Principal Software Architect, Api (Saas)

TL;DR

Principal Software Architect, API (SaaS): Responsible for the core platform architecture that underpins R365’s products, driving the design for shared platform services. Focus on designing a scalable marketplace ecosystem that enables partners, developers, and product teams to safely extend and innovate on the platform through well-defined APIs and extension models.

Location: Remote

Salary: $190,000-$285,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a SaaS company disrupting the restaurant industry with a cloud-based platform for accounting and back-office operations.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the end-to-end architecture for core Platform services, including identity, permissions, workflow, integration, and shared domain capabilities.
• Shape and advance the platform’s marketplace and extensibility architecture, including API exposure patterns, eventing and webhook models, app/extension sandboxing, and partner integration approaches.
• Lead platform-focused architecture reviews and technical governance, ensuring consistency with enterprise architecture and long-term strategy.
• Drive modernization of legacy components into well-defined platform services and extension points.
• Anticipate platform-level risks and design long-term solutions that prevent systemic issues.
• Mentor architects and principal engineers across product lines, raising architectural maturity and promoting shared platform and marketplace patterns and practices.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 14+ years of engineering experience, including significant experience with large-scale, distributed systems and platform architecture.
• Proven leadership in architecture, standards, and cross-functional collaboration across multiple teams and domains.
• Recognized expertise in multiple domains such as identity and access management, permissions models, workflow/orchestration, integrations/APIs, and data-intensive services.
• Experienced designing or evolving extensible platforms or marketplaces (e.g., APIs, extensions, partner integrations, or app ecosystems) is strongly preferred.
• Mastery of system design, architectural patterns, and tradeoff analysis, including scalability, reliability, performance, security, and cost optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits, 100% paid for employee
• 401k + matching
• Equity Option Grant
• Unlimited PTO + Company holidays
• Wellness initiatives