Senior Software Architect at FinQuery
Atlanta, GA
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Jul 15, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor architect role responsible for setting and driving the technical vision for one or more product lines, making architectural decisions around service boundaries, tenancy, performance, and scalability, and contributing directly to code. The position involves mentoring engineers, leading post-acquisition integrations, and championing AI-assisted development practices across the engineering organization. Suits an experienced engineer with a strong background in .NET, AWS, and cloud-native enterprise systems who has no formal people-management responsibilities.
Staff level · 10+ years · Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Staff.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 120 people in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 65–160
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $135,884 (middle half $106,941–$167,811).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title says 'Senior' but the role's actual scope — owning technical vision for a product line, setting architectural direction across teams, driving org-wide AI adoption, and leading post-acquisition integration — is consistent with a Staff-level individual contributor, not a typical Senior engineer. Seniority is set to Staff accordingly.
The degree requirement is listed as 'preferred' and the JD explicitly accepts equivalent experience, so no minimum degree is hard-gated.
AWS, C#, containerized workloads, ORMs, and GitHub Actions appear together in a 'Recent work with…' clause under the experience section; treated as hard gates given their placement in the requirements block.
PostgreSQL and React are explicitly called out as 'a plus' and are marked preferred.
Redis, DynamoDB, and Elasticsearch appear under 'Exposure to NoSql-type databases like…' — framed as exposure/familiarity rather than a hard gate; marked preferred with alternatives capturing the named options.
Claude Code / Codex (or comparable agentic AI tools) appears in both a firm-language context ('Proficiency in') and a 'track record' context in the requirements block; marked as required. The broader LLM/AI-assisted development capability is also a hard gate given the role's explicit mandate to lead AI adoption across the engineering org.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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