Principal Architect
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Job Location:
Cape Town - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
MOO set out to shake up the world of print back in 2006. And weve come a long way since. Today were a 400 strong team (were thinking of getting matching jackets) who create print and digital products for companies of all sizes from Google and AirBnB to the guy who makes those amazing prints you found at a craft fair.
Our global HQ is in London UK while we also have premises in the US youll find us in Boston MA as well as East Providence RI and Denver CO and now in Cape Town South Africa!
This role is cross-cutting across Technology & Product not limited to eCommerce. Youll partner with Heads of Engineering Staff Engineers Product and Platform to define and drive the end-to-end system architecture spanning eCommerce postpurchase manufacturing and data. Youll be accountable for architectural outcomes migration strategy and enabling product engineering to ship safely at pace.
*Please Note*
This role will be based in Cape Town South Africa.
Relocation assistance available for the right candidate
The Person We Want
- Proven experience leading large-scale platform or product migrations across multiple teams
- Deep eCommerce or high-volume transactional systems experience (checkout payments order management catalog)
- Expert in domain-driven design API design and microservices/event-driven architecture
- Strong breadth: frontend architecture ( SSR/SSG CDN/edge) and backend (Node/Java microservices)
- Cloud-native on AWS; comfortable defining requirements and guardrails for platform teams
- Influences without authority; mentors Staff and Senior engineers raises the bar across org
About You
- You are a seasoned architect and product-minded technologist who leads through influence across multiple teams.
- Youve led large multi-quarter platform migrations or consolidations and you balance pragmatism with long-term architectural clarity.
- You are excellent at communication up down and across and you turn ambiguity into clear direction.
Responsibilities
- Architecture and governance
- Responsibilities: Define target architecture standards and patterns; ensure decisions are captured via ADRs; steward security privacy and compliance guardrails
- Accountabilities: Architectural integrity reduced complexity over time safe migration with controlled risk clear decision trail
- Delivery enablement
- Responsibilities: Enable parallel team delivery through welldesigned interfaces and migration patterns; unblock teams with timely guidance and reviews
- Accountabilities: Ontime crossteam delivery of strategic outcomes; fewer blockers; consistent adherence to standards
- Developer experience and reliability
- Responsibilities: Partner with Platform to uplift CI/CD observability SLOs and incident learning; advocate for fitness functions and paved roads
- Accountabilities: Improved flow and stability metrics; faster safer releases; measurable DX improvements
- People leadership
- Responsibilities: Mentor Staff/Senior engineers; run architecture reviews and forums; translate architecture into business impact for executives
- Accountabilities: Higher engineering leverage clearer alignment stronger technical decision quality across the org
Whats it like to work at MOO
MOOs the kind of workplace where you can really be yourself. Dye your hair purple. Hit the sofa with your laptop. Whatever helps you feel comfortable and happy at work. We want to help you grow in your career and set you up for success while also recognising the importance of a healthy work/life balance.
Thats why we offer 19 days holiday rising by one day for each year here (for 5 years) a matched pension scheme and paid parental leave. Well offer you private healthcare and life insurance. We also offer flexible work schedules with hybrid and remote working for certain roles.
Diversity Statement
We are working hard to create a representative inclusive and super-friendly team because we know that different experiences perspectives and backgrounds make for a better workplace. And that creates a better experience for our customers. MOO doesnt discriminate on the basis of race colour religion or belief gender national origin age sexual orientation marital status disability or any other protected class.
As a design and technology company we have a desire and a responsibility to build a business that represents the world around us. So we strive to create a values-driven purposeful and highly empowered organisation that we are all proud to work for. And we are committed to continuous investment in building an open and inclusive environment welcoming a diverse audience of candidates who see themselves working and thriving at MOO. Therefore wed like to invite you to complete this optional survey to help us evaluate our inclusion and diversity efforts. Completing this form is entirely voluntary and if you decide not to it wont in any way affect your job application. We keep the information separate from your application and it is kept secure and confidential it is only used to better our inclusion and diversity submitting this information you consent to MOOs processing of it for these purposes.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- S3
- Google Cloud Platform
- Cassandra
- System Architecture
- Redshift
- AWS
- Cloud Architecture
- NoSQL
- UML
- Kafka
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Online printing services to create high-quality business cards, stickers, postcards, and more. Professional custom printing by MOO, the best online print shop.
