- Company Name
- Optro
- Job Title
- Staff Software Engineer, Architecture (Remote Canada)
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Staff Software Engineer, Architecture
**Role Summary**
Lead the design, evolution, and delivery of large‑scale, cloud‑native systems across the organization. Own end‑to‑end architectural decisions, establish best practices, and mentor engineers. Drive adoption of AI‑powered tools, micro‑frontend architectures, and scalable, secure infrastructure.
**Expectations**
* Deliver complex, enterprise‑scale projects independently from concept to production.
* Influence cross‑functional teams, including product, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders, to align technical solutions with business strategy.
* Act as the primary technical advocate, communicating vision and design rationale to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
* Foster a culture of continuous improvement, quality, and knowledge sharing within the engineering organization.
**Key Responsibilities**
1. Own technical designs for distributed, cloud‑native, and service architectures.
2. Establish and evolve engineering best practices, guidelines, and standards for development, integration, testing, and deployment.
3. Lead cross‑functional collaboration to ensure consistent implementation of architecture and alignment with business goals.
4. Champion the adoption of new technologies (scalability, reliability, security) and make strategic decisions impacting the platform.
5. Drive large‑scale initiatives from conception through delivery with full ownership of outcomes.
6. Mentor engineers at all levels, promoting agentic coding practices and a knowledge‑sharing culture.
7. Oversee testing, debugging, optimization, and quality assurance of solutions.
8. Champion Agile practices and continuous process improvement.
9. Explore and innovate micro‑frontend frameworks for modular, scalable frontends.
10. Define and advance AI‑powered tools and workflows to accelerate development and improve code quality.
**Required Skills**
* 10+ years of experience building web‑based applications at scale.
* Deep proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, and Python.
* Extensive knowledge of SPA frameworks (Ember, React, Vue) and distributed system architecture.
* Hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
* Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and related tooling.
* Strong written and oral communication; ability to explain complex concepts to executives and peers.
* Leadership and mentoring experience across engineering teams.
* Demonstrated success driving architectural vision and technical consensus.
**Required Education & Certifications**
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (preferred).
* Professional certifications in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) or architecture (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect) are advantageous.