Software Architect
Canada / United States
Engineering – Engineering /
Full-time /
Remote
We started Super.com to help maximize lives–both the lives of our customers and the lives of our team – so that everyone can experience all that life has to offer. For our employees, our promise is that Super.com is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to unlock one’s potential, where learning is celebrated and impact is realized.
We are more than a fast-paced, high-growth tech company; we care about our people and take career progression seriously. This is your career and our aim is to supercharge it through the people, the work, and the programs that fuel who we are.
About this role
As a Software Architect you will be the most senior technical individual contributor in our company. You will be the point person for solving the most difficult technical challenges our engineering org faces spanning frontend and backend web development as well as system architecture. You will drive our long-term technology roadmap and how to best leverage engineering to drive user and business impact in our fintech, travel, earnings, and membership products. You will predominantly work with React on the frontend, and a combination of Python and Node microservices on the backend. Other technologies you’ll work with include Gitlab, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, and Snowflake. You will report to the engineering department head, and play a key role on our “techxecutive” team.
What you'll be working on:
- Oversee the technical direction for engineering org full-stack web development projects and system architecture
- Raise the bar for engineering through mentorship, leading by example, and contributing to technical decision making and guilds
- Tackle high-priority, high-impact, and ambitious initiatives to propel our company and technical excellence forward, getting your hands dirty with POCs and working with others to productionize
- Report into the engineering department head, but work largely self-directed and autonomously. Your role will be versatile, making use of your judgment to direct your efforts to the highest leverage use of your time in any given week
- Contribute to quarterly OKR planning and brainstorming to ensure we are prioritizing technical initiatives to improve engineering productivity and architecture robustness
- Help ensure our engineering teams strike the right balance between building quickly and building sustainably, and build vs. buy decision making
Our Technology:
- We use a state of the art architecture powered by Node and Python microservices and React frontend
- We use Postgres for storage, Redis for caching, and Snowflake for our data warehouse
- We use Gitlab for version control and CI/CD, and our infrastructure is hosted on AWS, making use of Kubernetes, RDS, etc
- We invest heavily in monitoring and automated alerting using Datadog
- We use Amplitude, Hotjar, and LogRocket for client-side metrics and experimentation
- We use Material-UI and maintain our own component library, using Figma for mock-ups
- We integrate with a multitude of third-parties to support our compliance, risk, and security policies]
Who we're looking for:
- Highly motivated, interested in wearing multiple hats, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced scale-up environment with an emphasis on delivering business value
- A positive / enthusiastic person who enjoys solving problems, not just identifying them
- Strong technical and non-technical communication skills
- Get excited about leading cross-team technical discussions and driving architectural change progressively and through influence
- 5+ years experience as a Staff Engineer or above (including CTO), working on full-stack web development
- At least staff level coding ability and intuition for full-stack web development , and at least senior depth in JS and Python
- Deep expertise in full-stack web development, system design, and using modern web technologies & cloud-based infrastructure
- Have been a technical lead (not necessarily people lead) for shipping major projects, and have worked with multiple complex codebases and across teams
- Have mentored senior engineers, and look forward to continuing to do so
- Experience implementing event driven architecture, message brokers, event streaming and storage (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Have experience owning, monitoring, and debugging production services, including high QPS services
- Have worked in a startup or scaleup environment, and with medium scale products (typically high QPS and/or large customer base)
Bonus Points for:
- Technical depth with our stack (Python & nNde web services, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog)
- Data Engineering experience
- DevOps experience
- Have participated in Engineering org knowledge sharing / tech talks, and/or led a guild to establish engineering best practices
- Have been a key decision maker for build/buy decision making and SaaS selection
At Super.com, we believe in supporting our team so they can thrive—both at work and in life.
Remote-First Flexibility: Work from anywhere in the world and choose the hours that suit you best. We trust you to get great work done on your terms.
Time to Recharge: Enjoy unlimited PTO, company-wide recharge days, and annual team offsites.
Everyday Perks: Weekly UberEats credits and travel discounts on SuperTravel help you enjoy the little things.
Family-Friendly Benefits: We support growing families with generous parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan.
Comprehensive Compensation: Competitive salary, equity options, and top-tier benefits starting on day one.
Investing in You: Access to wellness budgets, personal development funds, and team-level learning resources.
And that’s just the beginning. Visit our careers page to explore the full range of perks and benefits we offer.
Super.com is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If needed, please notify our Talent Acquisition Partner.
