Senior Software Architect

Job Title: Sr Software Architect
Classification: Exempt (Salaried)
Reports to: CTO

Location: Austin, TX

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Software Architect who will be responsible for helping to lead feature design and execution, driving AI-first development practices, and ensuring our platforms are scalable, secure, and high-performing. This role is both strategic and hands-on, actively contributing to mission-critical initiatives.
About inKind:

inKind is a mission-driven company. Its mission is to empower restaurants and enrich customer experiences. 

We achieve this by:

• Providing flexible funding solutions to restaurants, helping them thrive and overcome financial challenges.
• Building a loyalty platform that connects customers with their favorite restaurants and rewards them for their support.
• Creating stronger communities by supporting local businesses and fostering connections between restaurants and customers.

We're on a journey to:

• Transforming the restaurant industry: inKind aims to reshape how restaurants access funding, operate, and connect with customers.
• Creating a thriving restaurant ecosystem: They strive to build a sustainable and prosperous environment for restaurants by providing resources and opportunities.
• Empowering restaurateurs: inKind seeks to equip owners with the tools and support they need to achieve their dreams and build fulfilling careers.
• Enhancing customer experiences: Their goal is to provide customers with diverse and rewarding dining experiences while celebrating local businesses.

And we are looking for passionate Architects and Engineers to join us in building and scaling our technology platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical vision and architectural leadership, and AI-driven feature execution across engineering teams, ensuring cohesion across systems, services, and platforms.
• Drive decision-making for foundational system components: service boundaries, infrastructure standards, platform interfaces, and data architecture.

• Champion an “AI-first” engineering culture by evaluating, designing, and implementing AI-native capabilities into the core product development lifecycle and internal tooling.
• Partner with product, design, and data teams to prioritize and integrate ML/AI solutions that create operational leverage and customer value.

• Design resilient, scalable, and high-performance systems that support inKind’s rapid growth across all tools, internal, and customer facing.
• Lead reviews for critical architecture and code decisions with an eye for long-term maintainability, observability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Influence cloud infrastructure strategy in areas such as CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code, security, and networking.

• When necessary work hands on to prototype, unblock teams, and drive execution during high-priority or high-risk initiatives.
• Set technical standards and best practices via code contributions, design documents, and peer reviews.
• Partner directly with the CTO and other senior leadership to shape and communicate long-term technical roadmaps.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering, product, data science, and business stakeholders, aligning technical vision with company priorities.

Essential Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience as a Software Architect 
• Proficient with AI-assisted coding tools like Cursor, Codex, Claude Swarm, or similar.
• Expertise on designing scalable performant data models at the data base and api level.
• Strong experience with ReactJS for frontend development.
• Expert-level knowledge of SQL and relational data modeling.
• Proficient in at least one modern backend framework (Node.js, Django, Rails, etc.).
• Proven track record of building products or complex features from the ground up.
• Background building, maintaining, and supporting high-traffic production systems
• Strong communicator able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in end-to-end feature ownership in production environments.
• A solid grasp of security concerns relevant when designing endpoint payloads.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with Rails or Python microservices.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or AWS deployment pipelines.
• Experience building or maintaining scalable distributed systems.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity to work on meaningful projects that make a real impact
• Collaborative and supportive work environment
• Chance to learn and grow with a talented team
• On-Site, Remote & Hybrid work culture
  

inKind is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that diversity is vital to inKind's ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability status, veteran status, or any other protected category have no bearing on our hiring decisions. 

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.