Facility Grid

Staff Engineer – Application Architect

Facility Grid

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Boston • Massachusetts • United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AngularDockerKubernetesLaravelPHPTypeScript

About the role

  • Own the application architecture across backend, frontend, and service layers
  • Evolve and maintain the layered patterns and conventions that govern the codebase
  • Drive API design decisions across versioned REST endpoints
  • Author and maintain Technical Design Documents for significant system changes
  • Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and technology adoption proposals
  • Establish and enforce coding standards, testing strategies, and review practices
  • Contribute production code in PHP/Laravel and TypeScript/Angular
  • Design data models, migrations, and schema evolution strategies
  • Architect integration patterns for external platforms and third-party APIs
  • Design frontend state management and data-intensive UI patterns
  • Optimize application performance across the full stack (caching, queues, CDN)
  • Collaborate with platform engineering on deployment architecture and container orchestration
  • Understand containerized build and CI/CD pipelines well enough to troubleshoot application-layer issues
  • Participate in infrastructure design reviews involving GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code
  • Contribute to observability strategy and application-level instrumentation
  • Mentor mid-level and senior engineers through code review, pairing, and design discussions
  • Raise the technical bar across the engineering organization
  • Translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and decomposed deliverables
  • Bridge communication between product, engineering, and infrastructure teams

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Deep expertise in PHP/Laravel
  • Strong experience with Angular or comparable TypeScript SPA frameworks
  • Proven track record of designing and evolving application architectures at scale across multiple teams
  • Experience with relational database design, query optimization, and migration management
  • Familiarity with RESTful API design, OAuth2 authentication flows, and multi-tenant SaaS patterns
  • Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
  • Strong written communication
  • Willingness to use AI-based development tools as a core part of your workflow
Benefits
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Opportunity for advancement
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance
  • Wellness resources
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Hard Skills & Tools
PHPLaravelTypeScriptAngularRESTful API designrelational database designquery optimizationmigration managementcontainerized deploymentsOAuth2 authentication
Soft Skills
strong written communicationmentoringcollaborationtechnical leadershipcode reviewdesign discussionstranslating business requirementscommunication between teams