Solution Architect

At Miquido, we are expanding our architecture team and looking for an experienced Software Architect for long-term collaboration.This role offers real ownership over system architecture, influence on technical direction, and close cooperation with both clients and development teams. If you enjoy designing scalable systems, shaping engineering standards, and working with modern technologies — we would love to hear from you.

Tasks:

• Designing and evolving backend and API architectures (On-Premise & Cloud), with a strong focus on API design, data flow, and integration patterns

• Ability to design with scalability and maintainability in mind / 

• Working with sales team to conduct business and technical discovery with customers, including estimation and planning

• Working with developers to improve technology platform and solve backend teams facing issues

• Improve developers standards, tooling, and processes for the developers team at large

• Having conversations with customer and subject matter experts to clarify expectations from requirements

• Designing public and internal APIs (REST, GraphQL, async/event-based), including versioning, contracts, and backward compatibility

• Write technical documentation (design documents and technical proposals, changelogs)

• Actively experimenting with and applying AI-powered tools (LLMs, copilots, code assistants, internal AI agents) to improve developer productivity and system capabilities

Must have:

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering

• Proven ability to lead architecture discussions with teams, make pragmatic technical decisions and explain trade-offs clearly

• Can-do attitude and transparent approach (informing about problems/obstacles/progress)

• Strong experience in working directly with clients / external stakeholders

• Comfort working with modern AI concepts (LLMs, embeddings, RAG, streaming responses, AI-assisted workflows) and willingness to use them in real projectss

• Ability to easily and articulately explain complex technical concepts to cross functional team members

• Own all aspects of product development, from prototyping new ideas to designing and coding new systems to setting strategic architectural direction

• Practical experience in designing and reviewing APIs and backend systems — not only at diagram level, but also through real implementations

• Excellent command of written and spoken English (min. C1 level)

Nice to have:

• Expertise in utilizing either SQL or NoSQL databases

• Experience implementing authentication / authorization using strategies such as JWT / OIDC / OAUTH

• Experience with different clouds – AWS, Azure, GCP

• Experience with DevOps processes

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