Software Architect (Remote Boston MA)
Foundation EGI5 hours ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$140k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, technical design, and execution strategy for cross-functional engineering initiatives.
- Define scalable system designs and establish engineering best practices.
- Partner with Product and Research teams to deliver production-ready features.
- Create technical specifications, implementation plans, and delivery milestones for complex initiatives.
- Mentor engineers and researchers through architecture reviews, code reviews, documentation, and pair programming.
- Improve platform and service reliability, scalability, observability, and performance.
- Contribute hands-on to critical code using clean, maintainable, and well-tested practices.
- Improve developer experience, infrastructure, and deployment workflows.
- Help foster an engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, and collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems.
- Strong experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
- Fluency in Python, TypeScript, and SQL.
- Experience designing and implementing gRPC- and Protobuf-based APIs.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong knowledge of data modeling, performance optimization, and scalable system design.
- Familiarity with machine learning, including LLMs.
- Experience building frontends with React.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
- Bonus: experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools.
- Bonus: experience with CAD software, computer graphics, simulation, physics-based systems, domain-specific languages, production machine learning systems, or Kubernetes-based production environments.
Tech Stack
AWSDockerGitHub ActionsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformgRPCKubernetesNext.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactSpinnakerSQLTerraformTypeScript
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About Foundation EGI
Foundation EGI builds a cloud AI platform (EGI) that accelerates product development for engineering and manufacturing teams by integrating with CAD systems, running physics-informed simulations, and automating documentation. It sells its software to industrial and hardware companies as a SaaS offering focused on design-to-manufacture workflows. The company was founded in 2023, is headquartered in Los Altos, California, and is privately held and venture-backed.