
Remote - Solutions Architect at World Business Lenders, LLC. About World Business Lenders. (. www.wbl.com. ). World Business Lenders (WBL) provides general purpose short-term real estate collateralized commercial loans to a broad customer base comprised of small and medium sized businesses throughout the United States that lack access to traditional funding. . WBL is a U.S.-based company with a 100% remote workforce. . Generally, working hours will be 9:00am-6:00pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday, although hours worked may be greater based upon operational requirements. . The job requires excellent oral and written command of the English language. . You must be comfortable working with productivity monitoring systems. Resumes must be submitted in English. . Responsibilities:. • Architecture & Road-mapping. • Define the target architecture for Angular front-ends, Python back-ends (FastAPI/Django), and SQL Server/Azure SQL data layers.. • Create integration blueprints (REST/gRPC, webhooks, message queues) for inbound/outbound data flows with third-party systems (CRM, marketing, doc-gen, KYC, etc.).. • Maintain an ADR (Architecture Decision Record) log and “golden paths” for the team.. • Solution Design & Delivery. • Translate business processes into modular web application services (domain boundaries, API contracts, data models, error contracts).. • Lead design reviews; de-risk with spikes and proof-of-concepts; break initiatives into epics/stories with clear Definition of Done.. • Pair with engineers on complex features; unblock deep issues in performance, concurrency, and data integrity.. • Data & Integrations. • Model relational schemas (normalized tables, SCDs where applicable), define indexes/partitions, and author T-SQL (procs, views, functions).. • Establish integration patterns (idempotency, retries, backoff, DLQs) and data quality SLAs.. • Security & Compliance. • Own authN/authZ (JWT/OAuth2), secrets management, PII handling, and audit logging.. • Drive secure coding standards, dependency governance, and vendor risk assessments.. • Reliability & Operations. • Define SLOs/SLIs, observability (structured logs, metrics, traces), and incident playbooks.. • Choose CI/CD strategy (pipelines, environments, canary/blue-green) and infra (Azure/AWS, containers/serverless as appropriate).. • Mentor senior engineers; run design clinics and post-mortems.. • Collaborate with business stakeholders to map processes and prioritize automations.. . 8+ years in software engineering, 3+ as architect/tech lead.. . Production systems with Angular, Python (FastAPI or Django), and SQL Server (including performance tuning & T-SQL).. . Building integrations at scale (API gateways, OAuth, webhooks, queues like SQS/Rabbit/Kafka).. . CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab/Azure DevOps), containerization, cloud (Azure/AWS).. . Excellent English communication across execs and engineers.. . Nice to Have. . Event-driven architectures, DDD, CQRS; feature flags; Terraform.. . Experience in fintech or data-sensitive domains.. . Company Location: Panama.