Position:

Lead Full-Stack Cloud Architect Level:

Senior /

Lead Location:

Remote, Miami-based Compensation:

Competitive Hourly Rate, 12+ month contract Reports to: Product Owner Overview We're building a subscription, multi-tenant HR platform, engineered to financial-industry-grade cloud standards, with proprietary client HR data held in strict per-client silos.

This is the architect seat:

you decide the stack — AWS or Azure, and whatever persistence/load-balancing approach each client actually needs — not just build to spec. You're expected to bring "here's how I'd build it," not ask for one. What You'll Build The web client (your framework choice — justify it) The overall cloud architecture: cloud provider decision (AWS or Azure), persistence tier strategy (MongoDB vs. relational, decided per client where it matters), load-balancing topology, authentication approach, containerization strategy Technical decision-making for a "mission control" style backend that isolates proprietary client HR data in silos, not a shared multi-tenant table Must Have 7+ years full-stack, with real ownership of architecture decisions (not just implementation) on multiple large-scale systems Deep AWS or Azure experience — genuine infrastructure ownership, not just deployment; if AWS, hands-on Lambda architecture experience Experience from large-scale financial or regulated institutions (JPMorgan-caliber environments or equivalent) — the product is HR software, but the uptime and data-isolation discipline this role needs comes from that kind of environment Demonstrated experience running different persistence/scaling configurations per customer or tenant in a single platform Strong, defensible opinions on stack choices, backed by tradeoff reasoning Explicitly Not Looking For NOT looking for an AI-centric dev who lacks real hands-on programming chops NOT looking for Node.js as primary backend stack

PROBABLY NOT C

#/.NET-centric backgrounds (strong preference against) Order-takers — if you ask what stack to use instead of proposing one, it's a no Nice to Have Strong contract/consulting work where you've owned architecture for an external client Experience building HR-adjacent or people-data platforms Not for you? Referrals welcome, Sherlock loves to share $1,000 referral success bonuses. Add your name in the referral field of the application form.