[Hiring] Software Architect & Team Lead @LanguageWire

Role Description

We are looking for a senior Software Architect who can set technical direction, lead through influence, and drive architecture decisions across the entire company. This role sits at the intersection of technology strategy, architecture excellence, and engineering leadership. You will work with senior engineers and engineering leaders across multiple teams and locations, shaping how we design, build, and evolve our platform.

The team you’ll be a part of

You will be part of our Technical Enablement Team and will work very closely with our Director of Engineering who is also defining a global reference architecture. The Technical Enablement Team will take part in all the strategically important changes and initiatives across our engineering group. This includes a mix of hands-on work when implementing new features, technologies or similar while keeping the strategic focus and aligning this across teams.

Responsibilities

• Owning architecture & technology direction
• Define and evolve the company-wide architecture and technology vision
• Establish clear architectural principles, standards, and reusable building blocks
• Drive adoption of these standards across teams through collaboration—not mandate
• Act as a key contributor to global reference architecture initiatives
• Leading and influencing at scale
• Guide and mentor 50+ engineers across multiple teams and tribes
• Support senior developers and tech leads in making sound architectural trade-offs
• Act as a trusted advisor for complex, cross-team initiatives
• Influence change without formal authority
• Enabling scalable execution
• Ensure successful execution of large, cross-team technical initiatives
• Improve platform scalability, stability, and maintainability
• Define pragmatic governance where needed, without slowing teams down
• Growing people and capabilities
• Assess technical and leadership skills of senior engineers
• Advise on learning, development, and training needs
• Support hiring of senior technical roles in collaboration with People & Culture

Success Metrics

• The team has understood the value of architecture analysis and has adopted a pragmatic architecture documentation framework
• Team can make autonomous architectural decisions that move our system forward
• All the major platform services have a comprehensive and consistent set of documentation
• Your consultancy knowledge is valuable for the rest of the teams
• You have contributed to a positive and enjoyable work atmosphere in the team

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing complex software solutions and delivering high-quality software systems, preferably SaaS services
• Proven architecture design & documentation experience
• Proven track record of re-architecting existing systems in a successful way
• Excellent knowledge of modern programming languages like C#, Python, Java
• Deep experience with REST APIs and documentation of REST endpoints
• Experience with Cloud Native development and microservices architectures
• DevOps experience: CI / CD, automated pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Containerization, Kubernetes
• Ability to drive change and influence without authority
• Excellent presentation and data visualization skills
• Fluent English (reading, writing, speaking)

Desired Experience and Competencies

• Very good knowledge of cloud platforms like Azure & GCP
• Experience with the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework is a plus
• Experience with AI-enabled development

Benefits

• Enjoy flat hierarchies, responsibility and freedom, direct feedback, and room to stand up for your own ideas
• Internal development opportunities, ongoing support from your People Partner, and an inclusive and fun company culture
• International company with 300 employees. Offices in multiple locations
• Full-time FlexiWire@home option for remote work
• Social get-togethers from Friday Bars to Summer or Christmas parties
• Private health insurance
• Working in an international environment—more than 20 different nationalities
• A dog friendly atmosphere
• Big kitchen with access to organic fruits, nuts and biscuits and coffee
• Social area and game room (foosball table, darts, and board games)
• Bike and car parking

Company Description

At LanguageWire, we want to wire the world together with language. We are fueled by the most advanced technology (AI) and our goal is to make customer's lives easier by simplifying their communication with any audience across the globe.