Software Architect
Pubblicato il 18-09-2026 - Jobgether in Italia
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Software Architect based in Italy.
This is a high-impact architecture role focused on shaping how a large, distributed engineering organization builds and evolves its platform. You will be the first dedicated Architect, providing cross-cutting technical direction without direct people management responsibilities. The role combines deep systems thinking with hands-on architectural work across distributed systems, APIs, data infrastructure, reliability, and scalability. You will partner with Staff and Lead Engineers while working closely with Engineering leadership to drive decisions across multiple teams. A key part of the role will be preparing the platform for continued growth, new products, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. You will also establish durable architecture practices, strengthen technical standards, and help teams move quickly while maintaining consistency and reliability.
Accountabilities:
- Build and maintain a comprehensive view of the platform architecture, including data flows, service boundaries, ownership areas, and dependencies, keeping the architecture current as the organization evolves.
- Identify systemic scalability, reliability, performance, and cost risks across the platform pipeline and drive architectural improvements before they become production incidents.
- Establish direction for API design and service patterns across REST APIs, SDKs, and MCP surfaces, ensuring consistent experiences across the platform.
- Shape the roadmap for foundational initiatives such as cell-based architecture, multi-region readiness, rate limiting, and feature flag infrastructure, while personally leading the most complex architectural designs.
- Act as a full-time technical leader across the engineering organization by setting priorities, driving architecture decisions to completion, maintaining decision records, and follo