Director of Software Architecture

Who You Are:

Hometap is hiring a Director of Software Architecture to lead the foundational technology decisions that shape how our Technical Product Organization (TPO) builds and scales. You'll identify, prioritize, and execute architecture improvements, while growing and supporting the current architecture team. This role sits at the intersection of deep hands-on technical work, technical product management, and leadership. You'll partner closely with engineering management, product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver value to homeowners, investment partners, and the Hometap team. This position reports to the CIO.

What you’ll do:

• Manage a team of architects and contribute directly to bringing organization-wide beneficial technologies to fruition
• Lead the charge in identifying how AI, particularly generative AI, can be leveraged across the company, including code generation, technical design and architecture, refactoring legacy codebases, and test generation
• Mentor architects from diverse backgrounds and technology environments so they can operate effectively at Hometap and incorporate architectural best practices in their work
• Drive the establishment and evolution of our architecture methodology, including the education and upskilling of the technical team
• Look ahead at the product roadmap to identify where architectural investment is needed
• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering Management to prioritize, resource, and execute software architecture work across TPO
• Communicate regularly at all levels of the company about current architectural efforts, their benefits, and our future technology vision
• Play a key role in technical brainstorming, decision-making, and engineering process improvements

What you'll bring:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical growth, a substantial amount of time in a Software Architect position, and people management experience
• Expert understanding of all things SDLC, including but not limited to: cloud architectures, AWS, pragmatic application of AI/ML tooling with appropriate risk controls, MVC systems, DevOps, scaling integrations, and service observability/monitoring
• Ability to build a vision for the future application of technology
• Skill in collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to communicate and advocate for high-level software initiatives, keeping technology goals on-point and on-track
• Bonus points for familiarity with Salesforce