About the Position

We are looking for a Web Application Architect to join the Cinema team 😊

About Our Client

Our client is an entertainment technology company, specializing in motion-picture technologies and large-format motion-picture presentations.

Position Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced Web Application Architect to lead the design, evolution, and operational excellence of our customer-facing web applications and digital experience platforms. This role owns the architecture of scalable, secure, high-performing web applications delivered through modern cloud-native and JAMStack patterns. The Web Application Architect works across application architecture, API design, content delivery, cloud services, authentication, commerce integrations, observability, and customer data collection.

Responsibilities

Architect and lead development of large-scale customer-facing web applications
Own technical architecture for web and digital experience platforms
Design scalable, fault-tolerant, secure, and maintainable application architectures
Lead architecture for JAMStack applications, API-driven frontends, Cloudflare delivery, AWS services, and backend integrations
Own backend architecture and data flows across APIs, databases, external feeds, and third-party services
Architect integrations with headless CMS platforms, especially Contentful, and other content/data sources
Design and support integrations with commerce, customer account, location, personalization, analytics, and marketing systems
Own application-layer authentication, authorization, account management, and customer identifier implementation
Implement customer event instrumentation standards in partnership with the MarTech Solution Architect
Ensure consent and preference signals are enforced appropriately in the application layer
Establish standards for code quality, performance, security, observability, CI/CD, and maintainability
Lead production troubleshooting and architectural decision-making under real-world business and traffic constraints
Mentor engineers and guide teams on pragmatic architecture and engineering best practices

Requirements

7-10+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining commercial web applications
3+ years in an architect, staff engineer, principal engineer, technical lead, or comparable role
Proven experience supporting customer-facing applications with meaningful production scale and real user traffic, ideally 10k+ monthly active users or higher
Strong backend development experience using JavaScript and Node.js
Experience with REST and/or GraphQL APIs, JSON, XML, CSV feeds, and third-party data integrations
Strong understanding of data modeling, application performance, caching, API design, and integration patterns
Hands-on AWS experience, including cloud-native application architecture
Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for web applications and backend services
Familiarity with Cloudflare, CDN architecture, edge caching, web security, and global content delivery
Experience with JAMStack, static/dynamic rendering tradeoffs, API-driven frontends, and headless CMS platforms
Strong production debugging, incident response, and performance optimization skills
Upper-intermediate or higher English level

Nice to Have

Contentful or comparable headless CMS platforms
Shopify or comparable commerce platform integrations
Segment, GA4, Mixpanel, or comparable instrumentation and analytics tools
Customer authentication, identity, account management, and consent enforcement patterns
Firebase, Mapbox, mobile-web integrations, or location-based digital experiences
Accessibility, SEO, Core Web Vitals, experimentation, personalization, or digital commerce optimization
Experience in entertainment, media, ticketing, commerce, subscription, or high-traffic consumer digital businesses

Success Measures

Web applications are scalable, secure, reliable, and performant
Digital experiences integrate cleanly with content, commerce, customer account, analytics, and MarTech platforms
Customer events are captured accurately and consistently at the source
Application-layer consent and privacy requirements are implemented effectively
Engineering teams have clear architecture standards, reusable patterns, and reduced technical debt
Production issues are diagnosed and resolved quickly with strong observability and operational discipline

We Offer

15 fully paid business days of vacation
15 fully paid sick leaves
11+ fully paid public holidays
Compensation for health insurance and sport club membership/well-being needs
English courses
Learning platforms
Ability to work from home or remotely 😊

About the Company