System1

Principal Solutions Architect, API's

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6 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Run technical discovery with engineering leaders to understand architectures, workflows, and evaluation criteria.
  • Build working customer proofs using real addresses, routes, and datasets across geocoding, routing, optimization, search, address validation, and maps.
  • Win competitive bakeoffs against Google Maps, Mapbox, and other providers using data-driven evaluations.
  • Create migration guides, code samples, demos, migration kits, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Own the technical win through customer sign-off and a clean handoff to implementation.

Requirements

  • Rapidly build API proofs using REST APIs, JSON, Postman or curl, Python or JavaScript, and messy real-world data.
  • Investigate geospatial data issues such as inaccurate geocoding results.
  • Communicate effectively with developers, engineering leaders, and VPs.
  • Understand the technical requirements needed to advance a deal.
  • Experience with Google Maps Platform, Mapbox, ESRI, HERE, TomTom, or similar location platforms is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • First hire in the function with the mandate and runway to define how it works.
  • Compensation is tied directly to API revenue with upside above plan.
  • Small team, direct access, and fast decisions within an early B2B business.
  • On-target earnings are $280,000 to $325,000, consisting of base plus variable compensation tied to API sales performance, with accelerators above plan.

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Solutions Engineering
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About System1

201-500 employees

System1 builds an AI-driven customer acquisition and marketing platform and operates consumer brands across search, shopping, and travel, including the privacy-focused Startpage search engine. It delivers high-intent traffic to advertising partners and monetizes through advertising and performance marketing. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, System1 is a public company trading on the NYSE under the ticker SST.

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