Staff 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 are seeking Platform Architects to establish the foundational systems upon which other teams construct their solutions. Your work will focus on platform-tier products where the APIs you define, the architectural patterns you select, and the documentation you produce will influence how numerous teams develop their applications.
Example products in scope:
- TimeBack: An educational platform that drives Alpha School's 2-hour learning methodology (achieving 99th percentile test outcomes)
- Incept: A content generation platform that produces tailored educational material for diverse learning applications
- Crossover: An AI-driven hiring platform that handles tens of thousands of candidate applications each month
- This role is design-intensive: you will allocate 50% of your time to authoring specifications, API contracts, and technical decisions; 30% to developing sophisticated platform capabilities; and 20% to reviewing code and providing architectural guidance. You hold technical authority over architectural choices. Once alignment is reached with the team, your specifications become binding.
A compact team of capable peers, substantial ownership, and minimal bureaucracy. You design, you implement, you maintain.
What you will be doing
- Authoring specifications prior to implementation kickoff
- Creating APIs with a focus on backward compatibility and future extensibility
- Recording Important Technical Decisions (ITDs) along with their justifications
- Developing sophisticated platform capabilities
- Conducting pull request reviews to ensure architectural alignment
What you will NOT be doing
- Extensive team leadership or personnel management duties
- Engagement with straightforward application-level products
- Spending time in continuous meetings
- Theoretical architecture work divorced from hands-on implementation
Candidate requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience
- A minimum of 2 years designing systems in which other teams integrated your APIs or relied upon your architectural choices
- Demonstrated history of producing technical specifications or technical decisions that were executed by others
- Practical experience incorporating AI tools into your development process
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