Solution Architect (Remote - Work from Anywhere)
8.0/10
Xapo61
$150,000 – $250,000 USD
Remote
mid
8 days ago
aicryptodevfintechweb3Cloud-native architectureArchitectural governanceCI/CD practicesDistributed systemsAutomated testingDomain-Driven DesignMicroservices
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Description
What you'll do
- •Own and facilitate the Architectural Advice Forum (AAF), driving decentralised decision-making that is captured as ADRs.
- •Personally build production-grade Proofs of Concept to de-risk new patterns, validate architectural ideas and demonstrate “what good looks like” ahead of broader adoption.
- •Partner with the CTO on Xapo’s AI strategy, identifying high-value opportunities, evaluating tooling, prototyping solutions and helping engineering teams adopt AI responsibly across the SDLC and our customer-facing products.
- •Own cross-cutting standardisation across backend, web and mobile engineering, patterns, paradigms, observability, security, testing and delivery.
- •Define and uphold the engineering quality bar across backend, web and mobile.
- •Embed Security-First Architecture across everything we build.
- •Champion Domain-Driven Design and Event-Driven Architecture.
- •Work closely with the SRE team on reliability, capacity, incident response, observability and the evolution of our internal developer platform.
- •Coach and mentor engineers across SATs, platform and enabling teams.
- •Surface and unblock systemic technical risks, technical debt and cross-team dependencies before they hit production.
- •Maintain Xapo’s engineering principles and Tech Radar.
Conditions
- •Impact Globally, Work Remotely.
- •Great work-life balance with flexible PTO.
- •Collaborate, learn, and grow with a high-performance team.
- •Yearly budget for individual learning and development goals.
Requirements
- •10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an Architect, Staff or equivalent senior-IC role.
- •A strong track record as a hands-on engineer-turned-architect.
- •Deep experience designing, building and operating distributed, event-driven systems in production.
- •Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design.
- •Practical familiarity with decentralised architectural governance.
- •Demonstrated ability to lead by influence rather than authority.
- •Experience working in regulated fintech, payments or banking environments.
- •Deep experience designing security-first architectures.
- •A strong perspective on modern AI/ML, LLMs, agents and applied AI in production.
- •Excellent written and verbal communication.
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