5 months ago
Stockholm, SwedenSenior
Base Salary
$145k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the overall architecture and system design for scalable and efficient software solutions
- Provide technical leadership to engineering teams on architecture, coding practices, and system scalability
- Design and document high-level system diagrams, data flows, and API structures
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and cloud services for performance, security, and cost efficiency
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and security in architectural decisions
- Oversee integrations involving microservices, APIs, and third-party services
- Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams on deployment and operational reliability
- Establish coding and architecture standards for maintainable and scalable codebases
- Identify and mitigate technical risks while planning for system resilience and future scalability
- Conduct architecture reviews and performance audits to improve system efficiency
Requirements
- Around 6+ years of experience in software development and architecture
- Strong expertise in system design, cloud computing, and microservices architecture
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and cloud-native architectures
- Proficiency in backend technologies such as Node.js, Python, Java, or .NET
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, caching strategies, and data pipelines
- Experience with event-driven architectures, API design, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of security best practices, identity management, and encryption techniques
- Ability to balance scalability, cost, and complexity when evaluating architectural trade-offs
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and CloudFormation
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex architectural concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
- Fully onsite position based in Lisbon with relocation support available
- Apple hardware ecosystem for work
- Annual bonus
- Health and life insurance
- Transportation budget
- Coverflex benefits package for meals and well-being
- Childcare support
- Air Conference for team collaboration and growth
- Pension fund
- Urban Sports Club membership
- Free meals at the hub
Tech Stack
About Air Apps
Air Apps develops and publishes consumer mobile apps for iOS and Android across productivity, utilities, fitness, creativity, and learning. Founded in 2018 in Lisbon and now operating from Lisbon and San Francisco, the privately held company is self-funded and reports over 100 million worldwide downloads across 30+ titles. Current work includes an AI-powered Personal & Entrepreneurial Resource Planner.