Senior Architect

About Elas

Elas is building a modern operational intelligence platform that helps organizations understand patterns, trends, and performance across their workforce and systems. We unify data across environments and surface meaningful insights through a single, intuitive interface.

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We operate with a builder mindset—fast-moving, highly pragmatic, and focused on scalable, secure systems from day one.

Role Overview

We're hiring a Senior Architect who is both a systems thinker and hands-on builder. This role is responsible for defining and implementing the technical architecture of Elas across infrastructure, backend, and frontend systems while actively contributing code and guiding the team.

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You will work closely with engineering, product, and leadership to design and deliver production-grade, scalable, and secure systems.

What You'll Do

• Design and evolve a cloud-native architecture on AWS.

• Lead implementation of Kubernetes-based infrastructure (EKS).

• Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.

• Define and enforce microservices and micro-frontend architectures.

• Build and review Golang-based backend services.

• Guide development of React frontend architecture.

• Design scalable data models across SQL, NoSQL, and graph databases.

• Implement secure-by-design systems including authentication, authorization, and data protection.

• Establish best practices for observability, monitoring, and reliability.

• Drive system design, refactoring, and technical decision-making.

• Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering quality.

Required Skills

Full-Stack Engineering

• True full-stack expertise with strong hands-on experience.
  • Golang (required).
  • React + TypeScript.

• Strong understanding of API design (REST, GraphQL) and frontend performance.

Architecture & System Design

• Proven ability to design production-grade systems with engineering, product, and stakeholders.

• Strong experience with design patterns, system modeling, and service boundaries.

• Experience refactoring and improving medium-to-large codebases.

Modern Architecture Patterns

• Deep experience with
  • microservices architecture
  • micro-frontend design.
  • Domain-driven design (DDD).

• Experience building event-driven systems (Kafka, SNS/SQS, pub/sub).

Scalable Systems

• Experience building enterprise-grade, highly scalable distributed systems.

• Strong understanding of
  • Load balancing
  • Caching strategies
  • Fault tolerance/resilience patterns.

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Deep experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC).

• Hands-on experience with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).

• Strong experience with ArgoCD and GitOps workflows.

Data Architecture

• Hands-on experience designing and optimizing
  • SQL databases.
  • NoSQL databases.
  • Graph databases (preferred).

• Strong understanding of indexing, query optimization, and scaling data systems.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Deep understanding of DevOps and AgentOps practices.

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions and Argo.

• Focus on automation, reliability, and developer productivity.

Kubernetes & Containers

• Strong hands-on experience with
  • Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
  • Docker / containerized systems.

• Experience managing deployments, scaling, and cluster operations.

Distributed Systems

• Deep understanding of
  • Consistency models
  • Latency trade-offs
  • Fault tolerance.

• Experience with observability tools for logging, metrics, and tracing.

Security

• Strong understanding of
  • Application secutity
  • Infrastructure security.
  • Secure authentication and authorization.

• Familiarity with SOC 2 / compliance-driven environments is a plus.

Nice to Have

• Experience building B2B SaaS platforms.

• Background in security or compliance-heavy environments.

• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Prior startup or high-growth company experience.

What We're Looking For

• A builder-first architect who writes code rather than just diagrams.

• High ownership and accountability.

• Ability to balance speed versus long-term scalability.

• Strong communicator across technical and non-technical teams.

• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment.

Salary Range

• $160,000–$180,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

Why Join Elas

• Shape the architecture of a growing platform from the ground up.

• Direct impact on product and technical direction.

• Small, high-caliber team with real ownership.

• Opportunity to define engineering standards, tooling, and culture
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