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Chief Architect

Remote, USA, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Jun 2026

About the role

Employ is transforming how hiring gets done. With our three ATS solutions - Jobvite, Lever, and JazzHR - plus cutting-edge AI Companions, we free recruiters from admin work and give them more time for what matters: connecting with people. More than 23,000 global customers rely on Employ to make millions of candidate connections each year, helping them hire smarter, faster, and at scale. From growing startups to the world’s most recognized brands, we’re redefining what’s possible in talent acquisition.

We’re a fast-moving, remote-first team of builders and innovators who live our people-first philosophy every day. We back it up with flexible work scheduling and paid time off, comprehensive benefits, and career development opportunities that help you thrive. At Employ, you won’t just grow your career - you’ll help millions of others grow theirs.

Come join our team where we have each other’s backs, champion our customers, hold ourselves accountable, and shape what’s next in talent acquisition.

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About the Opportunity

The Chief Architect is responsible for defining the technical architecture of the company’s product landscape and future.

This role will shape how the company moves from a portfolio of products and legacy architecture into a more coherent, unified, AI-enabled platform. You will define target-state architecture, identify the highest-value technical interventions, guide major technical decisions, and help engineering leadership make better long-term tradeoffs.

This is not an ivory tower architecture role. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can combine first-principles technical thinking with practical execution. You must be able to see the future clearly enough to drive toward it and stay grounded enough to help teams ship.

Success means sharper technical direction, fewer fragmented decisions, better platform coherence, stronger architectural integrity, and a credible path from today’s complexity to tomorrow’s platform.

About the Team

You will report to the CTO and work closely with Product Engineering, Product Flow, VP of AI, platform leaders, and senior engineers. You may lead a Vanguard Engineering capability focused on prototyping and validating future-state architecture and leading the charge delivering the hardest to architect and build product areas.

What You’ll Do:

Architecture Strategy

Define the target-state architecture for the company’s platform evolution
Drive architectural direction across APIs, services, integration patterns, data, identity, and AI-enabled capabilities
Help the company move from fragmented systems toward a more coherent platform model

Technical Decision Leadership

Guide major architectural decisions with clear reasoning, tradeoff analysis, and pragmatic recommendations
Identify architectural bottlenecks, duplication, scaling risks, and structural weaknesses
Focus leadership attention on the technical decisions that matter most

Governance Without Bureaucracy

Establish architecture standards, review mechanisms, and decision frameworks that improve quality without slowing teams down
Create enough discipline to drive coherence, but not so much process that architecture becomes dead weight

Vanguard Engineering & Prototyping

Lead or influence prototyping efforts for new platform capabilities, architectural shifts, and future-state patterns
Validate important ideas quickly before the company overcommits to bad assumptions

Engineering Influence