Software Architect (North America)

About the Position

Lateral stands for technology excellence. We’re a profitable, award-winning design and technology company with over 20 years of experience launching bold ventures and transforming businesses. A globally distributed team of 200+ experts united by a shared purpose: the continuous pursuit of quality.

Our clients come to us for results, quality, and craft - and stay because we keep raising the bar.

We Do Things Differently at Lateral

Our mission is simple: design and build great products. What sets us apart isn’t just the talent of our team - it’s the way we work:

• We Have A Bias For Action & Results.
• We Work On Time, On Budget, On Quality
• We Care Deeply.
• We Do Things Right - Because It’s the Right Thing to Do
• We Keep Improving
• We’re Obsessed With Agility, Not The Agile Manifesto
• We Take Ownership

Responsibilities

As a Solutions Architect at Lateral, your role is to connect business ambition with the technology needed to deliver it. You will shape solutions, guide technical direction, and partner directly with clients, while supporting our delivery teams with clarity, structure, and sound architectural judgment.

You will:

• Lead solution definition for key initiatives: architecture, technical approach, integration strategy, cloud alignment, and delivery feasibility.
• Work directly with client executives and product leaders to translate business needs into scalable, modern architectures across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to turn architectural direction into actionable plans, balancing quality, velocity, and pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Conduct architecture assessments, review existing systems, and define modernization, migration, or greenfield approaches.
• Develop solution proposals, SOWs, estimates, and architectural documentation for pre-sales and delivery.
• Represent Lateral in early conversations with hyperscalers. As part of a strategic initiative, you’ll help build partner relationships with AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Support delivery teams through ongoing architectural decisions, technical guidance, and risk identification.
• Champion clarity and quality: ensuring our solutions are maintainable, well-structured, secure, and aligned with long-term business value.

Requirements

We’re looking for a seasoned architect with a consulting mindset, someone who is equally strong in technical depth, stakeholder communication, and problem framing.

You must bring:

• 7+ years of experience in technical leadership roles such as Solutions Architect, Senior Architect, Principal Consultant, or similar.
• A background in consulting or services environments.
• Deep expertise in designing systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP architecture patterns, compute, storage, API design, integration strategies, observability, and deployment models.
• Strong ability to lead discovery conversations, clarify requirements, and translate business needs into technical direction.
• Experience shaping architecture for complex systems, SaaS products, integrations, distributed systems, and modern cloud applications.
• Excellent communication skills: you can explain tradeoffs, options, and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong consultancy instincts: pre-sales exposure, client advisory work, and solution packaging are second nature to you.
• A preference for modern software engineering (cloud-native, serverless, event-driven, container-based, or hybrid approaches).
• Comfort working in ambiguity, shaping clarity, and bringing structure to complex technical and business problems.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Real Impact: You’ll work on meaningful products that make a measurable difference - from healthcare and commerce to sustainability and next-gen tech.
• Remote-First, Office Friendly: Work from wherever you’re most productive - whether that’s your home, a co-working space, or one of our offices. We’re a remote-first company, but if you’re near an office, you’re welcome to drop in, collaborate in person, or work onsite regularly. We prioritize async collaboration, respect your time zone, and focus on outcomes over hours.
• An Outstanding Team: Talented, kind, and hard-working people who care deeply about their craft - and about each other. No egos. No politics. Just professionals doing their best work.
• Growth: You’ll be supported in growing your craft, exploring new paths, and stepping into greater responsibility - at your own pace.
• A Culture of Excellence: We care deeply about doing the right thing - for our clients, our team, and ourselves. No burnout. No crunch. Just high-quality work, delivered sustainably.
• Variety & Stability: We’re profitable, independent, and over a decade strong. Yet every project brings a fresh challenge. You’ll never be bored here.

This Role Might Not Be for You

We want to respect your time by being clear about what this role isn’t. You should skip this opportunity if:

• You prefer well defined structure. If you gravitate towards a clear hierarchy, well defined roles and swim lanes, you may find our self-managed style challenging.
• Distributed work isn’t your thing. If you find async communication, design documentation, and being proactive without a manager nearby difficult, our setup won’t suit you.
• Feedback doesn't excite you. We’re obsessed with quality and believe in continuous improvement. That means we give feedback that’s sometimes nitpicky. If refining the work until it’s excellent feels over the top, you are likely going to find working here frustrating.
• Change makes you uncomfortable. We’re scaling and maturing. That means not everything is perfect yet. Priorities shift. Processes evolve. If ambiguity is uncomfortable, this may feel bumpy.

However, If this sounds like fuel, we’d love to talk!

How to Apply and What to Expect in the Interview Process

01. Your work

Show us the work that reflects you at your best. We’ll look at depth, design thinking, and the logic behind your choices.

02. Lateral team fit

You’ll speak with our Talent team about your career direction, your motivators, and our plans ahead.

03. Work trial

You’ll tackle a take-home challenge that mirrors what we actually do.

04. Engineering deep dive

A collaborative session with our engineers.

05. Project fit

An interview focused on prioritization, collaboration across disciplines, and how you handle the "messy middle".