Technical Architect
Photon
Technical Architect
Photon
Builds custom software and AI for big companies
Position Overview
Lead the architecture and technical design of enterprise React Native mobile applications, delivering secure, scalable, and high-performance customer experiences integrated with Shopify and enterprise commerce platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Define the end-to-end architecture for React Native mobile applications.
Architect integrations with Shopify, enterprise APIs, and backend platforms.
Define mobile authentication, security, native capabilities, and application integration patterns.
Establish standards for scalability, performance, observability, and application reliability.
Lead architecture reviews, technical governance, and engineering best practices.
Collaborate with Product, UX, Engineering, QA, and enterprise platform teams.
Drive cloud architecture, CI/CD, release management, and production readiness.
Required Qualifications
10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years as a Technical or Solution Architect.
Expertise in React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, and native iOS/Android application architecture.
Experience architecting React Native applications integrated with Shopify Storefront APIs, Customer Account APIs, Checkout Kit/Checkout Sheet Kit, and enterprise commerce services.
Strong expertise in REST APIs, GraphQL, Azure API Management (APIM), microservices, and event-driven integration patterns.
Experience designing secure mobile solutions using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), MFA, Face ID/Touch ID, social sign-on, secure token management, and session management.
Experience integrating push notifications, deep linking, analytics, crash reporting, feature flags, remote configuration, and native device capabilities.
Strong understanding of customer accounts, subscriptions, loyalty, promotions, payments, inventory, BOPIS, and order management.
Experience with Azure Cloud, CI/CD, DevSecOps, App Store/Google Play release management, and mobile performance optimization.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Ordergroove, Kobie, Azure, Firebase, Adobe Analytics, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Sentry, or similar enterprise platforms.
Experience delivering enterprise retail, omnichannel, or digital commerce solutions.
Photon designs, builds, and runs custom software for large companies, combining an in-house creative agency with its own engineering teams. Its flagship client work includes rebuilding Samsung's US online store as a set of smaller linked services and creating Olive Garden's mobile app, which lets diners join the waitlist from their phones instead of waiting at the door. Clients hire Photon's teams to plan and code their apps, websites, and AI tools and to keep them running afterward, paying for the engineers and designers assigned to each project. Photon is privately held and based in London, with its US arm in Dallas and engineering centers in Chennai and Bengaluru.
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