Lead Architect / Principal Engineer
Litmus, Santa Clara, California +1
What you will do
- Own the overall technical architecture of the platform — set the long-term vision and make the hard calls that balance speed, scale, and maintainability.
- Drive architectural decisions across multiple teams and systems, ensuring consistency, reliability, and developer velocity.
- Identify systemic engineering problems early and lead solutions that create org-wide leverage.
- Partner with engineering leads to design and review critical systems before they're built — not after.
- Champion and standardize engineering patterns, tooling, and infrastructure best practices across the organization.
- Evaluate emerging technologies with clear-eyed judgment and guide adoption where it genuinely moves the needle.
- Mentor and develop senior and staff engineers — raise the technical bar and help your colleagues do their best work.
- Represent engineering architecture in cross-functional discussions with product, operations, and leadership.
- Contribute to hiring decisions and help shape what world-class engineering looks like at our company.