
Solutions Architect – LATAM
TrackStreet
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $100,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGraphQLLaravelMicroservicesMySQLNoSQLPHPPostgresSQL
About the role
- Collaborate with product and engineering to design end-to-end solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements (scalability, performance, security, reliability, cost).
- Define and maintain system architecture, including service boundaries, data flows, integration patterns, and API design.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, architecture diagrams, ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) and implementation roadmaps.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams (code/design reviews, best practices, standards).
- Evaluate and select technologies, tools, and frameworks; create reference implementations and proofs of concept.
- Design and oversee data models, storage strategies, and database schemas (SQL and NoSQL).
- Work with DevOps/Infra teams to define cloud and on-prem architectures (AWS preferred, plus bare-metal where appropriate).
- Ensure architectures adhere to security, compliance, and reliability standards.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across application and infrastructure layers.
- Contribute to and maintain architecture documentation, guidelines, and playbooks.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on architecture and system design thinking.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience building web applications with PHP, including Laravel (or closely related frameworks).
- Strong expertise in system design and distributed systems: scalability, availability, fault tolerance, and observability.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) and bare-metal/on‑prem setups: Compute, storage, networking, IAM/security, monitoring, and cost optimization.
- Strong experience with databases: SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and at least one NoSQL technology.
- Data modeling, indexing, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Experience designing and integrating APIs (REST and/or GraphQL), including authentication and authorization patterns.
- 3+ years in a formal Architecture or Technical Leadership role (e.g., Solutions Architect, Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer), driving technical decisions across teams or large projects.
- Solid understanding of: Software architecture patterns (e.g., modular monolith, microservices, event-driven).
- Caching, message queues, and asynchronous processing.
- CI/CD, version control (Git), and modern development workflows.
- Strong communication skills: able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO, with a culture that genuinely encourages time off.
- Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly environment.
- Competitive salary, tailored to your experience and impact.
- Opportunity to shape the architecture and technical direction of core products.
- A collaborative environment with autonomy, ownership, and room to grow into broader architectural or leadership responsibilities.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
PHPLaravelsystem designdistributed systemscloud infrastructureAWSSQLNoSQLAPI designdata modeling
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcommunication