Lead Software Architect

Lead Software Architect

Pulley's mission is to make it easier for anyone to start a company. We believe that more startups should exist and that founder-led companies are more successful in the long term. With Pulley's cap table management tools, companies can better understand and optimize their equity for the long term. Starting a company is hard enough. Managing equity shouldn't be.

As AI reshapes how companies operate, we're exploring what equity management looks like in an AI-native world. We believe there's an opportunity to redefine how early-stage leaders build and manage their companies. It's a brand-new, unsolved challengeand we're building a solution that leverages our strengths to meet it.

Our trajectory is fueled by top investors like Founders' Fund, Stripe, General Catalyst, Caffeinated Capital, 8vc, Elad Gil, among other great angels. Pulley is growing quickly with over 4,000 customers including startups like Linear, Runway, Fathom, and Roam, and we're growing the team to meet the demand.

About the Role

We're looking for an exceptional Lead Software Architect to drive technical excellence across our architecture areas (Golang, Python, Typescript, DevOps, Data & Persistence, and Orchestration). This role is perfect for a seasoned engineering leader who has done a little bit of everything. You bring deep and broad technical mastery coupled with strategic vision, and love solving complex problems. You'll spearhead organization-wide initiatives, shape architectural decisions across multiple domains, and elevate engineering standards around performance, security, and scalability.

This role offers the rare opportunity to fundamentally shape how we build software at Pulley and establish the engineering practices that will power our continued growth.

What You'll Do

• Define and champion technical quality standards across the engineering organization
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to ensure the technical roadmap supports broader company objectives, and balances feature delivery speed with long-term codebase health
• Provide mentorship and technical direction to the designated architects for each architecture area (Golang, Python, Typescript, DevOps, Data & Persistence, and Orchestration)
• Create comprehensive standards for building robust, scalable systems including monitoring, automated testing, deployment pipelines, and development best practices
• Diagnose systemic issues that lead to technical debt and implement organizational solutions to prevent future problems
• Build systems to measure, track, and systematically address existing technical challenges
• Review technical documents and proposals

What You Bring

Why Work At Pulley?

Benefits

Annual Salary Range : $237,000-$275,000 USD

The range above reflects the typical salary range for this role. The final offer will depend on factors such as your experience, interview performance, level, and other considerations assessed during the hiring process.