Сore Software Architect

Fairmarkit is the #1 autonomous sourcing platform revolutionizing the way all organizations buy & sell. Fairmarkit equips procurement teams with automation, AI, and GenAI so they can source more competitively at scale. Our solutions for tail spend and strategic sourcing help innovative procurement teams reduce cycle times, drive out costs, meet ESG/Diversity targets, and provide a better stakeholder experience to internal partners and suppliers. Fairmarkit has been recognized with awards by organizations such as Gartner and IDC, and is backed by strategic investors like Notable Capital, Insight Partners, 1984.VC , and Newfund. We are hiring a Software Architect to serve as a senior technical design partner to Fairmarkit’s engineering leadership as we build new product capabilities and strengthen the foundation of our existing platform. This role reports directly to the SVP of Engineering and will be central to how we make architectural decisions across the company. We’re looking for someone with deep engineering expertise, strong product instincts, and the ability to make decisions confidently - a person who naturally brings clarity to complexity and aligns teams on the best path forward. This is not an ivory-tower role: the Architect will be hands-on when needed, especially for MVPs, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts, while spending most of their time shaping architecture, driving technical direction, and ensuring we build scalable, resilient systems. Our platform is built with Python on the backend, Angular on the frontend, and runs in a multi-cloud environment (AWS + Azure). This is the foundation you’ll help us evolve. Why does this role matter? Fairmarkit is scaling — not just in customers and usage, but in product complexity and technical expectations. The decisions we make now will define our speed, stability, and ability to deliver for years. This role ensures we build with intention: aligned architecture, strong design, high engineering quality, and clear technical direction that keeps teams moving fast without sacrificing durability. What You’ll Do Serve as a technical design partner to the SVP of Engineering and Engineering Leadership, shaping architectural direction and technical strategy. Drive and own key architecture decisions across our platform — making decisions is a central requirement of this role. Lead system-level design across: backend services (Python) frontend architecture (Angular) APIs and integrations data workflows and system boundaries multi-cloud deployment and infrastructure patterns (AWS + Azure) Establish and evolve architectural standards including: scalable service design performance and reliability best practices system modularity and domain modeling security and compliance patterns observability and operational excellence Partner with Engineering Managers and Tech Leads to ensure architectural intent is reflected in execution. Guide teams through technical tradeoffs and design reviews — ensuring clarity, alignment, and high quality. Identify high-leverage cross-cutting improvements and lead initiatives that accelerate engineering velocity and stability. Be hands-on when needed: prototype new services or workflows build PoCs to validate architecture choices support teams through hard technical problems contribute meaningful production-quality code when required Improve reliability and scale by shaping architecture for: incident prevention monitoring and alerting deployment safety performance tuning Collaborate closely with Product and stakeholders to align technology decisions with business outcomes. What Success Looks Like Architecture decisions are made faster and with stronger alignment — fewer stalls, fewer reversals, fewer costly rewrites. Engineering teams ship with greater confidence because system design is clear, scalable, and consistent. Our multi-cloud platform becomes more resilient and operationally mature. The backend and frontend architecture becomes more modular, maintainabl