Software Architect (Scalability & Performance Engineering) (Immediate Start)

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

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