Job Summary
Photon is seeking a Backend Architect to define and drive the architecture, scalability, and modernization of large-scale cloud-native backend platforms for enterprise e-commerce and loyalty ecosystems within the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) domain.
This role focuses on architecting highly scalable APIs, distributed event-driven systems, cloud-native microservices, and enterprise integration platforms using Python (FastAPI) and AWS-native technologies. The Backend Architect will provide strategic technical leadership across backend engineering programs, ensuring scalable, resilient, secure, and business-aligned platform capabilities supporting digital ordering, loyalty, identity, payments, and customer engagement journeys.
The ideal candidate has deep expertise in distributed backend systems, cloud-native architectures, event-driven platforms, enterprise integrations, and large-scale digital ecosystems, with strong exposure to QSR, retail, or consumer-facing commerce platforms.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of backend engineering and architecture experience with strong expertise in Python-based backend ecosystems.
- Deep expertise in FastAPI, REST API architecture, asynchronous programming, and distributed systems design.
- Proven experience architecting and leading large-scale event-driven platforms and cloud-native microservices ecosystems.
- Strong understanding of data structures, distributed computing, event processing, and high-performance backend architecture.
- Extensive experience designing scalable systems on AWS cloud platforms.
- Proven experience defining enterprise backend architecture for high-scale distributed systems and customer-facing digital platforms.
- Strong understanding of e-commerce ecosystems, digital ordering workflows, loyalty programs, identity systems, and customer engagement platforms.
- Experience defining architecture standards for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), DevOps, and observability practices.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
- Direct experience with Paytronix or similar enterprise loyalty platforms.
- Experience in QSR, retail, hospitality, or large-scale consumer digital ecosystems.
- Exposure to Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS MSK, and enterprise event-streaming platforms.
- Experience with feature flags, canary deployments, blue-green deployments, and progressive delivery models.
- Knowledge of OAuth2, JWT, identity federation, and enterprise API security frameworks.
- Exposure to multi-region cloud architectures, global scalability strategies, and enterprise resiliency patterns.
- Experience driving enterprise modernization and digital transformation initiatives.
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