Senior Software Architect

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p class="p1"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Rumble </strong>is <em>the</em> Freedom-First technology platform. We proudly offer a video platform, cloud services, advertising solutions, and a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet.</span></p></div><p><span data-contrast="none">Rumble Cloud is building a self-service cloud platform that gives customers and internal teams powerful, reliable infrastructure with a straightforward, intuitive experience. As a Senior Software Architect, you’ll define and evolve the architecture for our Self-Service Cloud Portal, Cloud Console, and the broader set of services that support them - including APIs, billing and account management, provisioning and automation, and new product surfaces as they emerge.</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">This role blends architectural leadership with sustained, hands-on coding. You’ll set technical direction across services while personally contributing large volumes of clean, production-quality Python, and you’ll help connect backend Python services, Go microservices, and React/TypeScript frontends into a coherent, well-structured system. It’s not a management role, but you will influence priorities, mentor engineers, and keep the team aligned on patterns, standards, and trade-offs.</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">You’ll work closely with product, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure, and application engineering teams to turn requirements into architectures, epics, and delivery plans. If you enjoy designing distributed systems, care deeply about API and data model quality, and want to stay deeply involved in the code while steering the platform’s direction, this role is designed for you.</span></p> <h2 id="responsibilities" class="font-editorial font-bold mb-2 mt-4 [.has-inline-images_&]:clear-end text-base first:mt-0">Responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Define and document the architecture, standards, and technical roadmap across the Self-Service Cloud Portal, Cloud Console, and other current and future services.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Contribute a large, sustained volume of production Python code for core backend components, focusing on clarity, reliability, and maintainability.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Design and implement RESTful APIs and backend services, including authentication and authorization flows (OAuth2 / OpenID Connect) and multi-tenant patterns.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Integrate backend Python services with Go microservices and React/TypeScript frontends, ensuring consistent contracts, error handling, and performance across layers.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Shape data and persistence layers, including relational schemas, ORM models (e.g., SQLAlchemy), and patterns for usage metering, billing, account management, and provisioning.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Synthesize product requirements into epics, tickets, and delivery plans, and help establish SDLC and CI/CD practices that keep releases predictable and safe.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Collaborate with the DevSecOps Engineer on SSDLC and secure design decisions, ensuring security is integrated into architecture and planning while DevSecOps owns and operates the SSDLC pipeline.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code reviews, and communicate architectural trade-offs and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Work closely with cloud and platform teams to align application architecture with OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes capabilities and constraints.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Continuously refine patterns, libraries, and conventions to reduce complexity, improve reliability, and make the codebase easier for the team to work with over time.</span></li> </ul> <h2 id="qualifications" class="font-editorial font-bold mb-2 mt-4 [.has-inline-images_&]:clear-end text-base first:mt-0">Qualifications</h2> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Expert-level Python for API and backend development, including experience with frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask, and libraries like SQLAlchemy and Jinja2.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Strong experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, including authentication and authorization with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Experience architecting distributed systems or service-oriented architectures at production scale, with attention to reliability, observability, and evolvability.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Solid relational database skills (PostgreSQL, MySQL) including schema design, query optimization basics, and ORM modeling.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span…