Software Architect, Data Platform

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Hiring Company: ION Water

One-liner: ION transforms the way water costs are controlled through affordable housing’s only smart End-to-End Water Management solution. The Software Architect will own the data architecture and lead a distributed engineering team to ensure data correctness and high-quality code for the ION platform.

Salary: $150K/yr - $170K/yr

Why Join Us:

• End-to-end smart water management platform transforming how multifamily housing controls water costs, with 20,000x more granular data than traditional meters

• Partnered with Meta on a 26M gallon conservation initiative, 100K+ units deployed, trusted by 1/3 of top U.S. affordable housing developers

• Remote-first environment with competitive compensation and benefits.

Role Responsibilities

• Own the data architecture and correctness of the ION platform — relational and time-series modeling, reconciliation, and the integrity of high-volume meter data

• Lead and mentor a distributed engineering team, and raise the quality bar without adding unnecessary process

• Set and document architecture direction across the stack — serverless backend, data products, and the React / Next.js front end

• Build and ship production backend code in TypeScript and Node.js

• Make pragmatic build-versus-buy and storage decisions based on scale, reliability, maintainability, and cost

• Improve testing, observability, code review, and deployment discipline across the team

• Partner with Product, Operations, Sales, and the CTO to turn business requirements into technical plans

Qualifications

Required

• Data-first engineer: deep in relational data modeling and SQL performance tuning at scale on a major relational database (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL)

• Experience ensuring data correctness, including reconciling internal systems against an external source of truth

• Experience with time-series or high-volume operational data — or strong relational depth and the ability to ramp into it

• 5+ years building production backend, data, or cloud systems; 3+ years in a senior technical role (Architect, Staff / Principal Engineer, or hands-on Engineering Lead)

• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring engineers on a distributed team

• Deep AWS serverless experience (Lambda, SQS / SNS, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC) and infrastructure-as-code

• Strong TypeScript / Node.js — or comparable backend depth and the ability to become productive quickly

• Comfortable reasoning about and reviewing a React / Next.js front end

• Strong grasp of idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, ordering, backfills, and incident response

Preferred

• PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB (our current stack)

• MQTT or other device / IoT telemetry experience at scale

• Utility, energy, water, building-operations, or billing domains

• Anomaly detection, signal processing, or time-series analytics

• S3-based analytics — Athena, Glue, Parquet

• Docker, ECS / Fargate, ECR, and CI/CD pipelines

• TypeScript / Node.js

• PostgreSQL / TimescaleDB

• MQTT / IoT telemetry

• React / Next.js familiarity