Chief Technical Architect – Go, Python
London – Hybrid
£130,000–150,000
Curated are excited to be working with a fast-growing SaaS scale-up delivering mission-critical solutions to global brands. Backed by a leading growth investor, the business is entering an exciting new phase: scaling its platform, launching new products, and expanding into new markets.
They are now looking for a Chief Technical Architect to evolve the core platform for performance, scalability, and security. You’ll set the technical strategy while staying close to the code, shaping architecture, and driving best practices across a high-performing engineering team. Ideally this individual would have seen environments larger than Series B +.
What you’ll do
→ Scale a high-traffic SaaS platform, improving reliability, latency and fault tolerance
→ Lead platform architecture for cloud-native (AWS/GCP) distributed systems
→ Collaborate with product and data teams to deliver AI-driven analytics and new features
→ Optimise infrastructure with DevOps for cost, performance and resiliency
→ Mentor engineers, raising the bar on code quality, observability and engineering culture
What we’re looking for
✔ 8+ years backend or full-stack engineering experience
✔ 3+ years in a technical leadership or architecture role
✔ Proven track record scaling SaaS or other high-traffic platforms
✔ Deep knowledge of distributed systems (microservices, queues, caching)
✔ Strong experience with Python or Go
✔ Cloud-native architecture expertise (AWS or GCP)
Why join?
→ Shape the future of a globally used platform
→ Work in a collaborative, flexible environment with real autonomy
→ Be part of a high-growth SaaS business with huge career potential
If you love solving complex engineering challenges and want to have a real impact on a scaling SaaS platform, we’d love to hear from you.