Python Backend Technical Architect

Technical Architect

Duration: Long Term

Location: Tempe, AZ (Remote)  

Job Summary: Client is seeking a Backend Architect to define and drive the architecture, scalability, and modernization of large-scale cloud-native backend platforms for enterprise e-commerce and loyalty ecosystems within the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) domain. This role focuses on architecting highly scalable APIs, distributed event-driven systems, cloud-native microservices, and enterprise integration platforms using Python (FastAPI) and AWS-native technologies. The Backend Architect will provide strategic technical leadership across backend engineering programs, ensuring scalable, resilient, secure, and business-aligned platform capabilities supporting digital ordering, loyalty, identity, payments, and customer engagement journeys. You will collaborate closely with engineering leaders, product teams, enterprise architects, DevOps, and business stakeholders to define modern backend architecture standards, integration strategies, platform governance, and long-term technology roadmaps. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in distributed backend systems, cloud-native architectures, event-driven platforms, enterprise integrations, and large-scale digital ecosystems, with strong exposure to QSR, retail, or consumer-facing commerce platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

·        Architecture Strategy & Platform Leadership

·        Define and own backend architecture strategy for enterprise e-commerce, loyalty, identity, and customer engagement platforms.

·        Architect scalable, cloud-native, and event-driven backend ecosystems using Python (FastAPI) and AWS-native services.

·        Establish architecture standards, governance models, engineering principles, and platform best practices across backend systems.

·        Drive platform modernization initiatives, integration architecture, and reusable service design patterns.

·        Define scalable hub-and-spoke orchestration architectures for integrating loyalty, commerce, payment, CMS, identity, and customer engagement platforms.

·        Provide architectural leadership across multiple engineering programs and enterprise delivery initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

·        12+ years of backend engineering and architecture experience with strong expertise in Python-based backend ecosystems. 

·        Deep expertise in FastAPI, REST API architecture, asynchronous programming, and distributed systems design. 

·        Proven experience architecting and leading large-scale event-driven platforms and cloud-native microservices ecosystems. 

·        Strong understanding of data structures, distributed computing, event processing, and high-performance backend architecture. 

·        Extensive experience designing scalable systems on AWS cloud platforms. 

·        Proven experience defining enterprise backend architecture for high-scale distributed systems and customer-facing digital platforms. 

·        Strong understanding of e-commerce ecosystems, digital ordering workflows, loyalty programs, identity systems, and customer engagement platforms. 

·        Experience defining architecture standards for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), DevOps, and observability practices. 

·        Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills. 

Nice to Have:

·        Direct experience with Paytronix or similar enterprise loyalty platforms. 

·        Experience in QSR, retail, hospitality, or large-scale consumer digital ecosystems. 

·        Exposure to Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS MSK, and enterprise event-streaming platforms. 

·        Experience with feature flags, canary deployments, blue-green deployments, and progressive delivery models. 

·        Knowledge of OAuth2, JWT, identity federation, and enterprise API security frameworks. 

·        Exposure to multi-region cloud architectures, global scalability strategies, and enterprise resiliency patterns. 

·        Experience driving enterprise modernization and digital transformation initiatives.

Regards,

Vipin Tiwari

Direct No.:
Techridge Inc.