Software Architect (Scalability & Performance Engineering)

About Wellness Coach

At Wellness Coach , we’re reimagining the future of well-being. Our mission is to help millions of people live healthier, more mindful, and more balanced lives — powered by technology, compassion, and science.

We’re building next-generation AI-driven wellness solutions — from intelligent conversational systems to personalized coaching experiences — and we’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer who’s ready to push the boundaries of what AI can do for humanity.

We are seeking an experienced Software Architect to design and optimize scalable systems capable of handling millions of users and high-throughput workloads. You will play a key role in defining our system architecture, improving performance, and ensuring reliability across distributed environments. The ideal candidate is passionate about system design, microservices, and solving complex performance bottlenecks in real-world production systems.

Key Responsibilities Architecture & Design

Define and evolve the overall system architecture to ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.

Lead the design of microservices, data pipelines, APIs, and distributed systems with an emphasis on performance and fault tolerance.

Review and optimize database schemas, caching strategies, and message queues for throughput and latency.

Performance & Scalability

Diagnose and eliminate performance bottlenecks across backend services and databases.

Establish load testing, profiling, and benchmarking practices.

Guide teams in implementing patterns for scaling (horizontal / vertical), sharding, partitioning, and async processing.

Collaboration & Leadership

Work closely with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to align architectural decisions with business goals.

Mentor engineers in system design best practices, performance tuning, and scalable coding patterns.

Drive adoption of architectural governance and ensure compliance with technical standards.

Technology & Innovation

Evaluate emerging technologies and tools for scalability and system resilience.

Define and document architectural blueprints, reference implementations, and technical roadmaps.

Collaborate with SREs to ensure system observability, monitoring, and incident response readiness.

Required Skills & Experience Education : Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Experience : 10+ years of software development experience, including at least 4 years in system or solution architecture.

Technical Expertise :

10+ years of software development experience, with 4+ years in architecture or system design.

Proven experience in designing and scaling distributed systems and microservices, building scalable apps using Python, Node.js , Expressjs , Nestjs and MongoDB .

Demonstrated expertise in handling time zone–aware analytics data for a global user base.

Strong knowledge of AWS services (ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront).

Implement subscription management features , including plan upgrades, renewals, cancellations, and pro-rated billing.

Solid understanding of React , RESTful APIs , and GraphQL integration at scale.

Expertise in performance profiling , load testing , and database query optimization .

Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS) and event-driven architecture .

Familiarity with CI / CD pipelines , Docker , Kubernetes , and monitoring tools like Prometheus , Datadog , or New Relic .

Soft Skills :

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Excellent communication, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Strategic thinker with a pragmatic approach to delivery.

Collaboration with teams across multiple timezone.

What We Offer Opportunity to shape the technical future of a high-growth company.

Competitive compensation and equity package.

Flexible work environment and culture of innovation.

Professional growth through conferences, mentorship, and training.