Senior Solutions Architect

We are open to remote candidates located within CST to BRT time zones.

At Metalab we design pretty exciting products but the architecture and building are where you come in. Our technology team needs your help in conceiving new ideas with technology and bringing our products across the finish line for our clients to enjoy in the wild.

To thrive in this role you’ll provide technical expertise and guidance on projects stay on top of new technologies and tools solve big architectural challenges analyze best solutions and show up ready for anything.  You collaborate with our design product and engineering teams to find relatable new ways to use technology help others work within technical limits and build products that improve people’s lives. You will also lead the technical design of many behind-the-scenes systems and processes that our products depend on to run reliably at scale.

You build trust with clients and your teams in choosing the right technologies and approaches for their products. The magic happens when you combine thoughtful collaboration strong processes and the freedom for people to be themselves. When you’re comfortable being yourself you do your best work and inspire others to do the same.

What you’ll do

• Architect build and launch amazing products to market

• Stay up to date with the latest trends in technology tools platforms and best practices needed to build scalable high-performant products

• Collaborate with our talented design and product teams to ideate concept validate and develop new products and features

• Lead and perform discovery on new projects working directly with client stakeholders and our team to facilitate deep understanding documentation and assessment of existing systems constraints risks and new solution opportunities

• Define and document the technical and cloud architecture of a product its supporting services and the underlying infrastructure and help plan development cycles or sprints to deliver applications in production

• Provide an informed point-of-view on software engineering tools and technologies and design technical solutions that internal and client teams understand and are excited to work on

• Architect and release production applications with global scalability availability and performance as a requirement

• Code and review code for quality correctness consistency and performance

• Work with other vendors to document and deliver desired architecture and cloud configuration specifications on an ongoing basis

• Meet clients and participate in shares and workshops with the client stakeholders on technical architecture cloud architecture and project progress

Requirements

• 6+ years of full-stack experience as a contributing engineer or engineering leader with expertise in modern technologies such as React Typescript Node.js and/or Python

• 2+ years experience operating as a Technical Architect

• You can articulate engineering solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders using oral written and visual communications

• You can produce diagrams and documentation that reflect architectural decisions patterns and principals

• You work well in a team with designers engineers and product managers on defining a product and its future roadmap

• You have experience developing frontend client applications using React and/or React Native

• You have experience developing REST and GraphQL APIs

• You have experience designing API schemas data models and database architecture

• You have DevOps experience implementing testing and automating the configuration and deployment of service infrastructure using tools like Terraform with cloud providers like AWS GCP and Azure

• You’re always learning and invested in keeping up to date with advances in technology

• You have an appreciation of design and user experience

Nice to haves

• Experience using ML models and AI services to power real-life products (ie. Google Cloud AI Azure AI AWS AI or Bedrock GPT Dialogflow Claude LangChain)

• Experience with public speaking and writing

• Experience in an agency consulting setting