Platform Architect $200,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
We're looking for Platform Architects to design the foundations that other teams build on. You'll work on platform-level products where your API decisions, architectural patterns, and documentation shape how multiple teams develop.
Products you might work on:
- TimeBack: Educational platform powering Alpha School's 2-hour learning model (99th percentile test results)
- Incept: Content generation platform creating personalized educational content for multiple learning applications
- Crossover: AI-powered hiring platform processing tens of thousands of applicants monthly
- This is a design-heavy role: 50% writing specs, API contracts, and technical decisions; 30% implementing complex platform features; 20% reviewing and guiding others. You have technical authority over architectural decisions. After alignment with the team, your specs are mandatory.
Small team of strong peers, high ownership, no bureaucracy. You design it, you build it, you own it.
What you will be doing
- Writing specs before implementation begins
- Designing APIs with backward compatibility and extensibility
- Documenting Important Technical Decisions (ITDs) with rationale
- Building complex platform features
- Reviewing PRs for architectural consistency
What you will NOT be doing
- Heavy team leadership or people management
- Working on simple app-level products
- Sitting in endless meetings
- Pure architecture without implementation
Candidate requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience
- At least 2 years designing systems where other teams consumed your APIs or depended on your architectural decisions
- Track record of writing technical specs or technical decisions that others implemented
- Experience with AI tools in development workflow
Applying for a role? Here’s what to expect.
Crossover's skill assessment process combines innovative AI power with decades of human research, to take the guesswork, human bias, and pointless filters out of recruiting high-performing teams.
Chat-style
screening interview.
Cognitive 
aptitude test.
Prove real-world 
job skills.
Interview with the hiring manager.
Accept job offer.
Pass
proctored test.
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The Olympics of work
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Premium pay for premium talent
Over 50% of new hires double or triple their previous pay. Why? Because that’s what the best person in the world is worth.
Shortlist by skills, not bias
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