Top Software Architect Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Design and evolve the architecture of DraftKings’ regulated prediction-markets exchange. Own the technical roadmap, distributed-system foundations, scalability, reliability, performance, operational health, and resilience testing. Collaborate with product, infrastructure, platform, brokers, market makers, and clearing partners. Contribute hands-on to critical systems, guide design standards, mentor engineers, and implement AI tooling and guardrails for engineering workflows.

Designs and leads the architecture strategy for a next-generation sports betting and trading platform. Responsibilities include developing architectural roadmaps, evaluating enterprise-wide solutions, overseeing proofs of concept, governing implementation, integrating third-party solutions, communicating architecture to senior leadership, and coordinating cross-departmental technical initiatives. The role requires expertise in scalable distributed systems, cloud architecture, high-throughput platforms, microservices, and enterprise-level greenfield development.

Defines and evolves software architectures for AR-based aerospace and mission systems. Leads architecture across embedded, real-time graphics, simulation, networking, cloud, edge, AI/ML, and aircraft integration. Establishes standards for secure, scalable, safety-critical software; supports DO-178 compliance, DevSecOps, CI/CD, containerization, and digital engineering. Collaborates with engineering, product, systems, and program teams on technical baselines, interfaces, verification, customer engagements, and proposals.

Designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs software systems for an internal research and development team. Leads software architecture, system integration, process evolution, software baseline planning, gap analysis, and development of complex systems involving multiple subsystems and vendors. Collaborates with hardware engineers and equipment designers while ensuring software standards and program goals are met.

Designs and improves build and delivery infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines, automation, Kubernetes platforms, and cloud-native tooling. Enables development teams, resolves delivery blockers, implements product features, contributes to architecture and platform roadmaps, documents standards, and estimates and reports on assigned initiatives. The role requires Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, scripting, Golang or Python, software architecture, and Agile experience in a regulated healthcare environment.

Designs and improves build and delivery infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native automation, Kubernetes platforms, and infrastructure tooling. Enables development teams, resolves delivery blockers, implements product features, contributes to platform roadmaps and architectural decisions, and ensures reliability, security, and compliance in a regulated healthcare environment.

Leads software architecture and development for complex defense and space systems on an IRAD team. Responsibilities include defining software baselines, analyzing capability gaps, developing and integrating software systems and subsystems, coordinating vendors, establishing processes, and ensuring software standards. The role requires collaboration with hardware and equipment engineers, technical leadership, documentation, testing, debugging, and occasional travel.

Designs, develops, and supports enterprise-grade Python applications, distributed systems, data-processing services, and automation platforms. Responsibilities include software architecture, production troubleshooting, database optimization, large-scale data transformation, reporting, performance improvement, code reviews, mentoring, Agile delivery, CI/CD, incident response, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires building secure, reliable, and maintainable systems for mission-critical environments.

Defines solution architectures, technical standards, and technology direction for healthcare software products. Leads complex design decisions, evaluates AWS and integration technologies, promotes scalable microservices and event-driven architectures, and oversees performance, security, compliance, and reliability. Partners with Product, Program Management, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering teams to guide implementation and governance. Mentors engineers, documents architectural decisions, supports integrations, and provides technical leadership without direct people management.

Designs scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud-native applications across the enterprise. Leads software architecture, microservices, APIs, serverless, containers, DevOps, security, governance, and AI/ML integration. Advises clients and internal stakeholders, supports pre-sales activities, develops technical proposals, mentors engineering teams, evaluates emerging technologies, and guides proofs of concept and implementation handoffs.

Define software architecture, design standards, and technical direction for healthcare solutions. Lead complex system designs, technology selection, cloud and integration architecture, performance, security, compliance, and governance. Partner with Product, Program Management, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering teams to guide implementation. Establish architectural best practices, document technical decisions, mentor engineers, and support scalable microservices, event-driven, and cloud-based systems.

Leads software architecture and development for internal research and development systems in a complex defense environment. Responsibilities include defining software baselines, analyzing capability gaps and maturity, developing and integrating software systems and subsystems, evolving engineering processes, coordinating vendors, and ensuring software standards. The role requires active Secret clearance, advanced software architecture experience, configuration management expertise, team leadership, and 10% travel.

Designs and evolves DraftKings’ regulated prediction-markets exchange, including market data, order entry, matching, clearing, and settlement. Owns the technical roadmap, architecture, scalability, reliability, performance, and operational health of distributed systems. Leads resilience testing, incident improvements, design reviews, mentoring, and cross-functional technical alignment. The role also requires building practical AI tooling and guardrails, integrating with external partners, and balancing compliance, cost, and platform strategy.

