Responsibilities
- We are looking for an exceptional System Architect to lead the design and evolution of our platform architecture. This is a hands‑on role requiring deep technical expertise in building secure, scalable, and cost‑efficient systems. You will be responsible for critical architectural decisions affecting system performance, security, reliability, and modularity across our entire platform
- Design microservices and platform features from concept to production‑ready specifications
- Create technical designs for complex system components and develop proof‑of‑concepts in Golang
- Architect secure, fault‑tolerant systems with automated failover, circuit breakers, and end‑to‑end encryption
- Analyze existing system architecture to understand current implementations and plan gradual replacement of legacy components
- Plan implementation phases, migration strategies, and feature deprecation timelines
- Review and approve architectural designs from engineering teams with detailed feedback




- Lead architecture review sessions and facilitate technical decision‑making across teams
- Partner with Product Managers, Dev Leads, Security, SRE and Infrastructure teams to establish platform‑wide standards
- Lead threat modeling exercises and drive technical consensus for platform‑wide initiatives
- Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and resolve complex technical challenges
- Write comprehensive technical documentation including ADRs, design documents, runbooks, and API specifications
- Create visual system diagrams and research technical solutions from diverse sources
- Design zero‑downtime migration strategies and define acceptance criteria for architectural changes

Qualifications
- Ability to facilitate architectural decision‑making and create technical roadmaps
- Proven track record with feature flags, gradual rollouts, and zero‑downtime deployments
- Strong hands‑on Golang coding skills – must write production‑quality code
- Exceptional technical writi

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Workato
📍 Madrid