Lead Platform Architect / Technical Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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KENTECH

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51 - 200 employees

📋 Compliance

👥 HR Tech

🔐 Security

Compliance • HR Tech • Security

KENTECH is a revolutionary provider of investigative background check technology. By combining experience in both HIGH TECH HIGH TOUCH™ solutions, KENTECH helps clients navigate risk while satisfying compliance demands, and gain the competitive advantage derived from hiring superior human capital. They offer tailored screening solutions for various industries, utilizing the latest technology for employers, law enforcement, non-profits, colleges, and housing authorities. Their services include comprehensive background checks, drug testing, biometric fingerprint scanning, and more. KENTECH ensures compliance with laws such as the FCRA and provides integration with HR and property management platforms to streamline hiring processes.

📋 Description

• Design the architecture of a secure, scalable, multi-tenant enterprise SaaS platform • Personally write production software alongside senior engineers • Establish domain and data architecture • Design authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, and role-based permissions • Establish API and integration architecture • Design secure handling of sensitive information and documents • Establish auditability and transaction-history standards • Define cloud architecture and deployment strategy • Establish engineering standards, code-review practices, testing standards, and documentation expectations • Establish CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and production-support practices • Make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions • Evaluate technical assets and recommend what to retain, refactor, or replace • Help recruit, interview, and mentor the initial engineering team • Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions • Establish an engineering culture centered on ownership, quality, speed, and accountability • Report directly to KENTECH's Founder & CEO • Initially spend approximately 60–70% on architecture and hands-on engineering, 20–25% on technical leadership/design/code review, and 10–15% on hiring, mentoring, planning, and technical strategy • Understand KENTECH's business and operational environment • Establish target architecture, technology-stack decisions, platform/security/data/integration architecture, engineering environments, delivery processes, and testing standards • Begin delivering production-quality platform capabilities and a repeatable foundation for future products

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience • Significant experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer, Platform Architect, Technical Lead, or equivalent • Demonstrated experience designing and building production SaaS applications • Experience designing multi-tenant systems • Strong backend engineering expertise • Strong understanding of modern frontend and application architecture • Deep understanding of relational databases and data modeling • Experience designing APIs and enterprise integration patterns • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, RBAC, and application security • Experience working with sensitive or regulated data • Experience building software in a compliance-oriented environment such as SOC 2, CJIS, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, or equivalent • Deep AWS experience designing and operating secure production systems in regulated environments • Experience establishing CI/CD and modern software delivery practices • Experience with automated testing, monitoring, and production debugging • Ability to independently evaluate architectural tradeoffs • Demonstrated ability to personally write production-quality software • Must pass a comprehensive background investigation as a condition of employment • Additional personnel-security requirements may apply depending on system access and customer requirements • Comfortable operating in a modern cloud-native environment, potentially including TypeScript/JavaScript, React/Next.js, Node.js or comparable backend technologies, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Infrastructure as Code, REST APIs, CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud monitoring/observability

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote position • Direct access to the Founder & CEO • Meaningful authority over technology architecture, engineering standards, technical decision-making, and initial engineering-team development • Opportunity to establish a greenfield enterprise platform architecture • Opportunity to help select and build the initial engineering team • Work with an established company, real customers, proprietary domain knowledge, and real operating experience • Equal opportunity employment