Senior Staff Architect

Summary

Join Riverside Insights as a Sr. Staff Architect to lead the design of scalable and maintainable solutions for a low-cost assessment platform. Drive architectural consistency, maintain system uptime, and lead strategic technology progression. Facilitate architectural reviews, identify trade-offs, and guide critical project delivery. Support recovery initiatives and ensure cohesive execution among engineering teams. Shape the future of engineering practices and platforms, championing tools and processes that deliver real value. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the company's mission of empowering learners and educators.

Requirements

• Experience with technical oversight/responsibility across multiple teams and technologies in an organization – as an architect, director, or senior/principal staff
• Mastery of native AWS service development using serverless, distributed, event-driven, and cost-effective scalable techniques, including usage of Python, .NET Core, node.js/Typescript, and Terraform
• Prior experience leading iterative cloud transformations of legacy monolithic software into native AWS implementations
• Mastery in areas of legacy technology, to lead their improvement and/or adaptation in AWS, including .NET Framework, Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle, and MFC
• A DevOps-focused mindset of designing services that are observable, independently testable, scalable, and high-quality
• Strong communication skills and can clearly and concisely set expectations and provide direct feedback as needed

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural consistency across engineering projects, promoting simplicity and robust design
• Maintain system uptime and ensure zero critical software or DevOps incidents through high-quality solutions and resilient systems
• Lead strategic technology progression across the stack and align technical execution with product goals on a quarterly basis
• Facilitate architectural reviews and collaboration among Staff Engineers and technical leaders to ensure cohesive execution
• Identify trade-offs and escalate decisions to balance quality, scope, and delivery timelines effectively
• Guide and assist in delivering critical projects around district-wide rostering and proctored assessments, research-driven scoring, and data integrations
• Support high-priority recovery and repair initiatives to reduce support tickets and enhance platform stability

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance
• Company paid short-term and long-term disability
• Supplemental life insurance options
• Company paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Retirement plan with discretionary company matching
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
• Premium subscription to Calm for employee and dependents
• Company paid time off (PTO)
• 13 named holidays, 2 floating holidays, and 4 early-release half days
• Quarterly Focus Days
• Flexible work arrangements
• Work-from-home expense reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Company orientation and 30/60/90 Day Onboarding