Architect – Engineering Lead

• Assess the current system, including codebase, data model, infrastructure, and dependencies, and produce a prioritized written architecture assessment
• Define the target architecture, including service boundaries, data flow, integration points, and migration path
• Make and document technology decisions with explicit tradeoffs and reversibility considerations
• Establish engineering standards for code review, testing, branching, releases, and definition of done
• Write production code on critical-path and high-risk areas
• Review team work and maintain quality standards
• Own the deployment pipeline and release process during the engagement
• Lead contract and/or in-house engineers, including assigning, sequencing, and tracking work
• Run team operating rhythms such as standups, planning, and retrospectives
• Mentor engineers and improve the team's ability to maintain the system
• Own delivery plans, estimates, sequencing, dependencies, and critical path
• Report weekly status to leadership, including shipped work, delays, risks, and decisions needed
• Raise scope, timeline, and resourcing risks early with options
• Translate technical constraints and business tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders
• Deliver architecture documents, delivery plans, architecture decision records, production-deployed software, engineering standards, weekly status reports, and a handoff package with documentation and operational guidance
• Report to the project lead as the single technical point of accountability

• 5+ years of development and project management experience
• Experience owning delivery timelines and delivering projects against dates
• Experience leading engineers day to day, including assigning work, reviewing work, unblocking people, and addressing performance or schedule issues
• Production experience building and maintaining backend services with Python
• Production experience with TypeScript on the frontend and/or in Node services
• Fluency in writing, reading, and optimizing SQL queries
• Comfort reasoning about schema design and query performance
• Experience designing APIs consumed by other teams or customers
• Nice to have: domain experience in medical software and/or e-commerce
• Nice to have: familiarity with HIPAA, PCI, or other regulatory and privacy constraints
• Nice to have: cloud infrastructure experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure, including CI/CD and managed databases
• Nice to have: prior contract or consulting work with end-to-end scope ownership and independent delivery

• Contract engagement
• Remote work arrangement