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Software Architect (Remote Boston MA)
Job details
About this role
Role overview
Shape the architecture and delivery of software products spanning AI, simulation, and cloud-based systems. This senior, hands-on role sets technical direction across engineering initiatives, partners with product and research colleagues to turn ideas into production features, and helps engineers deliver reliable, scalable services.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, technical design, and execution planning for cross-team engineering work. - Define scalable system designs and shared engineering practices. - Translate product and research concepts into technical specifications, implementation plans, and delivery milestones. - Mentor engineers through design and code reviews, documentation, and collaborative programming. - Improve platform reliability, performance, observability, and scalability. - Contribute code to critical areas and improve infrastructure, developer experience, and deployment workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. - At least 10 years of experience building and scaling complex software systems. - Strong background in distributed systems and service-oriented architecture. - Fluency in Python, TypeScript, and SQL, with experience building APIs using gRPC and Protobuf. - Experience with Google Cloud, data modeling, performance optimization, and scalable design. - Familiarity with machine learning, including large language models, and experience building user interfaces with React. - Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and nontechnical teams.
Nice to have
Experience with infrastructure as code, CAD, graphics or physics simulation, domain-specific languages, production machine learning, or Kubernetes is useful. The listed stack also includes AWS, Next.js, Docker, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions, and Spinnaker.
Benefits and work setup
The listed annual salary range is $140,000–$190,000. The role title indicates remote work based in the Boston, Massachusetts area.