Senior Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Metalab's technology team as a Technical Architect, contributing to the design and development of exciting products. You will leverage your expertise in modern technologies to architect, build, and launch products, collaborating with design, product, and engineering teams. Responsibilities include leading technical design, working with clients, and staying current with technological advancements. This role requires extensive full-stack experience, expertise in specific technologies, and strong communication skills. Remote candidates within specific time zones are welcome. The company values diversity and encourages applications from all backgrounds.

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

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