Software Architect
WHO WE ARE 🌍
We help creators get more out of every conversation with Instagram-focused automations and support for other channels like Messenger, WhatsApp, and TikTok. The result? Better engagement, more sales, and real, sustainable growth.
With a diverse team of 350+ people spread across three continents, we’re building the leading Chat Marketing platform that is used — and loved — by more than 1.5 million customers worldwide.
OUR TEAM🌟
We’re building and scaling high-performance Python-based services that power messaging automation, analytics, and AI features for millions of users. As we expand, we need a Software Architect who can guide our engineering teams toward long-term technical excellence, design scalable and secure service architectures, and establish unified best practices across the organization.
THE ROLE 💥
We’re looking for a Software (Python) Architect to shape the long-term technical direction of our Python ecosystem. This role combines strategic ownership, deep technical expertise, and cross-team leadership to ensure our Python-based systems are scalable, maintainable, and future-ready.
You will play a key role in developing and evolving existing services built for AI functionality and Data analytics, while also designing a roadmap for migrating parts of the product into standalone Python services. Your mission is to bring architectural clarity, technical consistency, and long-term vision to how Python is used across the organization.
You’ll act as both a hands-on expert and a strategic leader, setting standards for service architecture, code quality, performance, and deployment practices. The ideal candidate combines technical mastery with the ability to influence engineering culture, guide cross-team alignment, and drive company-wide architectural initiatives.
WHAT YOU’LL DO🤖
Architecture & Strategy
- Define and maintain the architecture strategy for all Python-based systems.
- Lead the migration of product components into standalone Python services.
- Evaluate and guide the adoption of modern frameworks, tools, and cloud solutions.
- Identify technical risks, scalability challenges, and improvement opportunities and propose actionable solutions.
Technical Excellence
- Design and evolve distributed, event-driven, and high-load systems in Python.
- Establish and enforce coding standards, CI/CD best practices, and testing automation.
- Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure to enhance observability, reliability, and deployment pipelines.
- Optimize systems for performance, resilience, and maintainability across multiple environments.
Collaboration & Mentorship
- Partner closely with AI/ML, Data Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to ensure architectural alignment.
- Mentor engineers, lead architecture reviews, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both engineering teams and business stakeholders.
TO SHINE IN THIS ROLE 💥
- 7+ years of professional experience with Python in production-grade, large-scale systems.
- Proven experience designing and operating microservices or distributed architectures.
- Deep understanding of asynchronous programming, concurrency, and Python performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (pytest, unittest), and monitoring tools.
- Strong knowledge of REST/gRPC APIs, message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and databases (PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB).
- Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Solid grasp of system design principles, scalability strategies, and performance optimization.
- Excellent communication skills with a collaborative, solution-oriented mindset.
- Experience mentoring engineers and establishing engineering best practices.
- Experience working with AI or Data-intensive services is a strong plus.
WHAT WE OFFER 🤗
We care deeply about your growth, well-being, and comfort:
- 🌍 Hybrid onboarding to start work remotely and relocation support for you and your family.
- 💙 Comprehensive health insurance for both you and your family.
- 📚 Professional development budget for conference tickets, online courses, and other relevant resources to help you grow.
- 🫶 Flexible benefits package to tailor perks that matters most for you.
- 🪴 Hybrid work and generous leave options to prioritize your work-life balance.
- 🍽️ In-office perks, including free meals and snacks.
- 🤝 Company-funded sport activities, annual offsites and team-building events.
Manychat is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.
This commitment is also reflected through our candidate experience. If you have individual needs that may require an accommodation during the interview process, please indicate this in your application. We will do our best to provide assistance throughout your interview process to ensure you’re set up for success.
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