Chief Architect

About Super.com

We started Super.com to help maximize lives–both the lives of our customers and the lives of our employees– so that everyone can experience all that life has to offer. For our employees, our promise is that Super.com is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to unlock one’s potential, where learning is celebrated and impact is realized.  

We are more than a fast-paced, high-growth tech company; we care about our people and take career progression seriously. This is your career and our aim is to supercharge it through the people, the work, and the programs that fuel who we are.

About this team

Super.com engineering has three full-stack product development focus areas: fintech, travel, and a superapp to unite them all. Between them, our dozens of microservices and event-driven architecture handle 1000s of requests and events per second, ingest over 1TB of data per day and process over $1MM per day in sales, while maintaining a 99.9+% uptime. We have 80 engineers across our teams and we work in close partnership with Product Managers, Designers, and QA in an agile, fast-paced scaleup environment (that respects work/life balance).

About this role

As our Chief Architect, you will be the most senior technical individual contributor in our company. You will be the point person for solving the most difficult technical challenges our engineering org faces spanning frontend and backend web development as well as system architecture. You will drive our long-term technology roadmap and how to best leverage engineering to drive user and business impact in our fintech, travel, and superapp products. You will predominantly work with React on the frontend, and a combination of Python and Node microservices on the backend. Other technologies you’ll work with include Gitlab, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, and Snowflake. You will report to the VP of Engineering, and work alongside peer Engineering Directors and Engineering Chief of Staff.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the technical direction for engineering org full-stack web development projects and system architecture

• Raise the bar for engineering through mentorship, leading by example, and contributing to technical decision making and working groups

• Tackle high-priority, high-impact, and ambitious initiatives to propel our company forward, getting your hands dirty when appropriate

• Report into the VP of Engineering, but work largely self-directed and autonomously

• Your role will be versatile, making use of your judgment to direct your efforts to the highest leverage use of your time in any given week

• Contribute to quarterly OKR planning and brainstorming to ensure we are prioritizing technical initiatives to improve engineering productivity and architecture robustness

• Help ensure our engineering teams strike the right balance between building quickly and building sustainably, and build vs. buy decision making

About You

• Highly motivated, interested in wearing multiple hats and continuous learning, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced scaleup environment with an emphasis on delivering business value

• Still highly technical and have at least staff-level coding skills at this point in your career

• A positive/enthusiastic person who enjoys solving problems, not just identifying them

• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills

• Get excited about leading cross-team technical discussions and driving architectural change progressively and through influence

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years experience as a Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer, or experience as a Principle Engineer / Architect or technical head of engineering (ex. CTO)

• Deep expertise in full-stack web development, system design, and using modern web technologies & cloud-based infrastructure

• At least senior le