Remote - Solutions Architect

About World Business Lenders (www.wbl.com)

World Business Lenders (WBL) provides general purpose short-term real estate collateralized commercial loans to a broad customer base comprised of small and medium sized businesses throughout the United States that lack access to traditional funding.

WBL is a U.S.-based company with a 100% remote workforce.

Generally, working hours will be 9:00am-6:00pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday, although hours worked may be greater based upon operational requirements.

• The job requires excellent oral and written command of the English language.
• You must be comfortable working with productivity monitoring systems
• Resumes must be submitted in English.

Responsibilities:

• Architecture & Road-mapping
• Define the target architecture for Angular front-ends, Python back-ends (FastAPI/Django), and SQL Server/Azure SQL data layers.
• Create integration blueprints (REST/gRPC, webhooks, message queues) for inbound/outbound data flows with third-party systems (CRM, marketing, doc-gen, KYC, etc.).
• Maintain an ADR (Architecture Decision Record) log and “golden paths” for the team.
• Solution Design & Delivery
• Translate business processes into modular web application services (domain boundaries, API contracts, data models, error contracts).
• Lead design reviews; de-risk with spikes and proof-of-concepts; break initiatives into epics/stories with clear Definition of Done.
• Pair with engineers on complex features; unblock deep issues in performance, concurrency, and data integrity.
• Data & Integrations
• Model relational schemas (normalized tables, SCDs where applicable), define indexes/partitions, and author T-SQL (procs, views, functions).
• Establish integration patterns (idempotency, retries, backoff, DLQs) and data quality SLAs.
• Security & Compliance
• Own authN/authZ (JWT/OAuth2), secrets management, PII handling, and audit logging.
• Drive secure coding standards, dependency governance, and vendor risk assessments.
• Reliability & Operations
• Define SLOs/SLIs, observability (structured logs, metrics, traces), and incident playbooks.
• Choose CI/CD strategy (pipelines, environments, canary/blue-green) and infra (Azure/AWS, containers/serverless as appropriate).
• Mentor senior engineers; run design clinics and post-mortems.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to map processes and prioritize automations.

Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering, 3+ as architect/tech lead.
• Production systems with Angular, Python (FastAPI or Django), and SQL Server (including performance tuning & T-SQL).
• Building integrations at scale (API gateways, OAuth, webhooks, queues like SQS/Rabbit/Kafka).
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab/Azure DevOps), containerization, cloud (Azure/AWS).
• Excellent English communication across execs and engineers.

Nice To Have

• Event-driven architectures, DDD, CQRS; feature flags; Terraform.
• Experience in fintech or data-sensitive domains.

Benefits

• CONTRACT/CONSULTANCY POSITION
• PTO Available
• USD salary ($4000 - $4500)
• 100% Work from home