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Position: Lead Full-Stack Cloud Architect Level: Senior / Lead Location: 100% Remote, Miami-based Compensation: Competitive Hourly Rate, 12+ month contract Reports to: Product Owner Job Number: 7381 Overview We're building a subscription, multi-tenant HR platform, engineered to financial-industry-grade cloud standards, with proprietary client HR data held in strict per-client silos. This is the architect seat: you decide the stack — AWS or Azure, and whatever persistence/load-balancing approach each client actually needs — not just build to spec. You're expected to bring “here's how I'd build it,” not ask for one. What You'll Build • The web client (your framework choice — justify it) • The overall cloud architecture: cloud provider decision (AWS or Azure), persistence tier strategy (MongoDB vs. relational, decided per client where it matters), load-balancing topology, authentication approach, containerization strategy • Technical decision-making for a “mission control” style backend that isolates proprietary client HR data in silos, not a shared multi-tenant table Must Have • 7+ years full-stack, with real ownership of architecture decisions (not just implementation) on multiple large-scale systems • Deep AWS or Azure experience — genuine infrastructure ownership, not just deployment; if AWS, hands-on Lambda architecture experience • Experience from large-scale financial or regulated institutions (JPMorgan-caliber environments or equivalent) — the product is HR software, but the uptime and data-isolation discipline this role needs comes from that kind of environment • Demonstrated experience running different persistence/scaling configurations per customer or tenant in a single platform • Strong, defensible opinions on stack choices, backed by tradeoff reasoning Explicitly Not Looking For • NOT looking for an AI-centric dev who lacks real hands-on programming chops • NOT looking for Node.js as primary backend stack • PROBABLY NOT C#/.NET-centric backgrounds (strong preference against) • Order-takers — if you ask what stack to use instead of proposing one, it's a no Nice to Have • Strong contract/consulting work where you've owned architecture for an external client • Experience building HR-adjacent or people-data platforms Not for you? Referrals welcome, Sherlock loves to share $1,000 referral success bonuses. Add your name in the referral field of the application form.

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Position: Lead Full-Stack Cloud Architect
Level: Senior / Lead
Location: 100% Remote, Miami-based
Compensation: Competitive Hourly Rate, 12+ month contract
Reports to: Product Owner
Job Number: 7381
What You'll Build
The web client (your framework choice — justify it)
Technical decision-making for a “mission control” style backend that isolates proprietary client HR data in silos, not a shared multi-tenant table
7+ years full-stack, with real ownership of architecture decisions (not just implementation) on multiple large-scale systems
Deep AWS or Azure experience — genuine infrastructure ownership, not just deployment; if AWS, hands-on Lambda architecture experience
Demonstrated experience running different persistence/scaling configurations per customer or tenant in a single platform
Strong, defensible opinions on stack choices, backed by tradeoff reasoning
Explicitly Not Looking For
NOT looking for an AI-centric dev who lacks real hands-on programming chops
NOT looking for Node.js as primary backend stack
PROBABLY NOT C#/.NET-centric backgrounds (strong preference against)
Order-takers — if you ask what stack to use instead of proposing one, it's a no

Nice-to-haves

Strong contract/consulting work where you've owned architecture for an external client
Experience building HR-adjacent or people-data platforms
Not for you? Referrals welcome, Sherlock loves to share $1,000 referral success bonuses. Add your name in the referral field of the application form.

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