Software Architecture Lead at Normative, owning technical architecture and delivery on complex projects in regulated industries. Leading technical teams to build internal systems with a focus on AI - assisted development tools.
About the role
- Staff Engineer designing scalable, production-grade systems for technology consulting firm in Canada. Collaborating with clients and teams to deliver effective technical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the architecture of large, business-critical systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Lead the technical design of complex and ambiguous projects, defining clear system boundaries, tradeoffs, and implementation plans.
- Set and uphold technical standards that influence work across multiple teams.
- Tackle the hardest technical challenges in a project and surface risks early.
- Debug and resolve complex, cross-cutting issues across services, infrastructure, and data layers.
- Proactively identify systemic technical debt and lead efforts to reduce it.
- Make high-quality technical decisions by balancing delivery speed, cost, reliability, and long-term impact.
- Design, deploy, and operate cloud-native systems, primarily on GCP and AWS.
- Plan and implement infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support reliable, repeatable deployments.
- Ensure systems are observable, operable, and resilient in production environments.
- Continuously look for opportunities to simplify infrastructure and reduce operational overhead and cost.
- Set technical direction for backend systems by choosing the right language and architecture for the problem, with a focus on reliability, performance, and long-term ownership.
- Translate business goals into clear, durable system designs, defining service boundaries and API contracts that teams can evolve with confidence.
- Lead the design of data-intensive systems across ingestion, processing, storage, and serving, making explicit tradeoffs across scale, latency, cost, and correctness.
- Ensure systems are operable at scale through strong data contracts, observability, failure handling, and clear ownership.
- Work closely with clients to shape and refine technical solutions.
- Actively question and challenge requirements to uncover the real underlying problems.
- Propose alternative technical approaches when they better meet business goals or system constraints.
- Communicate technical designs clearly through written documentation, diagrams, and proofs of concept.
- Mentor and support other engineers through technical guidance, pairing, and reviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of complex production systems.
- Advanced proficiency in English, both verbal and written.
- Proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, C#, or Rust.
- Strong technical design skills, including the ability to design large systems from first principles.
- Strong understanding of backend systems, databases, and data modeling.
- Experience designing and operating REST and/or GraphQL APIs.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS & GCP).
- Experience with microservices, containerization (e.g. Docker), and enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform).
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction beyond a single team.
Benefits
- Flexible hours : We are a fully remote company. Work on your schedule–pick up the kids, go to the dentist–you decide when you work.
- Compensation : We offer a competitive salary and health benefits package, including a Wellness spending account.
- Continuous learning : Access a dedicated learning budget to deepen your expertise. Complete certification programs in GCP, AWS, and other technologies.
- Time off : It’s no secret we all have lives outside of work. Jet off to your favourite spot or just relax with flexible paid vacation days and sick days.
- Annual team retreat : Once a year, we meet in person to collaborate, reconnect, and reset.
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