Staff Engineer Application Architect

Job Description

Benefits:

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Opportunity for advancement

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Wellness resources

Job Title: Staff Engineer Application Architect

Location: Hybrid (Boston, MA area)

Department: Engineering

Reports To: VP of Engineering

About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to serve as the application architect for FacilityGrids SaaS platform. This role owns the technical direction of our application layer a PHP/Laravel backend, an Angular/TypeScript frontend, and supporting microservices while maintaining working familiarity with the underlying cloud infrastructure and deployment platform. You will be the technical decision-maker for how our application systems evolve, ensuring architectural coherence across a growing codebase and team.

FacilityGrid is an AI-first company. We expect every team member to actively leverage AI-based tooling to work faster and solve problems more effectively. Candidates who already incorporate AI into their development workflow will stand out.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will write code, review designs, mentor engineers, and drive the technical strategy that enables FacilityGrid to scale its construction and facilities management platform.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

Own the application architecture across backend, frontend, and service layers

Evolve and maintain the layered patterns and conventions that govern the codebase

Drive API design decisions across versioned REST endpoints

Author and maintain Technical Design Documents for significant system changes

Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and technology adoption proposals

Establish and enforce coding standards, testing strategies, and review practices

Application Development

Contribute production code in PHP/Laravel and TypeScript/Angular

Design data models, migrations, and schema evolution strategies

Architect integration patterns for external platforms and third-party APIs

Design frontend state management and data-intensive UI patterns

Optimize application performance across the full stack (caching, queues, CDN)

Platform Awareness

Collaborate with platform engineering on deployment architecture and container orchestration

Understand containerized build and CI/CD pipelines well enough to troubleshoot application-layer issues

Participate in infrastructure design reviews involving GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code

Contribute to observability strategy and application-level instrumentation

Mentorship & Team Development

Mentor mid-level and senior engineers through code review, pairing, and design discussions

Raise the technical bar across the engineering organization

Translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and decomposed deliverables

Bridge communication between product, engineering, and infrastructure teams

Qualifications

Required

8+ years of professional software engineering experience

Deep expertise in PHP/Laravel you understand the framework internals, not just the API surface

Strong experience with Angular or comparable TypeScript SPA frameworks

Proven track record of designing and evolving application architectures at scale across multiple teams

Experience with relational database design, query optimization, and migration management

Familiarity with RESTful API design, OAuth2 authentication flows, and multi-tenant SaaS patterns

Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)

Strong written communication you can author clear technical design documents and ADRs

Willingness to use AI-based development tools as a core part of your workflow

Preferred

Experience with construction, facilities management, or field-service SaaS domains

Familiarity with construction management platform integrations (e.g., Procore)

Experience with GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code tooling

Background with RBAC systems and enterprise SSO/SCIM provisioning

Experience with observability platforms and distributed tracing

Experience leading large-scale platform migrations merging separate applications, consolidating data models, or unifying multiple systems onto a single platform

Key Competencies

Systems thinking you see how changes ripple across layers and teams

Pragmatic decision-making you choose the right level of abstraction, not the most clever one

Strong ownership you drive outcomes, not just write code

Effective communicator across technical and non-technical audiences

Continuous improvement mindset with a bias toward simplicity

Why Join Us

Define the technical direction of a growing SaaS platform in the construction/facilities space

High-autonomy, high-impact role with direct influence on architecture and engineering culture

Modern infrastructure stack with investment in developer experience and automation

Opportunity to shape engineering practices and team growth from a senior technical position

Flexible work from home options available.

Full-time

Hybrid remote