About Horizontal: Established since 2003 in the US, Horizontal solves complex challenges across two distinct businesses: Horizontal Digital and Horizontal Talent. We are consistently recognized for being a top workplace and one of the fastest growing private companies. Horizontal Talent specializes in staffing for IT, Digital & Creative and Business & Strategy markets. We have global offices in US, UAE, India, Malaysia and Australia.
Job Responsibilities
- Understand business models and product workflows, and translate complex requirements into executable system solutions.
- Lead business process analysis, domain modeling, system architecture, API collaboration, and data flow design.
- Act as technical owner for key projects and coordinate with Product, Operations, Development, QA, DevOps, and Data teams.
- Drive platformization, middle-platform architecture, and componentization to improve system reusability and delivery efficiency.
- Review major requirements and identify risks in business logic, technology, data, performance, security, and production release.
- Provide technical suggestions to improve system capabilities and business efficiency.
- Prepare and maintain architecture documents, business flow diagrams, system interaction diagrams, and data flow diagrams.
- Guide developers in understanding business requirements and system design to improve complex project delivery.
Main Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Architect, Solutions Architect, Technical Architect, or Staff/Principal Engineer roles, with a strong background in distributed systems
- Experience leading cross-functional projects and coordinating with Product, Operations, Development, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders.
- Familiar with microservices architecture, API design, data consistency, permission/access control, Flink, message middleware, MongoDB, and related technologies.
- Experience in payment, wallet, risk control, campaign, user growth, trading, gaming, e-commerce, financial systems, or data platforms is preferred.
- Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to explain solutions and risks clearly.
- Strong ownership mindset, able to identify business/system issues and drive continuous improvement.
- Able to balance fast business delivery with long-term system scalability and maintainability.
- Enthusiastic about AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, ChatGPT, or similar tools to improve development, debugging, documentation, and technical research.
