Staff Software Architect

Location: Sioux Falls, SD / Remote

About SONIFI

SONIFI Solutions is a leading provider of technology solutions for the hospitality industry, delivering guest engagement, connectivity, and entertainment platforms to hotels across North America. Our technology powers the digital guest experience through WiFi, interactive TV, and integrated services that drive value for hotel partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and own overall solution architecture across platforms and products
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud native systems in AWS
• Lead architecture for microservices and event driven systems
• Drive API first design standards including governance, versioning, and authentication
• Partner with product and engineering teams to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Lead legacy modernization efforts and platform consolidation strategies
• Architect and integrate AI and GenAI capabilities into products and developer workflows
• Establish patterns for integrating services such as OpenAI and AWS Bedrock
• Ensure strong system performance, reliability, observability, and security
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce best practices and compliance standards
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineering teams
• Conduct architecture reviews, design walkthroughs, and technical evaluations
• Define and promote best practices across development and architecture

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
• 10 or more years of experience in software engineering with deep architectural expertise
• Strong experience with AWS and cloud native architecture
• Microservices and event driven systems
• API design and integrations including REST and GraphQL
• Linux based systems and environments
• Containerization technologies such as Docker or Podman
• Modern CI/CD practices

Skills

• Scalability, reliability, observability, and performance design
• Network fundamentals including latency and protocols
• Data modeling and system integration
• Security concepts including OAuth2, OIDC, API gateways, and service mesh
• Multi-tenant cloud architecture
• Programming experience in one or more of the following: Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, Go, C++
• AI, ML, or GenAI platforms and services (a plus)
• Developer productivity tooling and automation (a plus)
• Domain driven design and architecture modeling approaches such as C4 (a plus)
• Legacy system modernization and platform consolidation (a plus)
• Hospitality or lodging technology experience (a plus)

Benefits

• PTO and holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Pet insurance
• On demand pay
• Additional benefits

Pay

Compensation range generally starting at $120,000 to $180,000. Final salary will be based on factors including location, experience, education, specialty, and training.