Software Architect (Remote)

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Hiring Company: ION Water

One-liner: Ion transforms the way water costs are controlled through affordable housing's only End-to-End Water Management solution.

Salary: $150K/yr - $175K/yr

Why Join Us:

Role Responsibilities

• Set and document architecture direction for the Ion platform

• Build and ship production backend code, primarily in TypeScript and Node.js

• Review pull requests and raise the quality bar across the engineering team

• Make practical build-versus-buy and storage decisions based on scale, reliability, maintainability, and cost

• Lead technical design for new platform capabilities, partner integrations, and data products

• Improve testing, observability, code review, deployment discipline, and operational maturity

• Partner closely with Product, Operations, Sales, and the CTO to turn business requirements into technical plans

• Mentor engineers and help a distributed team make better architecture decisions without creating unnecessary process

Qualitications

Required

• 5+ years building production backend, platform, data, or cloud systems

• 3+ years in a senior technical role such as Software Architect, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or hands-on Engineering Lead

• Strong experience designing event-driven, distributed, or streaming systems that handle high-volume data

• Deep AWS experience, especially with serverless, messaging, storage, security, and infrastructure-as-code

• Strong TypeScript/Node.js experience, or comparable backend depth with the ability to become productive in TypeScript quickly

• Experience designing reliable data models and working with relational, time-series, analytical, or large-scale operational data stores

• Experience with React / Next.js

• Strong understanding of idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, ordering, backfills, monitoring, and incident response

• Track record of owning production systems where correctness, reliability, and operational visibility matter

• Ability to lead architecture discussions, make clear technical decisions, and hold a high quality bar across a remote team

Preferred

• MQTT or other device/IoT telemetry experience at meaningful scale

• TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, or similar time-series database experience

• Data reconciliation experience, especially comparing internal systems against an external source of truth

• Experience with utility, energy, water, building operations, billing, or other telemetry-heavy domains

• Experience with anomaly detection, signal processing, or time-series analytics

• Hands-on experience with S3-based analytics, Athena, Glue, Parquet, or similar lake/lakehouse patterns

• Experience with Docker, ECS/Fargate, ECR, and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience mentoring distributed engineering teams and improving engineering process without adding unnecessary bureaucracy