Solution Architect

WERE HIRING! If you love data and are looking for unlimited growth opportunities we want to talk with you about joining Further.

Further is a data cloud and AI company whose focus is helping companies turn raw data into the right decisions. We have an award winning culture of extraordinary people. Our purpose is to enable people to thrive so that businesses can thrive. We believe that the work you do should matter - it should be meaningful to you professionally and personally and it should have a positive impact on both you and our clients. If this sounds exciting to you lets chat!

Solution Architect

You are the architectural conscience of the platform and the technical translator at the front of every client engagement. Half your week is inside the product reviewing ADRs holding integration patterns coherent and partnering with the data architect and senior dev to keep the architecture honest. The other half is in front of clients taking real operational complexity and turning it into platform configurations the system can actually are not a slide architect. You write decisions down defend them with reasons and change them when the reasons role only works if you genuinely enjoy both sides. The leverage is in the loop between them what we learn in deployments shapes the platform and what the platform enforces shapes how we will sit in our headquarters in Dallas TX on a hybrid schedule. The team is in office on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays.

What experience should you have:

• 10 years of software engineering experience with at least 4 explicitly accountable for system architecture Principal Engineer Staff Engineer Solution Architect or equivalent.
• Production experience with multi-tenant SaaS at meaningful scale. You have personally owned tenant isolation decisions and understand the difference between we have a tenantid column and a defensible isolation model.
• Deep experience with event-driven or event-sourced systems in production. You have opinions about idempotency schema evolution and the cost of getting either wrong.
• Working fluency in the modern TypeScript/Node ecosystem (NestJS Drizzle Zod Postgres Kafka/Redpanda Temporal or comparable). You can read the codebase make changes when it matters and produce durable architecture artifacts ADRs RFCs decision documents that someone six months from now can act on.
• Direct experience leading rooms of senior client or executive stakeholders consulting enterprise customer engineering field architecture or technical pre-sales. You can translate the engagement is slipping into a technical control loop and back again.

Nice to have:

• Background in professional services agency operations or management consulting you understand engagement economics from the inside.
• Observability experience (OpenTelemetry distributed tracing) at a depth that lets you design for it not just consume it.
• Architecture decisions on AI-native or LLM-integrated systems model gateways agent orchestration prompt versioning or evaluation pipelines.
• Experience in compliance-conscious environments (SOC 2 HIPAA GDPR) where audit trails and data residency are first-class concerns.
• Public writing conference talks or open-source contributions that show how you think.

What youll be doing in this role:

• Own the architectural coherence of the platform ADR backlog architecture reviews system shape diagrams the canonical event envelope the tenant isolation model. You hold the line on invariants and write down why.
• Define integration patterns for every external system identity providers CRMs project tools communication systems AI providers. You decide how we connect not just whether.
• Build and own client deployment patterns repeatable playbooks from first connector to first signal to first governed action. You author them run the first few personally and abstract them into reusable configurations as you go.
• Lead pre-deployment architecture sessions with client technical teams translating their identity infrastructure data model permissions and compliance posture into a deployment plan the build team can execute.
• Carry the technical narrative externally. You can sit across from a client CTO walk them through the architecture defend it under pressure and adjust where the pressure is legitimate.
• Mentor the founding engineering team on architectural reasoning not by lecturing but by showing your work in ADRs reviews and the way you make trade-offs visible.

You should not apply if:

• You want to architect from a whiteboard and hand off to others. We write code we read code and we ship.
• Client conversations drain you. Half this job is in front of people who dont speak fluent engineering.
• You need consensus before deciding. We move with strong opinions loosely held emphasis on strong.

Our total rewards program is designed for your protection peace of mind and overall addition to our outstanding basics we offer a net-zero cost medical option company contributions to your HSA fertility support fully-paid parental leave a monthly stipend for your lifestyle spending account and much more.

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