Solution Architect
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Xapo BankFintech Crypto Banking
Work from anywhere!, CET-compatible timezoneFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an Architect, Staff or equivalent senior-IC role.
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonCI/CDMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- 3+ years in an Architect, Staff, or equivalent senior-IC role.
- Hands-on experience reading, writing, and reviewing production code.
- Deep experience designing, building, and operating distributed, event-driven systems.
- Strong knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (strategic and tactical patterns).
- Practical familiarity with decentralized architectural governance (RFCs, ADRs).
- Experience in regulated fintech, payments, or banking.
- Deep experience in security-first architectures, threat modeling, and identity/secret management.
- Strong perspective on applied AI/ML, LLMs, and agents in production.
- Proficiency with cloud-native architecture, microservices, and container-based 12-factor apps.
- Strong CI/CD and automated testing (unit, service, end-to-end) practices.
- Reliable high-speed internet and dedicated workspace.
Responsibilities
- Own and facilitate the Architectural Advice Forum (AAF), driving decentralized decision-making captured as ADRs.
- Build production-grade Proofs of Concept to de-risk new patterns and validate architectural ideas.
- Partner with the CTO on AI strategy, prototyping solutions and helping teams adopt AI responsibly.
- Drive cross-cutting standardization across backend, web, and mobile engineering to ensure quality and velocity scale.
- Define and uphold engineering quality bars, including security, performance, and production-readiness.
- Implement Security-First Architecture, including threat modeling and defense-in-depth patterns.
- Champion Domain-Driven Design and Event-Driven Architecture.
- Collaborate with SRE on reliability, incident response, and developer platform evolution.
- Coach and mentor engineers across all team types, leading through inspiration rather than authority.
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