Arionkoder
Product Development, Artificial Intelligence
StaffSoftwareArchitect
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“Staff Software Architect at Arionkoder. Skills: Software Architecture, AWS, Distributed Systems, AI Engineering. Own end-to-end architecture. Communicate architecture through C4 diagrams”
What You'll Achieve.
Create impressive digital products and solutions; Widen global reach; Make impact with products; Ship under reliability pressure; Convert systemic reliability issues into durable architectural improvements; Translate systemic issues into roadmap-level changes; Translate architecture into shippable increments
Industry & Context.
Trade-off analysis; Debugging a memory leak; Profiling a hot path; Rewriting an integration; Reasoning about cost, blast radius, and failure modes
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years building production distributed systems, 3 years in a Staff, Principal, or Architect role, Owning architectural decisions end-to-end, Communicating architecture through C4 models, Capturing decisions in ADRs, JavaScript/TypeScript fluency, Reading and contributing across multiple languages and stacks, Deep AWS architecture expertise, Designed and operated multi-tenant systems, Reasoning about cost, blast radius, and failure modes, Production experience with Infrastructure as Code, Fluent in modern CI/CD practice, Designed and owned pipelines, Deep GitHub fluency, Comfortable working in ambiguity, Defining contracts where none exist, Shipping under reliability pressure, C1 comfortable in fully distributed teams
Nice to Have
Hands-on production experience with at least one AI/LLM-powered system, Real understanding of retrieval, prompt/context design, cost, and failure modes, Experience integrating with at least three meaningful third-party platforms, AWS certifications at the Professional or Specialty level, Experience with progressive delivery patterns
What You'll Do.
Own end-to-end architecture
Communicate architecture through C4 diagrams
Author and curate ADRs
Set architectural guardrails
Make build/integrate decisions
Define and evolve canonical schema
Write production code
Prototype hard problems
and stabilize systems
Drive architecture for deployment
Lead response to reliability issues
Define access control model
Own incident postmortems
Translate systemic issues into changes
Partner with engineering leadership
Work with Product on feasibility
Represent architecture to customers
Use AI engineering tooling
Set team working patterns
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with product; Partner with engineering leadership; Work directly with Product; Mentor engineers; Represent product architecture to customers
Communication Scope
Communicate architecture clearly; Communicate architecture through C4 models; Writing for design clarity
Full Job Description
We are a leading Product Development, Artificial Intelligence, and Team Augmentation studio with our eyes set on the future that crafts better futures for humanity by relying on cutting-edge technology to create impressive digital products and solutions that widen your global reach. Our human-centric approach guides us every step of the way and we're proud of the impact our products make. We're hiring a Staff Software Architect to own the end-to-end design of a complex software product. The role spans the full architectural surface — data, services, integrations, infrastructure, security, reliability — and sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and the customer environments the product runs inside. The right person treats constraints like multi-tenancy, legacy interoperability, cost, and regulatory exposure as first-class design inputs, not afterthoughts. This is a hands-on architect role, not a diagrams-and-handoffs role — but diagrams and decision records are part of the job. You communicate architecture clearly through C4 models (context, container, component) and lightweight ADRs that capture decisions, context, and trade-offs so the team doesn't re-litigate them six months later. You also write code on critical paths, review designs and PRs, take ownership when the parts you designed misbehave in production, and push back when a feature request would compromise the architecture. You're equally comfortable working in the abstract (RFCs, system models, trade-off analysis) and in the concrete (debugging a memory leak, profiling a hot path, rewriting an integration that's silently drifting). You're comfortable in ambiguity. You can join a product mid-flight, form a sharp view of what's load-bearing and what's incidental, and propose a direction the team can rally behind. You treat AI-augmented engineering as a force multiplier you wield with judgment — neither a gimmick nor a substitute for thinking. Required Qualifications 10+ years building production
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