Platform Architect

Job Overview

As the Architect for the Marketplace Platform, you will set the technical direction for our core products, including Acute care and our next-generation Credentialing systems. Your primary focus will be improving platform modularity and reducing tight coupling within our current architecture. You will provide the leadership needed to ensure consistency and reliability, helping our teams manage complex logic more effectively while identifying \"quick wins\" to reduce technical risk and operational exposure.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for the Marketplace Platform, ensuring architectural consistency across our core products and new versions.


• Improve modularity by identifying and reducing tight coupling within our current systems to make changes safer and more scalable.


• Drive strategy and service design, creating a roadmap that addresses immediate pain points while reducing long-term technical risk.


• Influence and align multiple development teams through clear technical rationale and documentation (RFCs/ADRs) rather than veto power.

Required Qualifications

• A strong background as an Architect or Principal Engineer, with a focus on system design over specific languages. You should have a proven track record of improving modularity and decoupling complex systems.


• Deep experience in a major cloud environment (AWS or Azure), including designing core services and leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC).


• Solid understanding of messaging patterns (e.g., Kafka) and document-based databases. You should be able to explain when to use specific patterns - and when to avoid them.


• The ability to decompose complex problems and secure buy-in from engineering teams and stakeholders through clear technical rationale and documentation.


• A proactive, engineer-led approach to architecture. You are comfortable guiding teams through technical shifts without relying on veto power.

About ShiftKey

ShiftKey is a platform that is disrupting the way healthcare facilities find licensed and certified professionals to fill available shifts. Leveraging marketplace dynamics and deep industry knowledge, the company is playing a vital role in mitigating America’s healthcare staffing shortages, enabling direct connections between facilities and healthcare professionals. By offering the opportunity to work as much or as little as they choose and putting the power back into the hands of healthcare workers, ShiftKey is bringing more licensed professionals back into the workforce, a solution that is solving a major crisis in healthcare.

Benefits

• A high-growth, friendly, and engaging work environment with opportunities for career development.


• Additional vacation days for better work-life balance.


• Modern office in Warsaw’s Powiśle district with Vistula River views, recreational facilities, and great nearby restaurants.


• Thoughtfully designed private medical package to take care of what matters most.


• Sports card to fuel your active lifestyle.


• Life and accident insurance for peace of mind.