Principal Software Architect

• Define and carry the long-term technical vision of OpenAEV alongside the CTO
• Set architecture standards and ensure technical coherence across all teams
• Arbitrate key technical decisions with a focus on scalability, resilience, and maintainability
• Prototype, explore and validate next iterations to drive innovation and support growth
• Mentor and guide Staff Engineers, ensuring alignment and consistency across engineering initiatives
• Balance delivery and technical excellence, challenging roadmaps to keep the right pace between features, debt, and innovation
• Represent the engineering vision across teams and functions (Product, Ops, Business)

• 10+ years of experience building and scaling complex, distributed systems
• Proven impact defining technical strategy and architecture for platforms or large systems
• Strong system design skills (scalability, performance, security, observability)
• Hands‑on when it matters: prototyping, validating technologies, reviewing critical PRs
• Excellent judgment balancing delivery speed with long‑term sustainability and cost
• Comfortable working remote in an async‑first culture
• clear written and verbal communication in English
• Technical ecosystem you can thrive in: Java/Spring, TypeScript/React, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
• CI/CD (Drone, GitHub Actions)
• observability (Grafana, GitHub)
• Autonomy, ownership, and a collaborative mindset
• enables others rather than becoming a bottleneck

Rust/Python, open‑source contributions/maintainership, cybersecurity domain knowledge, data migrations and feature‑flagged rollouts

• Competitive pay + equity
• Remote-first, flexible, and balanced work
• Your setup, your choice — pick the gear that works for you