Chief Architect

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As a Lusha employee, you’ll empower B2B sales professionals globally to unlock lucrative revenue opportunities and drive sustainable growth. With over 1 million users and a database of 200+ million entries, your contributions will directly impact our customers, revolutionizing the way they approach sales and positioning them for long-term success in a competitive marketplace. With 40,000 new signups benefiting from our dynamic platform each month, your role is crucial in continuing to enhance and expand our offerings. You’ll help deliver exceptional value to our growing user community, ensuring they have the best tools at their disposal to succeed in a competitive marketplace.

We’re looking for a Chief Architect with a hands-on, technical leadership role to drive the architecture, design, and implementation of our next-generation platforms. You will be responsible for shaping the technical vision and architectural direction for our products while ensuring that we build scalable, resilient, and high-performance systems to support Lusha’s rapid growth.

Where does this role fit in our vision?

Every role at our company is designed with a clear purpose—to integrate collective efforts into our shared success, functioning as pieces of a collective brain. As a key leader within our engineering organization, you will collaborate with senior leadership and technical teams to define and execute the strategic architecture initiatives. You'll play a pivotal role in mentoring engineers, advancing core technologies, and driving architectural standards across the organization. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, a passion for innovative solutions, and a commitment to hands-on leadership in crafting and evolving our software systems.

How you’ll shape the future of B2B sales

As B2B sales continue to evolve with the integration of AI-driven automation, data intelligence, and scalable cloud platforms, you will be at the forefront of designing the next-generation systems that power cutting-edge sales technologies. Your leadership will be crucial in developing the architecture that supports high-scale, high-performance applications that enable GTM organizations to thrive.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and drive architecture across all technical domains, ensuring high standards for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Lead the Tech-Leads Guild and the Architects team. 
• Design and implement architectural frameworks for large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems, ensuring the adoption of industry best practices.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and senior leadership to align technical strategies with business goals, ensuring that we are building the right solutions to accelerate our platform and data products.
• Lead by example in hands-on design, coding, and technical problem-solving, especially in complex or high-risk areas.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools, and integrate them into the architecture as needed.
• Establish and champion engineering best practices, including software design patterns, code quality, CI/CD pipelines, and testing methodologies.
• Drive the continuous improvement of our software architecture, evolving it as the business grows and new challenges arise.
• Develop and maintain key technical documentation, design specifications, and roadmaps to guide engineering efforts.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation within the engineering organization.

Requirements

Here’s what we need from you:

• Extensive experience designing and implementing distributed, high-scale backend systems for SaaS products.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP), with a focus on micro services, event-driven design, and highly scalable distributed systems.
• Proficiency in a range of modern programming languages and frameworks: .NET, Node.js, Golang, Python, and modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Redux).
• Expertise in designing APIs (RESTful, GraphQL) and data models for both NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices (CI/CD, containerization with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) and the software development lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS, and event sourcing.
• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and how they can be applied within large-scale platforms - is a plus.
• Experience in leading, mentoring, and coaching engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence.
• Exceptional communication skills in both technical and non-technical contexts.

What makes you an ideal candidate:

• You thrive in high-stakes, fast-moving environments and enjoy balancing strategic leadership with hands-on engineering work.
• You are an advocate for best practices in system design, security, and scalability, with a passion for mentoring and developing talent.
• You excel in creating and evolving technical roadmaps that balance business requirements with cutting-edge architectural solutions.
• You are driven by the challenge of building resilient, scalable, and performant systems that power real-world applications.

How will you innovate? How will you learn? 

As a growth-stage company constantly evolving, you'll find opportunities to tackle unique projects and initiatives, all while being part of a thriving company that has evolved from its startup roots. You'll play a crucial role in our journey, with plenty of room to grow professionally. And as we move forward, you'll have a stake in our success, sharing in the rewards as we expand and innovate together, continuously learning along the way.

Why Lusha? It’s simple

Established in 2016 by Assaf Eisenstein and Yoni Tserruya, Lusha's dream is to revolutionize the B2B sales landscape. With significant investments totaling $240 million, we've transitioned from our bootstrap origins to unicorn status with a value estimation of $1.5 billion. This journey reflects our unwavering commitment to innovation and excellence as we continuously set new standards in the industry. Trusted by industry giants like Zendesk, Google, and Yotpo, Lusha is the go-to resource for sales intelligence, having started as a profitable bootstrap company and survived solely on profits for 4.5 years. Join us and experience a career journey as distinct and dynamic as you are.