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.

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 TW

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 desi

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