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Staff Architect
Location
New York
Posted
146 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Architect
Spreedly
• Architect for Scale and Reliability: Design and evolve core services and APIs to support high-throughput, low-latency payment processing at global scale. • Guide System Evolution: Define architecture blueprints for modernization (service decomposition, event-driven design, database scaling, and observability). • Technical Governance: Establish technical standards, review designs, and ensure consistency in architectural principles across teams. • Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with Product Management, SRE, and Security to balance speed, safety, and scalability in solution design. • Hands-On Leadership: Prototype and validate new patterns, tools, and infrastructure approaches that improve reliability and developer velocity. • Mentorship and Multiplication: Coach Staff and Senior Engineers to think systemically and make architectural decisions aligned to business and customer outcomes. • Performance and Observability: Partner with SRE to define SLOs/SLIs, optimize performance, and ensure end-to-end visibility across distributed systems. • Security and Compliance Mindset: Embed secure coding, data protection, and PCI DSS best practices into architectural design and decision-making.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing and operating production-grade systems at scale
- Experience working with mission-critical, high-availability platforms (e.g., payments, ad tech, telecom, large-scale SaaS).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous messaging, and data modeling
- Proven experience in modernizing monolithic applications into modular or service-oriented architectures
- Experience with Ruby and Node.js; exposure to Elixir or other functional programming languages is a plus.
- Expertise in PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, or equivalent distributed databases; experience with schema design and performance tuning
- Familiarity with Kafka, event-driven patterns, containerization, and AWS
- Strong communicator—able to align engineering, product, and leadership around complex trade-offs
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and influence cross-team decisions without direct authority
- Practical experience implementing observability frameworks, CI/CD improvements, and infrastructure-as-code patterns
Benefits
- Competitive salary + Equity
- Outstanding Medical and Dental benefits, including 100% employer-paid options
- Company-paid Life and Disability insurance
- Optional vision and supplemental insurance options, and various Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Open Paid Time Off policy + 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
- Matching 401(k) plan (5% up to $5,000 yearly)
- $1,000 annual professional development stipend
- Monthly home working/digital lifestyle stipend, new MacBook, and one-time accessory reimbursement
- Access to company-paid professional coaching service
- Visits to HQ in Durham, North Carolina for remote employees
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