Senior Software Architect (Backend & Distributed Systems)

Position: Senior Software Architect (Backend & Distributed Systems)

Location: Remote (Pakistan)

Job Type: Full-time

Work Hours: 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM PST (10:00 PM - 06:00 AM PKT)

Role Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Architect who can design resilient, scalable backend systems powering data-heavy applications. You will be responsible for architecting systems, making key technical decisions, and actively coding and building backend services that drive our core platforms. This role involves hands-on system design, translating complex requirements into robust architectures, and leading through execution with strong development expertise. It is a leadership-through-execution role, combining strategic architectural thinking with deep implementation and system design skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve backend systems that support high-volume traffic and production workloads.
• Lead major architectural improvements across APIs, crawlers, data ingestion pipelines, and core services.
• Design distributed systems with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Build new production systems from scratch while modernizing legacy components.
• Define system-level strategies for observability, failure handling, and long-term maintainability.
• Break down complex technical initiatives into clear, executable components.
• Drive performance optimization and infrastructure efficiency.
• Collaborate directly with leadership on long-term technical direction.
• Mentor engineers through architecture reviews, system design discussions, and engineering best practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in backend engineering or system architecture.
• Proven track record designing and maintaining high-traffic production systems.
• Strong experience with APIs, distributed systems, and backend services at scale.
• Systems thinking mindset: concurrency, performance bottlenecks, scaling strategies, failure modes, and resiliency.
• Ability to independently make high-impact architectural decisions.
• Experience in data-heavy systems, crawling infrastructure, or network-related systems is highly valuable.
• Python experience is a plus.
• Comfortable using AI-assisted tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) to enhance engineering productivity.

Nice to Have

• Experience evolving legacy systems.
• Background in data-heavy systems (feeds, crawlers, analytics pipelines).
• Infrastructure, scalability, and performance tuning experience.
• Mentoring mid- and senior-level developers.

Benefits & Perks

• Fully remote work.
• Healthcare coverage for you and your family.
• Paid leave, vacation, and holidays.
• Equipment allowance for home office setup.
• Profit sharing and performance-based bonuses.
• Long-term growth and collaborative team culture.

About Us: AutoScale Ventures is a technology-driven company with 50+ team members across the Philippines, Pakistan, India, the U.S., China, and Canada. We operate a group of businesses spanning tech, data services, and infrastructure, and AI, with some of our main products and ventures around:

• Vehicledata (VinAudit.com)
• Proxy infrastructure solutions (SquidProxies.com)

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We look forward to meeting the right person for this role!