About the Opportunity
Our client develops an industry-leading digital plant management and operational software platform used by major global manufacturers—specifically within the Food & Beverage sector—to unify production, quality control, and compliance.
We are seeking an urgent, long-term Technical Architect or Tech Lead to join the core team in Grapevine, Texas. This is a highly collaborative, hands-on engineering leadership role. Because you will be interacting directly with localized manufacturing platform frameworks and core engineering teams, this position requires working onsite in Grapevine, TX 4 days a week (with 1 day work-from-home).
Note: Previous title is secondary. We are looking for an engineering leader who balances strong technical fundamentals with practical problem-solving, solution design, hands-on coding, and true end-to-end ownership. We are open to strong Lead candidates who demonstrate Architect-level thinking.
Core Responsibilities & Deliverables
- Solution Architecture: Design scalable, maintainable, and practical software solutions for a high-throughput plant management platform.
- Hands-on Coding & Execution: Actively participate in coding, white-boarding, and architectural prototyping; this is not a purely conceptual or managerial role.
- System Ownership: Take complete accountability for technical outcomes across multiple layers of the stack, avoiding siloes or component-only boundaries.
- Technical Leadership: Guide the engineering team, lead system design discussions, and evaluate trade-offs confidently before proposing final directions.
- Stakeholder Presentation: Articulate complex technical alternatives and defend architectural decisions clearly to both technical and business executives.
Technical Requirements & Qualifications
- Experience: 10 to 15 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Background Preference: Highly value candidates from product-focused environments, start-ups, or small organizations where you owned complete solutions end-to-end. (Candidates whose experience is primarily limited to large-enterprise environments with narrowly defined responsibilities may not be the best fit).
- Engineering Fundamentals: Mastery of object-oriented design, SOLID principles, design patterns, clean code practices, API/service design, fault tolerance, and security.
- Data Structures & Algorithms: Strong capability to reason through complex algos and solve real-world problems via active whiteboard coding.
- Database Expertise: Exceptional understanding of data modeling, relational databases, query optimization, indexing, transactions, concurrency, and data integrity.
- System Design: Deep experience designing for massive scalability, high availability, performance optimization, and cross-system integration.
Interview Structure & Focus
Candidates must be prepared for a rigorous evaluation focused on execution, architecture trade-offs, and communication:
- Internal Rounds: 1st Technical Interview + 2nd Technical Interview & Prep Call.
- Client Rounds: 1st Virtual Technical Interview + 2nd Technical In-Person Interview (Mandatory at the Grapevine, TX office).
Compliance & Workforce Policies
- Work Authorization:Engagement Model: Open to established independent 1099 contractors holding a valid Certificate of Insurance (COI) and active business registration.
Recruitment Policy: We are executing this hiring need internally. Submissions from third-party staffing agencies, C2C brokers, or offshore placement firms will be automatically disqualified.
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