Job Description

Company Overview

PeopleCheck Ltd provides fast, accurate background-screening solutions for compliance-driven industries. As we scale up our platform, we require a seasoned architect to help us build a rock-solid, maintainable codebase and resilient infrastructure--ensuring excellent user experience, security, and rapid feature delivery.

Summary

You will be the senior architect driving PeopleCheck's system-health, architecture, and scalability initiatives. Reporting to the CEO and collaborating closely with our tech lead, frontend engineer, and product manager, you will:

Assess and evolve our current stack, delivering impactful improvements within your initial months, and Utilize your previous architecture experience to guide design decisions and establish best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Automated Testing & Validation

Design and implement comprehensive CI/CD pipelines ensuring thorough coverage and reliability on critical APIs. Architect a fully automated test suite (unit, integration, end-to-end) and mirror staging/production environments (e.g., Docker)

Modular, Scalable Architecture

Further enhance modularity and maintainability of our backend architecture following single-responsibility principles. Enhance or evolve our existing architecture with microservices best practices.

System Health & Monitoring

Define robust error-handling patterns, integrating structured logging and alerting for swift root-cause analysis. Optimize and maintain infrastructure abstraction and scalability strategies for robust performance during peak loads.

Security & Compliance

Strengthen and maintain industry-leading security standards around credential management and database access. Ensure secure coding and data protection best practices throughout our stack and infrastructure.

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

Establish clear API documentation (requests/responses, typing, examples) Lead architecture/design reviews, write thorough runbooks, and collaborate with the team on SOLID/fp-based desig

Required Skills & Experience

5+ years in backend/system architecture or senior engineering roles Hands-on expertise in designing and operating scalable, high-availability systems Deep understanding of system design patterns: modularity, microservices, SRP (SOLID), functional decomposition Proven track record of delivering automated test suites (unit, integration, end-to-end) and driving 90-100% coverage on critical paths Comfortable with Docker, CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), and environment mirroring Strong experience with Node.js (or equivalent), RESTful APIs, and code structuring Familiarity with cloud platforms (Linode/AWS/GCP) and infrastructure-as-code principles Excellent communicator--able to present past case studies and guide stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

Background in compliance or background-screening services Experience with microservices design and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) Knowledge of advanced observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, ELK)
If you're ready to shape the future of background screening technology with us, apply today and become a key player at PeopleCheck Ltd!

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

Company pension Cycle to work scheme Private medical insurance Referral programme Sick pay Work from home
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Application question(s):

Ability to travel to offices in Richmond-Upon-Thames
Language:

English (required) Portuguese (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Richmond TW9