Job Description
About Innovapptive
Innovapptive is an enterprise SaaS company building an AI-powered Connected Worker Platform for industrial organizations. Our platform connects frontline workers, back-office systems, and assets in real-time to drive safety, reliability, and operational productivity.
Leading global enterprises including Shell, Hess, Westlake Chemical, Kimberly-Clark, Scott Miracle-Gro, and Newmont Mining, rely on Innovapptive to transform how work gets done across plants and field operations.
Our customers have achieved $50M+ EBITDA savings at a single enterprise, 10× improvement in frontline productivity, and 15–20% reductions in maintenance costs.
Innovapptive is recognized as a Leader in Frost & Sullivan's “Frost Radar 2025 - Augmented Connected Worker Platforms”, with acknowledgments from Gartner and LNS Research, and is backed by Vista Equity Partners and Tiger Global Management.
With headquarters in Houston and an engineering center in Hyderabad, we have 300+ employees across the U.S., India, and ANZ and are on a strong trajectory toward $100M ARR.
Why This Role Exists
Innovapptive is consolidating from 8+ codebases into a unified platform. Architects are the design authority you define how systems are built, set patterns that scale, and prevent the technical debt that slows teams down. This is a hands-on IC role, not a PowerPoint role.
What You Own
- Design authority: high-risk changes (>1,000 lines, cross-module, API contracts, schema) require your review.
- Architecture decisions: tech selection, API design, data modeling, integration patterns. Write and defend ADRs.
- Code quality governance: named CODEOWNER. Minimum 5 MR reviews/sprint. You set the bar.
- Technical debt inventory: quantified in hours, prioritized with EMs, reported in quality scorecard.
- Cross-team alignment: ensure platform patterns adopted consistently across product scrums.
- Mentorship: grow senior ICs into architects. Pair on complex problems. Run design reviews.
You Must Have
- 8+ years software engineering with 3+ years in architecture or principal engineer role.
- Deep Node.js / MEAN / MERN for Full Stack. Deep SAP (S/4HANA, BTP, IDocs, BAPIs, OData) for Integration. Maximo (REST APIs, automation scripts) for Maximo.
- Track record defining and enforcing architecture standards across multiple scrum teams.
- Enterprise SaaS: multi-tenancy, environment management, release governance, SOC2/compliance.
- Strong opinions, loosely held.
Nice to Have
- MongoDB and event-driven architectures (change streams, RabbitMQ).
- Mobile architecture (React Native at scale).
- AI/ML system design.
- Industrial SaaS (energy, manufacturing, utilities).
You Will Be Measured On
- Top 2 tech debt items closed per quarter.
- ≥5 MR reviews/sprint. Named CODEOWNER.
- Zero escaped Sev-1/Sev-2 in code paths you reviewed.
- Pattern adoption: ≥3 product teams consuming shared patterns.
- ADRs, API contracts, data models published and current.
- At least 1 senior IC progressing toward architect-level per half.
Tech Stack & Tools
Backend: Node.js / TypeScript, MongoDB, RabbitMQ
Integration: SAP S/4HANA, BTP, IDocs, BAPIs, OData, Maximo REST APIs
Frontend: React.js, React Native
Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD
Tools: GitLab, SonarQube, Jira
Compensation & Growth
Band C3. Integration and Maximo at higher end due to domain scarcity. Reports to VP PE&A or CTO. Path to Principal Architect or VP PE&A technical track.
What We Offer- Competitive compensation and equity tied to measurable impact on AI accuracy and performance.
- A platform to shape the semantic intelligence layer of a category-defining industrial SaaS company.
- Access to cutting-edge AI, data, and observability toolchains for continuous learning and innovation.
Innovapptive does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms.
Innovapptive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Innovapptive, our mission is to help improve the working life of front line worker. We are the only Connected Worker Platform that combines ERP (SAP, IBM Maximo) operational data with digital, visual, & step by step guided work instructions on mobile and smart glasses to empower front-line workers to get jobs done faster, better, cheaper & safer. By engineering a platform that fuels innovation & collaboration, we are transforming the experience of the industrial worker to bridge the skills gap and further helping our customers increase revenues & margins. Together, with our employees, customers and partners across the globe, we are growing economies of some of the world's largest brands. We recently closed our Series A Fund Raise of $16.3M with Tiger Global Management, a Global Marquee Fund with over $30 Billion of Assets Under Management (AUM). Tiger Global Management has a reputation of investing and building some of world's "Unicorn" brands such as Spotify, Netflix, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Peloton, Harry's, Ola, Flipkart, Freshworks and many more! Come join an Incredible company that is on a mission to improve working life of front line workers by enriching the experience of every single field worker, back office and executives to help grow our customer's revenues and profitability!
