Spreedly · 4 hours ago
Staff Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years expSpreedly is the world's leading Open Payments Platform, focused on optimizing digital transactions through their comprehensive payment services marketplace. The Staff Architect will be responsible for designing and governing Spreedly’s core technical architecture, ensuring scalability and reliability while collaborating with various teams to enhance system design and developer experience.
E-CommerceFinTechMobile PaymentsPaymentsSoftware
No H1B
Responsibilities
Design and evolve core services and APIs to support high-throughput, low-latency payment processing at global scale
Define architecture blueprints for modernization (service decomposition, event-driven design, database scaling, and observability)
Establish technical standards, review designs, and ensure consistency in architectural principles across teams
Collaborate with Product Management, SRE, and Security to balance speed, safety, and scalability in solution design
Prototype and validate new patterns, tools, and infrastructure approaches that improve reliability and developer velocity
Coach Staff and Senior Engineers to think systemically and make architectural decisions aligned to business and customer outcomes
Partner with SRE to define SLOs/SLIs, optimize performance, and ensure end-to-end visibility across distributed systems
Embed secure coding, data protection, and PCI DSS best practices into architectural design and decision-making
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience designing and operating production-grade systems at scale
Experience working with mission-critical, high-availability platforms (e.g., payments, ad tech, telecom, large-scale SaaS)
Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous messaging, and data modeling
Proven experience in modernizing monolithic applications into modular or service-oriented architectures
Experience with Ruby and Node.js; exposure to Elixir or other functional programming languages is a plus
Expertise in PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, or equivalent distributed databases; experience with schema design and performance tuning
Familiarity with Kafka, event-driven patterns, containerization, and AWS
Strong communicator—able to align engineering, product, and leadership around complex trade-offs
Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and influence cross-team decisions without direct authority
Practical experience implementing observability frameworks, CI/CD improvements, and infrastructure-as-code patterns
Preferred
Prior exposure to global-scale infrastructure challenges (multi-region architecture, resiliency patterns, throughput optimization)
Certifications in Cloud Architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Strong grounding in SDLC maturity, testing automation, and change management best practices
Ability to connect technical design to measurable business outcomes
Benefits
Outstanding Medical and Dental benefits, including 100% employer-paid options
Company-paid Life and Disability insurance
Optional vision and supplemental insurance options, and various Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Open Paid Time Off policy + 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
Matching 401(k) plan (5% up to $5,000 yearly)
$1,000 annual professional development stipend
Monthly home working/digital lifestyle stipend, new MacBook, and one-time accessory reimbursement
Access to company-paid professional coaching service
Visits to HQ in Durham, North Carolina for remote employees
Company
Spreedly
Spreedly's open payments platform enables access to the global consumer, processing more than $60B GMV annually in more than 100 countries.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$81.07MKey Investors
Spectrum EquityE-Merge
2019-11-13Private Equity· $75M
2016-02-11Series A· $3M
2015-01-22Seed· $0.9M
Leadership Team
Justin Benson
CEO
Nellie Vail
Chief Financial Officer
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