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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Application Architect, Principal (Hybrid) - **Company:** RELEADY, LLC - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $176,800.0 - $197,600.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Applications Architecture, Application Integration Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Data Architecture, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Service Design, Software Engineering, Openapi, Cloud Platform System, Code Structure, Event Driven Architecture, Domain Driven Design, Api Management, Microservices - **Published:** October 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_b0c009e81 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree. * 10+ years of software engineering, application architecture, platform engineering, or related technical experience. * Experience leading application architecture for distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, microservices, internal platforms, or modernization initiatives. * Strong hands-on engineering background with the ability to guide service design, API contracts, code structure, data modeling, testing, deployment, and production tradeoffs. * Deep experience with domain-driven design, service decomposition, integration architecture, shared services, customer extensions, and reusable platform patterns. * Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate platform strategy into clear architecture direction and execution standards. * Experience designing and operating microservices and event-driven systems in a cloud environment. Azure experience is preferred; AWS or GCP experience is transferable. * Strong API and data architecture judgment, including REST, OpenAPI, event contracts, PostgreSQL, analytics handoffs, authorization, tenant/customer isolation, and auditability. * Experience mentoring senior engineers, architects, and technical leads. * Healthcare, payer, pharma, regulated-industry, SOC 2, HIPAA, or security-sensitive platform experience is strongly preferred. * Enterprise architecture experience is a plus, especially when paired with hands-on application architecture and delivery execution. * Excellent written communication. You can make architecture decisions clear, concise, and useful to the teams who need to execute them. ## Description * Define application architecture direction for major platform capabilities, reusable services, and cross-domain technical initiatives. * Lead architecture decisions for service decomposition, API ecosystems, event-driven workflows, vendor integrations, marketplace enablement, and shared platform capabilities. * Partner with senior engineering, product, security, infrastructure, operations, and business stakeholders to align architecture with platform strategy. * Drive build-vs-buy, integration consolidation, and modernization decisions that improve speed, scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability. * Stay hands-on enough to review designs, read code, evaluate pull requests when needed, reason through incidents, and help teams make concrete technical decisions. * Establish architecture standards and review practices that improve design quality, production readiness, security, observability, and operational ownership. * Resolve high-impact technical risks, cross-team dependencies, design conflicts, and complex platform tradeoffs. * Create reusable architecture frameworks, decision models, reference patterns, and AI-enabled guidance that improve engineering consistency. * Establish patterns for customer-isolated data boundaries, multi-tenant workflows, shared services, pharma workflows, partner integrations, and marketplace enablement across the platform. * Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leads to raise the quality of technical judgment, documentation, and architecture execution. * Document decisions and create patterns for AI tools and developers to operate efficiently: decision records, reference diagrams, API standards, service templates, AI skills, and architecture review notes. ## Related Videos - [Why make use of an integration platform in today's software developments and infrastructure?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/758-why-make-use-of-an-integration-platform-in-today-s-software-developments-and-infrastructure) - [Microservices: how to get started with Spring Boot and Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/242-microservices-how-to-get-started-with-spring-boot-and-kubernetes) - [Optimizing Discovery: PostgreSQL's Role in Transforming GetYourGuide's Search](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1647-optimizing-discovery-postgresql-s-role-in-transforming-getyourguide-s-search) - [For the REST of us: API First and Conway’s Law](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1932-for-the-rest-of-us-api-first-and-conway-s-law) - [Azure-Well Architected Framework - designing mission critical workloads in practice](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1529-azure-well-architected-framework-designing-mission-critical-workloads-in-practice) - [Cloud Chaos and Microservices Mayhem](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/104-cloud-chaos-and-microservices-mayhem) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)