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# Technical Architect

- **Company:** Akaasa Technologies
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** ASP.NET, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Application Release Automation, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Software Code Optimization, DevOps, Microsoft Software, Netsuite, Productivity Software, Secure Coding, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Agentic-AI, Magento, Event Driven Architecture, Integration Frameworks, Microservices
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_8e9d05e8711620cd210eddb8feafbd9b

## About the Role

* 1. Commerce domain knowledge is a must - product catalog, cart, checkout, ordering, payments, and end-to-end customer journeys. QSR domain can be taught.
 * 2.Hands-on engineering is critical - must have designed/built custom commerce backends, APIs, and microservices. Exclude profiles primarily focused on packaged platform implementations (Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, NetSuite, etc.).
 * 3. Exclude anyone largely with Microsoft stack experience (Asp.Net, C#, Azure etc.), * 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with demonstrated expertise in large-scale system design, technical architecture, and cross-functional leadership across multiple technology domains.
 * Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), DevOps practices, and CI/CD automation.
 * Proven ability to design, scale, and optimize systems supporting millions of users.
 * Strong understanding of security engineering, compliance standards, and secure development practices.
 * Experience with mobile infrastructure, crash analytics, feature deployment frameworks, and release automation.
 * Expertise in integration platforms, vendor ecosystems, and enterprise workflow automation.
 * Experience using AI-assisted development, agentic software engineering, automation, or emerging developer productivity tools to improve how teams design, build, test, deploy, and operate software.
 * Strong background in monitoring, observability, event-driven systems, and operational analytics.
 * Spec-first practice - authors complete technical specifications and drives design reviews from written artifacts
 * Proven ability to take ownership of an existing codebase, standards set, and roadmap at speed
 * Proven ability to influence product strategy, investment decisions, technical direction, AI adoption, and business outcomes through credibility, clarity, sound judgement, and technical insight.
 * 7+ years of demonstrated track record of leading engineering initiatives with measurable business impact in a distributed environment (E-commerce OR QSR domain must have)