Software Engineering Architect

Company Overview

is an ecosystem of successful brands working together across regions to provide customers with everything they need to succeed online. 60+ successful brands make up the group; with a team of 2700 experts serving its 3.3 million customers across Europe and beyond.

's brands are a mix of traditional hosting businesses, offering services from domain names, email, shared hosting, e-commerce and server hosting solutions and specialist SaaS providers offering adjacent products such as compliance, marketing tools and team collaboration products. This broad product offering makes it a one-stop partner for online businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineering Architect to join our Software Architecture team. The Software Engineering Architect will be assigned a Product Unit where together with the teams and technical leaders will ensure scalable, efficient, and high-performance solutions are developed, mentor and be a technical liaison.

Ideal candidates will have a strong technical background, proven experience, and excellent communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

•  Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and frameworks.
•  Partner with product, engineering, DevOps, and security leaders to design and evolve system architectures that support current and future business goals
•  Conduct architectural reviews, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure best practices in software design, performance, security, and reliability
•  Ensure adherence to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and implement best practices for quality assurance and security.
•  Utilize tools and methodologies to measure and maintain high levels of software security and quality.
•  Establish and maintain robust architecture documentation practices, ensuring clarity, traceability, and long-term maintainability of system designs.
•  Provide technical and architectural leadership to a designated product unit, wor-king in tandem with the Director of Software Engineering.
•  Collaborate with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure scala-ble, maintainable, and high-quality software solutions.
•  Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, long-term technology vi-sion, and company-wide standards.
•  Identify and drive opportunities for technical synergies, reuse, and innovation across teams and domains.
•  Support the Principal Software Engineering Architect in defining architecture road-maps, evaluating new technologies, and shaping architectural governance.
•  Mentor and guide development teams on architectural best practices, software design principles, and system optimization.
•  Contribute to the creation and refinement of technical documentation, design blueprints, and architectural patterns.
•  Participate in strategic planning, contributing to the long-term scalability and performance of applications and services.

Qualifications:

•  10+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in an architectural role
•  Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
•  Strong expertise in designing scalable and secure software architectures.
•  Deep understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and API design.
•  Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g., PHP, Java, Python, C#, JavaScript).
•  Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
•  Strong problem-solving skills with a strategic and analytical mindset.
•  Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
•  Comprehensive understanding of SDLC, quality assurance practices, and security measures.
•  Demonstrated experience in authoring and maintaining architecture documentation, blueprints, and standards.
•  Experience with tools for automated testing, security scanning, and performance monitoring.
•  Strong analytical skills and a strategic mindset
•  Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken