Principal Architect

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🕒 October 8

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏛️ Architect

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Granum

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

🔌 API

👥 B2C

☁️ SaaS

API • B2C • SaaS

Granum is an online image hosting and sharing service that lets users upload, organize, and embed images and albums. It supports drag-and-drop uploads, direct image links, BBCode/HTML embed codes, configurable auto-delete timers, and a freemium/Pro subscription with higher limits and API access. The platform emphasizes easy sharing, multilingual support, and simple account management with privacy controls and terms of service.

📋 Description

• Lead Granum's Architecture team and drive development of the technical roadmap • Serve as a hands-on player/coach, leading a small team of architects while working in the code • Report to the CTO and collaborate with Platforms, Product, and feature-pod leaders • Drive application and system architecture across Granum's product portfolio • Plan and develop platform upgrade tooling and processes for Angular, .NET, and shared libraries • Reduce technical debt spanning teams and provide a stable, secure, scalable foundation for feature teams • Execute the technical roadmap by sequencing visible work and identifying cross-team dependencies during quarterly planning • Define architectural standards, guardrails, component patterns, and testing expectations • Plan and coordinate major technology upgrades and evaluate new technologies • Establish deployment patterns and shared CI/CD guidance • Guide application security, identity and access, and API exposure and security • Define how humans and coding agents interact in the AI-native development process • Lead, grow, and set the operating rhythm for the Architecture Pod • Make architecture legible to engineers and coding agents through clear patterns, context, and documentation

🎯 Requirements

• Track record as a hands-on architect leading the architecture of a non-trivial, production SaaS platform • Experience driving a real codebase from its current state to its target architecture • Ability to read and write code credibly • Deep .NET experience, including modernizing legacy .NET Framework systems • Experience with systems and integration architecture, including integrations, data flow, and deployment topology • Knowledge of API architecture, including exposing, securing, versioning, and evolving APIs without breaking dependent users • Security-first understanding of authentication, access, and API exposure • Systems thinking and pragmatism; preference for well-understood technology and community solutions over bespoke builds • Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic coding tools as a primary development mode • Experience working closely with product managers and tying technical decisions to customer outcomes • Leadership experience setting direction, growing people, providing feedback, unblocking engineers, and running a healthy team rhythm • Angular, Azure, and AWS experience is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• In the U.S., comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with multiple plan options • HSA/FSA accounts, disability and life insurance for U.S. employees • In Canada, employer-funded HSA-based benefits plan with drug, dental, and mental health coverage • 401(k) matching for U.S. employees • RRSP matching for employees in Canada • Tailored career development conversations • Support for tools, courses, and resources for professional growth • Unlimited Paid Time Off • Paid company holidays • Company-wide winter break from December 24 to January 1 • Collaborative, supportive team culture • Work authorization support is not provided; candidates must have authorization to work in Canada or the U.S. without sponsorship