Chief Architect

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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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

• Partner deeply with engineering leadership and senior engineers
• Raise the technical bar through clarity, credibility, and sound judgment
• Act as a force multiplier, not a bottleneck

What You Bring

• Deep technical judgment and strong systems thinking
• Ability to reason from first principles and communicate tradeoffs clearly
• Strong understanding of modern SaaS architecture, APIs, distributed systems, data design, and platform evolution
• Ability to balance long-term design with practical delivery needs
• We care less about how many years you’ve been called an architect and more about whether you can actually lead architecture at this level

What We’re Looking For

• Real technical depth
• High credibility with strong engineers
• Pragmatic, not theoretical
• Can simplify complexity
• Understands AI-native architecture direction
• Wants to shape a company, not just review diagrams