Solution Architect & Development Team Lead

We're hiring a Solution Architect who will also act as our development team's lead — someone who proposes real technical solutions and then stays hands-on to help build them. This is not a role for someone who wants to hand off a diagram and walk away. You'll lead a small team (a Senior Software Engineer and a Junior Developer), make the architecture calls, and still be writing and reviewing code yourself. We want someone who thinks in terms of solutions delivered, not hours logged — who's willing to go the extra mile when a project needs it, and who's spent real time at a well-known Pakistani software house doing both hands-on development and solution architecture work. What You'll Do - Propose end-to-end solution architecture for new projects and features across our portfolio — websites, SaaS-style solutions, and backend systems (including data-heavy builds like our Parts Blue vendor-catalog backend) - Stay hands-on as lead developer — writing and reviewing production code in React and Node.js, not just producing architecture diagrams - Lead and mentor a small development team, setting the technical direction and quality bar for their work - Make the call on stack, tooling, and system design trade-offs, and stand behind those decisions - Partner directly with our Technical Project Manager to scope, estimate, and sequence work across multiple concurrent projects - Own code review standards and the overall technical quality/reliability bar for the team's output - Take ownership of problems beyond your immediate ticket when that's what it takes to actually ship What We're Looking For - 7+ years of software development experience (10+ years ideal), including meaningful time in a Solution Architect or technical leadership capacity — not purely an individual-contributor track - That experience should include time at a known, well-regarded Pakistani software house - Continued, active hands-on development — you should still want to be in the code, not just reviewing it from a distance - Strong, demonstrable React and Node.js expertise - Real experience architecting SaaS-style, multi-tenant, or multi-client web solutions - Comfort owning both frontend and backend architecture decisions - Familiarity with modern tooling — Sanity, Vercel, Supabase, Cursor, GitHub (openness to newer AI-assisted tools like Lovable is a plus) - A track record of leading or mentoring developers - An outcomes-first mindset — you measure success by what got delivered, not hours logged - Strong communication skills, including with non-technical stakeholders If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Benefits - Remote working opportunity - Opportunity to work across multiple products and projects - Exposure to modern technologies and AI-assisted development tools - Opportunity to work closely with technical and project leadership.