Technology Lead / Architect

The company and our mission: 

Zartis is a global AI transformation and technology consulting partner where talented engineers and technologists work on cutting edge innovation. We partner with ambitious organizations to design, build, and scale technology solutions that deliver real impact.

Our teams bring deep expertise in AI driven platforms, secure API architectures, and cloud native engineering. You will work on meaningful projects that accelerate the adoption of advanced technologies, from strategy and discovery through to full product delivery, helping turn complex challenges into measurable outcomes.

With engineering hubs across EMEA and LATAM, and long term partnerships in financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and energy and climate, we offer opportunities to work on projects that truly matter. Here, you will not just build technology, you will drive business impact and grow your career alongside industry leaders.

We are looking for a Technology Lead / Architect to work on a project in the online marketplaces industry. 

The project:

Our teammates are talented people that come from a variety of backgrounds. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture based on trust and innovation.

You will be part of a distributed team developing new technologies to solve real business problems, they are building a new team that runs classifieds platforms across several markets (AI-driven platforms). The team will build new experimental products that use AI, working closely with the client's existing engineering ecosystem. 

We are looking for someone with good communication skills, ideally with experience making decisions, being proactive, used to building software from scratch, and with good attention to detail. 

What you will do:

• Own the technical direction and architecture of the squad's products, from early experiments through to production.

• Stay hands-on: write code, review pull requests and build core components alongside the team.

• Design services that run on GCP serverless infrastructure (Cloud Run) and make good use of GCP managed services.

• Integrate new products with the client's existing landscape, which is mostly microservices plus a remaining monolith.

• Guide and support engineers of mixed seniority, setting technical standards and good engineering practices.

• Work closely with the Product Manager and UX Designer to turn ideas into technically sound, testable products.

• Help the team build AI-powered features responsibly, balancing speed of experimentation with reliability and security.

What you will bring:

• 7  years of backend engineering experience, with deep, hands-on expertise in Java.

• Strong experience with Spring and/or Dropwizard frameworks.

• Proven experience designing and running microservices architectures, and comfort working alongside legacy/monolithic systems.

• Experience with MySQL and MongoDB.

• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, ideally Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Firestore and Cloud Armor (strong experience on another major cloud may be considered).

• Significant experience building AI-powered products, and genuine enthusiasm for working at the AI frontier.

• Previous experience as a Tech Lead or Architect while remaining hands-on.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with the frontend stack: React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL and the BFF pattern.

• Exposure to Flutter/Dart mobile development.

• Experience setting up a new team or product from scratch.

What we offer:

• 100% Remote Work

• WFH allowance: Monthly payment as financial support for remote working.

• Career Growth: We have established a career development program accessible for all employees with a 360º feedback that will help us to guide you in your career progression.

• Training: For Tech training at Zartis, you have time allocated during the week at your disposal. You can request from a variety of options, such as online courses (from Pluralsight and Educative.io, for example), English classes, books, conferences, and events.

• Mentoring Program: You can become a mentor in Zartis or you can receive mentorship, or both.

• Zartis Wellbeing Hub (Kara Connect): A platform that provides sessions with a range of specialists, including mental health professionals, nutritionists, physiotherapists, fitness coaches, and webinars with such professionals as well.

• Multicultural working environment: We organize tech events, webinars, parties, and activities to do online team-building games and contests.