Ten Mile Square Technologies is a high-end technology consulting firm based in the Northern Virginia area. Our customers routinely call upon us to solve some of the largest scale and hardest problems in computer science and software development. If you have a solid grounding in software engineering, continuous delivery, and computer science, and are looking for a career opportunity to grow and leverage those skills to the fullest while working on cutting edge technologies – Ten Mile Square is the place to be!
Job DescriptionCompensation: USD 165,000 - 190,000 yearly
Job Description
Ten Mile Square is looking for a talented and experienced Solution Architect to design and build systems for multiple remote-first teams of full-stack software engineers working in a complex enterprise environment. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can drive technical direction, maintain a high delivery bar, and operate effectively across architecture, product, and engineering stakeholders.
The initial assignment is to help lead the development and modernization of enterprise financial services platforms, including backend systems, federated GraphQL services, workflow-driven application components, and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS. The right candidate will combine strong software engineering depth with delivery accountability, sound technical judgment, and the ability to move work forward in messy, real-world environments.
Salary (Base + Target Bonus): $190K ($165K + $25K).
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with multiple teams of software engineers, SDETs, and DevOps-oriented engineers to design and build complex software systems. Expected work breakdown is 70% system design, 30% hands-on development.
- Drive design decisions and understand trade-offs of various technology choices
- Perform hands-on application programming with an emphasis on backend and integration systems development using GraphQL, Apollo, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, RESTful APIs, and data pipelines
- Architect, design, and build distributed systems and integrations using a suite of AWS components including but not limited to EKS, Lambda, S3, MSK, and Aurora
- Design and implement GraphQL subgraphs and contribute to federated graph architecture and schema governance
- Define and maintain architectural standards, ensuring systems remain scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise constraints
- Set a high technical and delivery bar by modeling engineering best practices and enforcing expectations around quality, reliability, testing, observability, and operational support
- Guide teams in making sound technical decisions and tradeoffs, ensuring solutions are aligned with long-term strategy while still delivering near-term value
- Champion engineering operational excellence, including observability, automation, reliability, performance improvements, and production support
- Promote a DevOps and cloud-first mindset, ensuring teams fully leverage modern engineering practices and cloud-native capabilities
- Work with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into epics, stories, technical plans, and delivery workstreams
- Mentor developers on the team
- Ensure technical documentation is clear, accurate, and accessible to the technology team
- Contribute as a member of an Agile team and promote Agile practices
- Proactively collaborate with the Ten Mile Square team on development and knowledge sharing
- Represent yourself and Ten Mile Square with integrity, expertise, and value
- Maintain the confidentiality of our clients on an ongoing basis
- 2+ years of experience as a solution architect
- 3+ years of experience as a senior software engineer
- 7+ years of software development experience including 3+ years of TypeScript and Node.js
- 2+ years of experience working with GraphQL
- Strong experience developing, deploying, and supporting systems in AWS
- Strong SQL skills
- Full application stack development experience from front-end to persistence
- Full software lifecycle participation from requirements to post-implementation support
- Linux command line proficiency
- Strong understanding of software engineering practices, testing strategy, and operational support in production environments
- Strong communication skills and the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE DESERVE EXCEPTIONAL BENEFITS
- 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (including family)
- 100% company paid individual short- and long-term disability
- 100% company paid vision insurance
- 3% company contribution to 401(k)
- 15 days paid time off per year + 1 day/year up to 20 days
- 10 training days per year
- 8 company holidays + 2 personal days
- Individual performance-based quarterly cash incentive
- Combined individual and company based annual cash incentive
- Public transit reimbursement
Additional Details:
- Job Type: Full-time, not C2C/1099
- Job Location: Remote, US based only
- East Coast working hours
- Occasional travel may be required depending on team or assignment
- Visa Sponsorship: None available at this time
Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience as a solution architect
- 3+ years of experience as a senior software engineer
- 7+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years of TypeScript and Node.js experience
- 2+ years of experience working with GraphQL
- Strong experience in AWS deployment
- Strong SQL skills
What We Do
When the answer isn’t obvious, it’s time to call in Ten Mile Square. Our clients present us with some of the most difficult technology, product, and strategy related challenges imaginable. We provide the leadership, experience, processes, technical know-how, and focus on business value necessary to deliver products and technology that succeed in the marketplace for the long-term. Our services span the entire business-to-technology lifecycle and include Business and Technology Strategy, Virtual CTO, Product Management, Continuous Delivery, Modernization, Software Development, and Software and Hardware Development. Our team is a mixture of successful CEOs, CTOs, Heads of Product, senior and mid-level technologists, product managers, and strategists, who bring know-how, efficiency, and knowledge transfer to every engagement. Our Approach is to embrace your desired business outcomes and then work together with your team to identify and quantify the challenges and gaps that impact your ability to deliver. We then work aggressively with your team to address those gaps. What we love most is putting in place the people, processes, products, and platforms that enable your company to exceed the expectations of your customers and stakeholders. Our Definition of Success is simple: We aim to make your team stronger and self sufficient, your technology a driver for business value and competitive advantage, and your processes sustainable and adaptive. Our number one measure of success is that we’ve worked ourselves out of a job and that your team is delivering products and platforms that matter.
