Koch Industries

Software Architect

Koch Industries$145K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience with web applications using React and TypeScript
  • Proficient in developing APIs and backend services with Node.js and NestJS
  • Strong background in PostgreSQL database design and optimization
  • Experience with AWS services like EC2, RDS, and Lambda
  • Demonstrated leadership as a technical lead or solution architect on production software.

Responsibilities

  • Define and enhance architecture for a multi-tenant SaaS platform
  • Lead full-stack solution design using modern frameworks
  • Architect secure APIs and integrations for maintainable software
  • Optimize PostgreSQL databases for performance and efficiency
  • Establish cloud architecture standards across AWS services
  • Deliver embedded analytics solutions with AWS QuickSight
  • Drive engineering standards for scalability and security
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals
  • Champion Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD best practices
  • Mentor engineering teams throughout the development process.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan with company contributions
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance and career development support
  • Infertility and adoption assistance, paid parental leave
Full Job Description
Your Job

GCH Tech is seeking a Software Architect to provide technical leadership for our industry-leading Short Code Registry platform. This role is responsible for defining architecture, guiding engineering standards, and delivering scalable software and analytics capabilities across cloud-native applications. The successful candidate will partner with product, business, and engineering stakeholders to modernize platform capabilities, enable data-driven insights, and ensure long-term platform reliability and performance.

What You Will Do

  • Define and evolve application, data, and cloud architecture for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
  • Lead the design and delivery of scalable full-stack solutions using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS.
  • Architect APIs, integrations, and service patterns that support secure, maintainable, and extensible solutions.
  • Design and optimize PostgreSQL data models, indexing strategies, and performance tuning approaches.
  • Establish cloud architecture standards across AWS services, including RDS, Lambda, S3, IAM, Cognito, and QuickSight.
  • Architect and deliver embedded analytics solutions using AWS QuickSight, including dashboard design, row-level security, and data modeling.
  • Drive architecture reviews, technology decisions, and engineering standards related to scalability, resiliency, security, and observability.
  • Partner with product, business, and engineering stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical solutions and roadmaps.
  • Champion Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, and deployment best practices utilizing Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, from solution design through production support.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience designing and developing web applications using React, TypeScript, and modern frontend frameworks.
  • Experience developing APIs and backend services using Node.js, NestJS, Express, or comparable frameworks.
  • Experience designing and supporting PostgreSQL databases, including schema design, indexing, and query optimization.
  • Experience utilizing AWS cloud services, including at least three of the following: EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, IAM, Cognito, or QuickSight.
  • Experience serving as the technical lead, solution architect, or primary design authority for at least one production software application.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience designing or supporting multi-tenant SaaS applications and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience implementing embedded analytics solutions using AWS QuickSight, including dashboard embedding, datasets, and row-level security.
  • Experience developing applications using Next.js, including App Router, server components, middleware, and API routes.
  • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable automation tools.
  • Experience implementing authentication and authorization solutions using OAuth 2.0, JWT, SAML, RBAC, or related security frameworks.
  • Experience supporting platforms within telecommunications, messaging, compliance-driven, or other highly regulated industries.


For this role, we anticipate paying $145,000 - $180,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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