Senior AI-Native Solutions Architect / System Architect

🔹 About the client

• Industry: A leading subscription e-commerce company in the consumer brands space.

• Team: Distributed, with a strong presence in Eastern Europe.

• Context: They are evolving their ecosystem to be "AI-native" and need an architect to lead agent orchestration and system design.

• Model: Fully remote, fast-moving, and highly collaborative.

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🔑 Who we’re looking for

We need a heavyweight System Architect who moves beyond standard development and thinks in terms of AI-native infrastructure. This role involves leading a small two-person team and reporting directly to the Director of Engineering.

Ideal candidate:

• Senior Architect Mindset: Ability to design complex systems and handle architectural decisions, not just implement features.

• AI-Native Expertise: Practical experience in AI agent orchestration, creating agent skills/tooling, and memory management within the modern AI stack.

• Backend Core: Strong Java and PostgreSQL.

• Security & Infrastructure: Familiarity with security tooling (Cloudflare and similar) is essential as you'll manage your own environment setup.

• Language: Strong spoken English is a must.

• Nice-to-have: Rust experience and previous experience managing small engineering teams.

• Timezone: Ability to provide at least 4 hours of overlap with New York (EST). Eastern Europe is a perfect fit.

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🔑 Cooperation details (white-label)

• Start: ASAP (Backfill)

• Format: Full-time, remote

• Time zone: 4h overlap with EST (New York)

• Rate: Open for your options

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