Staff Software Architect - Advanced

Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services, including insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and more throughout North America.

We believe pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well-being of pets. As a leading authority in the pet category, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents. Our multi-brand and omni-channel approach include our own insurance carrier, insurance brands and partner brands. 

About Clarus 

Clarus is a pet health data technology company modernizing how information flows between insurers, veterinarians, and pet owners. We build cloud-native platforms that power automation, real-time decisioning, and trusted data exchange across the pet healthcare ecosystem. Our engineering culture emphasizes strong domain ownership, modern architecture, and tight alignment between Product, Architecture, and Engineering. 

The Role 

We are hiring Staff Software Architects to translate product vision into scalable technical reality. 

Architecture at Clarus sits at the critical intersection of Product strategy, domain modeling, and engineering execution. You will work upstream with Product to shape solutions and downstream with engineering teams to ensure designs are implementable, maintainable, and aligned with our long-term platform strategy. 

You are not a slideware architect — you define domain boundaries, integration patterns, and technical design standards that directly drive how teams build software. 

This role is ideal for someone who excels at: 

• Turning ambiguous product ideas into structured domain designs 

• Deciding when to extend existing systems vs introduce new domains 

• Designing distributed, event-driven systems in a modern Azure ecosystem 

Where You Fit in Our Delivery Process 

Clarus follows a structured Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) from discovery through execution. Architecture plays a pivotal role in the early and middle phases: 

• Partner with Product during Discovery & Solutioning to assess feasibility and shape solution direction 

• Lead Architecture and Technical Design stages by decomposing features into domains, services, and integration patterns 

• Enable Engineering during Sprint Planning & Execution by providing clear, implementable technical designs 

Your job is to ensure that what enters engineering is: 

• Technically viable 

• Architecturally consistent 

• Aligned with platform standards 

What You Will Own 

1. Domain Architecture & System Decomposition 

• Translate product initiatives into domain-level architecture 

• Define when to enhance existing bounded contexts versus introduce new domains 

• Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to establish clear service boundaries 

• Prevent tight coupling by enforcing proper integration patterns 

You are the steward of domain clarity and long-term system shape. 

2. Event-Driven & Distributed Systems Design 

• Define asynchronous communication patterns using Azure Service Bus and Event Grid 

• Design resilient, decoupled services that maintain data integrity in distributed systems 

• Establish patterns for state management and eventual consistency 

• Guide teams on trade-offs between synchronous APIs and event-based flows 

3. Azure Application Architecture 

Design the application layer using our core Azure stack: 

• Azure Functions for event-driven/serverless workloads 

• Azure App Service for web and API workloads 

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) where container orchestration is required