Principal Software Architect

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November 21

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Wiser Solutions, Inc.

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eCommerce • Retail • B2B

Wiser Solutions, Inc. is a company that provides comprehensive data-driven solutions for CPG brand manufacturers, eCommerce brands, marketplace sellers, and retailers. Its offerings include price optimization, product discoverability enhancement, retail execution support, and insights for growth and competitiveness in both online and in-store environments. Wiser's tools focus on leveraging pricing data, automation, and market intelligence to help businesses protect margins, maximize sales, and maintain brand consistency. The company's solutions are built on data quality and are designed to enable better commerce execution for its clients.

501 - 1000 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

🤝 B2B

💰 Seed Round on 2016-03

📋 Description

• Partner with the Chief Architect to align vision and shape long-term technology strategy • Review designs, epics, and proposals to ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability • Lead and facilitate design reviews, guiding teams on microservices, DDD, hexagonal architecture, and event-driven design • Drive technical transformation through hands-on prototyping, emerging tech adoption, and architectural modernization • Design and deliver cloud-native, Kubernetes-based solutions with deep AWS expertise • Monitor and optimize cloud expenditure using FinOps practices • Lead initiatives for platform reliability, performance, and infrastructure cost management • Support multi-cloud strategies and evaluate new cloud services where appropriate • Partner with product, engineering, and leadership to balance technical excellence with business priorities • Communicate architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences • Mentor engineers and foster strong architectural thinking across teams • Present architecture vision and progress to stakeholders with clarity and influence • Design and implement key platform components when needed • Create proofs-of-concept for evaluating and integrating new technologies • Stay proficient in multiple programming languages (TypeScript, Node.js, Python preferred; Go a strong bonus) • Contribute to on-call rotations for critical production systems

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software architecture, including several at a senior/principal level • Demonstrated ability to influence and shape architectural direction at organizational scale • Proven track record leading technical transformation initiatives • Strong leadership and mentoring skills with the ability to inspire without direct authority • Deep expertise in AWS and Kubernetes – essential for success in this role • Experience with multiple cloud vendors and multi-cloud approaches • Strong DevOps/CI-CD background, with hands-on experience in Terraform • Familiarity with cloud cost optimization frameworks and FinOps practices • Expertise in modern architectural patterns: microservices, hexagonal, DDD, bounded contexts, and event-driven approaches represented • Familiarity with enterprise architectural frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and practical application • Strong programming background (TypeScript, Node.js, or Python preferred; Go a strong bonus) • Experience building high-scale distributed systems and services • Experience expressing system designs with C4 Modeling • Knowledge of relational, NoSQL, and search databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) and messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS) • Proficiency in continuous delivery, deployment pipelines, and automated testing practices