Engineering Manager
Blockskye
AWSCloudJavaScriptLaravelMySQLNode.jsPHPSDLCVue.js
Software Architect, PHP, Blockchain
Blockskye
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Illinois, Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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SeniorLead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudGraphQLJavaScriptKafkaLaravelMicroservicesMySQLNode.jsPHPRedis
About the role
- Hands-on coding solving complex problems
- Design and evolve the overall software architecture for Blockskye’s core platform, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance across services
- Collaborate with engineering leadership and product stakeholders to translate business goals into robust technical solutions
- Define and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and system design best practices across engineering teams
- Provide hands-on guidance and mentorship to developers during system design, implementation, and code reviews
- Lead architectural decision-making for major new initiatives, integrations, and platform enhancements
- Evaluate and select tools, frameworks, and third-party solutions aligned with business and technical requirements
- Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to ensure highly available, secure, and observable cloud-native systems (primarily in AWS)
- Create and maintain technical documentation for architecture diagrams, workflows, and system dependencies
- Contribute to system reliability and performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or architectural debt
- Participate in early-stage technical scoping and estimation for roadmap initiatives
- Drive the adoption of modern development practices such as microservices, event-driven architecture, and CI/CD
- Review and guide API design (REST, Webhooks, etc.) to ensure clean, consistent, and versioned interfaces across teams and external partners
- Help facilitate cross-team architectural alignment and knowledge sharing through regular design reviews and technical discussions
- Support compliance, security, and data governance requirements from an architectural perspective
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
- 8+ years of progressive experience in software development, including at least 2–3 years in an architecture or senior technical leadership role
- Deep expertise in backend development with modern frameworks such as Laravel/PHP and Node.js
- Strong understanding of software architecture patterns, including microservices, event-driven systems, and domain-driven design
- Demonstrated experience designing scalable, cloud-native systems, particularly on AWS (e.g., Lambda, RDS, S3, ECS/Fargate)
- Proficiency in designing and maintaining secure, maintainable, and well-documented RESTful APIs and system interfaces
- Strong working knowledge of databases, including MySQL and caching strategies (e.g., Redis), with experience in query optimization and data modeling
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry)
- Ability to translate business requirements into high-level system designs and detailed technical specifications
- Proven ability to mentor engineers, lead cross-functional technical discussions, and drive consensus
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with fluency in written and spoken English for remote collaboration
- Comfort operating in a remote-first, startup-to-scaleup environment with evolving systems and priorities
- A collaborative mindset and a strong sense of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement
- Bonus: Experience with blockchain technologies, smart contracts, or distributed ledger integrations
- Bonus: Background in travel, fintech, or enterprise SaaS platforms
- Bonus: Experience modernizing legacy systems or leading platform migrations
- Bonus: Familiarity with WebSockets, GraphQL, or message queue systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka)
Benefits
- Remote-first team
- Role open to East Coast candidates with preference for Greater Boston or Chicago
- Opportunity to work with blockchain technology
- Mentoring and leadership opportunities
- Equal opportunity employer
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
backend developmentLaravelPHPNode.jsmicroservicesevent-driven architectureRESTful APIsMySQLRedisCI/CD
Soft skills
mentorshipcross-functional collaborationcommunicationinterpersonal skillsownershipquality assurancecontinuous improvementtechnical leadershipproblem-solvingconsensus building
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Software Engineeringadvanced degree preferred
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