Technical Architect

Akaasa Technologies; Illinois; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Akaasa Technologies seeks a Technical Architect to lead design and implementation of large-scale, end-to-end commerce and backend systems. This onsite role requires deep cloud and security expertise and the ability to drive architecture decisions across teams in a fast-moving environment.

You will own the tech direction for complex commerce platforms, collaborate with engineers and product teams, and influence roadmap while delivering robust, scalable solutions in an on-site setup across

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience with design, architecture, and cross-functional leadership.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), DevOps practices, and CI/CD automation.
• Proven ability to design, scale, and optimize systems serving millions of users.
• Strong understanding of security engineering, compliance standards, and secure development practices.
• Experience with mobile infrastructure, crash analytics, release automation, and feature deployment frameworks.
• Expertise in integration platforms, vendor ecosystems, and enterprise workflow automation.
• Experience with AI-assisted development, automation, and developer productivity tools.
• Strong background in monitoring, observability, event-driven systems, and operational analytics.

Skills

Commerce domain

Hands-on engineering

Non-Microsoft stack

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Position: Technical Architect(Onsite)

Location: Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL & NYC, NY

Must have skills:

• 1. Commerce domain knowledge is a must - product catalog, cart, checkout, ordering, payments, and end-to-end customer journeys. QSR domain can be taught.
• 2.Hands-on engineering is critical - must have designed/built custom commerce backends, APIs, and microservices. Exclude profiles primarily focused on packaged platform implementations (Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, NetSuite, etc.).
• 3. Exclude anyone largely with Microsoft stack experience (Asp.Net, C#, Azure etc.)

Required Qualifications Technical Expertise

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with demonstrated expertise in large-scale system design, technical architecture, and cross-functional leadership across multiple technology domains.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), DevOps practices, and CI/CD automation.
• Proven ability to design, scale, and optimize systems supporting millions of users.
• Strong understanding of security engineering, compliance standards, and secure development practices.
• Experience with mobile infrastructure, crash analytics, feature deployment frameworks, and release automation.
• Expertise in integration platforms, vendor ecosystems, and enterprise workflow automation.
• Experience using AI-assisted development, agentic software engineering, automation, or emerging developer productivity tools to improve how teams design, build, test, deploy, and operate software.
• Strong background in monitoring, observability, event-driven systems, and operational analytics.
• Spec-first practice - authors complete technical specifications and drives design reviews from written artifacts
• Proven ability to take ownership of an existing codebase, standards set, and roadmap at speed
• Proven ability to influence product strategy, investment decisions, technical direction, AI adoption, and business outcomes through credibility, clarity, sound judgement, and technical insight.
• 7+ years of demonstrated track record of leading engineering initiatives with measurable business impact in a distributed environment (E-commerce OR QSR domain must have)