The Role
Responsible for defining system architecture, translating business needs into technical solutions, guiding engineering teams, and evaluating third-party vendors for integrations.
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Company And Culture
Created in 2002 by Marc Eckō, Complex is a leading global youth entertainment network showcasing the evolution of major pop culture categories, including streetwear and style, music, sneakers, and sports. Complex is a juggernaut in the content and culture space, delivering unprecedented global reach.
Complex is the world’s definitive cultural commerce, content, and experiential platform. We have created an all-new operating system built for the next generation, seamlessly integrating discovery, inspiration, community, and shopping. The company represents an expansion of the original vision with a deep understanding of convergence culture and its impact on contemporary society.
Whether through video, long-form editorial, or social content, Complex tells stories that engage dynamic conversation with our communities. Our internet-breaking cover stories document the heroes of culture and take them to the next level through product collaboration and shoppability.
Complex has become experts in creating immersive environments at our IRL experiences and cultural events. ComplexCon is our flagship festival bringing together the world’s most influential brands and artists for an unforgettable weekend of style, sneakers, art, design, food, music, inspiration and more.
Join us to help redefine the way people shop, while building a global marketplace that moves at the speed of culture. Complex is committed to building a high performing team that is passionate about what they do and the communities we serve.
Everyone at Complex truly believes in the company and its mission; it’s a requirement for working here. There is synergy within the teams that make Complex what it is, a well-oiled machine. Employees are at the forefront of the company's success because every one of us is given the opportunity to provide suggestions, feedback, and direction.
Why We're Hiring
We’re hiring a Solutions Architect to bridge product vision with scalable technical solutions across content, commerce, and infrastructure. You'll partner with engineering leads and domain teams to drive architecture standards, integrations, and high-impact project planning.
What You'll Do
- Lead the definition and communication of system architecture across engineering domains
- Translate business requirements into scalable and secure technical solutions
- Work with engineering teams to design APIs, data flows, and services for commerce, media, and personalization
- Identify technical risks and propose mitigation strategies during project planning
- Evaluate third-party vendors and lead implementation strategy for integrations (e.g. eCommerce, CMS, analytics)
- Define standards for infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, deployment, and observability practices
- Partner with DevOps and platform teams to ensure reliability, latency, and uptime targets are met
- Guide engineering teams in breaking down monoliths, decoupling services, and evolving toward modular architecture
Who You Are
- Required: 8+ years of experience in engineering or architecture roles
- Strong system design and integration architecture skills across cloud-native platforms
- Deep experience with Node.js, Go, AWS, and distributed systems
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and reliability practices
- Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders
- Preferred: Experience in eCommerce and media platforms
- Prior work on headless architecture and Shopify integrations
- Familiarity with CDN and edge networks (Fastly, Cloudflare)
- Experience guiding vendor evaluations and technical due diligence
What We Offer
- Best in class health, dental, and vision insurance
- Healthcare FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter Benefits FSA
- Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance
- Paid Parental leave
- 401k with 4% match
- Pet Insurance
- Legal and Identity Theft Plans
- Vacation time and sick days
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.
Complex participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship.
Top Skills
AWS
Cdn
Cloudflare
Fastly
Go
Node.js
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The Company
What We Do
Complex NTWRK champions the people, brands and new trends you need to know now, will obsess over next, and we build consumer universes around them. We're what a modern entertainment company looks like and what others have followed since 2002. From pop culture and style (Complex), music discovery (Pigeons and Planes), sneaker news (Sole Collector) to our festival of cultural convergence (ComplexCon) — if you want to be part of what's next and build valuable relationships with the audiences who live in it, join us at Complex NTWRK.
Complex NTWRK creates and distributes original programming with premium distributors including Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Snap, Fuse, Pluto TV, Roku and more. Our content spans across music to movies, sports to video games, sneakers, fashion to food and more. In 2016, Complex launched its flagship event ComplexCon in Long Beach, California, to bring the "Internet to life."