Define multi-generation hardware/software architectures for AI inference silicon, including boot, memory, DMA, scheduling, security, telemetry, and host/device interfaces. Integrate firmware, Linux, runtimes, simulation, and developer tooling; lead architecture reviews; resolve cross-team technical issues; prototype high-risk interfaces; and mentor senior engineers. The role requires deep systems expertise, strong C or C++ skills, and architecture-level ownership across pre-silicon, silicon bring-up, and production software.

Lead the architecture and delivery of secure, distributed, data-intensive software for defense and intelligence missions. Design microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, data models, and integrations across mission systems, sensors, intelligence platforms, and tactical-edge environments. Provide technical leadership across Agile and SAFe delivery, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, reliability, interoperability, and deployment in disconnected or bandwidth-limited environments. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, government stakeholders, product owners, and program leadership.

Design and guide secure, distributed, cloud-native software architectures for defense and mission applications. Lead systems integration through APIs, data contracts, messaging, and mission-system interfaces. Collaborate with government customers, engineers, analysts, and product owners to translate operational needs into technical designs and delivery plans. Support Agile development, modeling and simulation integration, secure deployment, resiliency, observability, and operation across classified, disconnected, and tactical-edge environments.

Leads architecture for unified native mobile and cross-platform systems, scalable personalization and media delivery pipelines, distributed services, APIs, and client applications. Guides multi-team technology strategy, governance, security, privacy compliance, cost optimization, deployments, incident response, and code quality. Mentors engineers, conducts reviews, evaluates technologies, and contributes resilient production code across iOS, Android, cloud, CDN, and data systems.

Develop and support operational processes, documentation, requirements, system integration, deployment, troubleshooting, and sustainment for fielded mission systems. Collaborate with developers, engineers, mission stakeholders, internal teams, and external partners to maintain system functionality, interoperability, and delivery across distributed mission environments.

Leads the architecture, development, and evolution of enterprise BI and analytics solutions for healthcare coding and clinical data products. Designs data, semantic, cloud, and distributed-system architectures; builds scalable data pipelines and embedded analytics; establishes engineering standards and governance; evaluates technologies and mentors development teams. The role requires extensive software engineering and architecture experience across AWS or Azure, analytics platforms, data modeling, ETL, security, reliability, and large-scale data processing.

Design and scale distributed, high-availability systems and platform architectures. Define frameworks, tooling, and standards, contribute hands-on to prototypes and production, guide teams on reliability, observability, and operational excellence, and align technical decisions with product and business priorities.

Lead cross-cutting architecture for a globally distributed fraud-detection platform. Own end-to-end system architecture, identify scaling and reliability risks, establish API and service standards, guide foundational initiatives, and drive adoption across eight engineering groups. Mentor Staff engineers, lead design reviews, advise executives on technical strategy and risk, establish AI-assisted engineering practices, and remain hands-on with prototypes, documentation, and production issues.

Define scalable SaaS architecture and technical direction while remaining hands-on in software development. Design APIs, integrations, security, and modernization roadmaps; establish engineering standards and DevSecOps practices; write production code; lead architecture and code reviews; coordinate development and QA teams; and ensure secure, accessible, compliant platform delivery.

Provides architectural oversight for complex mainframe software products and mission-critical systems. Designs and validates enterprise architectures, documents components and interfaces, advises technical teams, integrates developer-built components, and communicates with technical, non-technical, and government stakeholders. Requires extensive COBOL and mainframe expertise, healthcare claims and CMS experience, Agile/SAFe knowledge, and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for Keeper’s cross-platform browser extension architecture. Design secure, scalable solutions using JavaScript and TypeScript; guide extension components, messaging, storage, APIs, native integrations, performance, and reliability. Lead architecture and design reviews, security collaboration, modernization efforts, and cross-functional technical decisions while mentoring senior engineers. The role requires broad full-stack expertise across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, databases, application security, CI/CD, and modern web technologies.

Architect and develop the spacecraft software platform for Blue Origin’s orbital data centers. Responsibilities include distributed workload orchestration, custom scheduling, container management, control-plane APIs, multi-tenancy, networking, storage, high availability, failure recovery, and resource optimization under power, thermal, and connectivity constraints. The role leads technical strategy, validation, testing, and cross-functional co-design with hardware and application teams.