Software Architect
sifiapp
IT
Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Posted on Mar 13, 2026
This is a remote position.
About Us
SiFi is a rapidly growing B2B Fin-Tech company transforming expense management for businesses in Saudi Arabia. As a licensed EMI from the Saudi Central Bank, we empower companies with innovative tools to simplify finance management.
Role Overview
As a Software Architect, you will define and evolve the technical architecture of our fin-tech platform, with a focus on backend systems, integrations, and scalability. You will work closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to ensure systems are reliable, secure, and aligned with business and regulatory requirements. This role balances architectural leadership with practical engineering guidance, helping teams make sound technical decisions and evolve the platform over time. Experience in fin-tech, payments, or other transaction-intensive systems is strongly preferred. Familiarity with regulated environments or financial integrations is beneficial.
Primary Responsibilities
· Define and evolve backend and integration architecture for financial workflows such as transactions, reconciliation, and ledger-related services
· Guide system decomposition, service boundaries, and data flow design across platform components
· Ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability of core services
· Provide architectural guidance to engineering teams and review key technical designs
· Establish architectural principles, patterns, and standards across services and integrations
· Support teams in solving complex technical challenges
· Oversee integrations with banks, payment providers, and external financial services
· Promote API-first and event-driven design approaches where appropriate
· Ensure integration reliability and observability
· Collaborate with security and compliance teams to align architecture with relevant standards (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SAMA guidance)
· Embed secure-by-design principles in system architecture
· Maintain architecture documentation (HLDs, ADRs, diagrams)
· Contribute to architectural roadmap and evolution strategy
Requirements
Qualifications
· 8+ years in software engineering, including significant experience in system architecture or technical leadership roles
· Experience designing backend or distributed systems in fin-tech, payments, SaaS, or other transaction-heavy domains
· Strong understanding of microservices and/or modular monolith architectures and integration patterns
· Experience with relational databases and data modeling in high-integrity systems
· Solid experience with .NET or similar enterprise backend stacks
· Experience integrating with external APIs or financial/regulated services is preferred
· Familiarity with security and compliance considerations in regulated systems is beneficial
· Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills
Nice to Have
· Experience in fin-tech or banking ecosystems
· Exposure to KSA or regional financial integrations
· Event-driven or high-throughput systems experience
· Cloud and containerized deployments
About Us
SiFi is a rapidly growing B2B Fin-Tech company transforming expense management for businesses in Saudi Arabia. As a licensed EMI from the Saudi Central Bank, we empower companies with innovative tools to simplify finance management.
Role Overview
As a Software Architect, you will define and evolve the technical architecture of our fin-tech platform, with a focus on backend systems, integrations, and scalability. You will work closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to ensure systems are reliable, secure, and aligned with business and regulatory requirements. This role balances architectural leadership with practical engineering guidance, helping teams make sound technical decisions and evolve the platform over time. Experience in fin-tech, payments, or other transaction-intensive systems is strongly preferred. Familiarity with regulated environments or financial integrations is beneficial.
Primary Responsibilities
· Define and evolve backend and integration architecture for financial workflows such as transactions, reconciliation, and ledger-related services
· Guide system decomposition, service boundaries, and data flow design across platform components
· Ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability of core services
· Provide architectural guidance to engineering teams and review key technical designs
· Establish architectural principles, patterns, and standards across services and integrations
· Support teams in solving complex technical challenges
· Oversee integrations with banks, payment providers, and external financial services
· Promote API-first and event-driven design approaches where appropriate
· Ensure integration reliability and observability
· Collaborate with security and compliance teams to align architecture with relevant standards (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SAMA guidance)
· Embed secure-by-design principles in system architecture
· Maintain architecture documentation (HLDs, ADRs, diagrams)
· Contribute to architectural roadmap and evolution strategy
Requirements
Qualifications
· 8+ years in software engineering, including significant experience in system architecture or technical leadership roles
· Experience designing backend or distributed systems in fin-tech, payments, SaaS, or other transaction-heavy domains
· Strong understanding of microservices and/or modular monolith architectures and integration patterns
· Experience with relational databases and data modeling in high-integrity systems
· Solid experience with .NET or similar enterprise backend stacks
· Experience integrating with external APIs or financial/regulated services is preferred
· Familiarity with security and compliance considerations in regulated systems is beneficial
· Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills
Nice to Have
· Experience in fin-tech or banking ecosystems
· Exposure to KSA or regional financial integrations
· Event-driven or high-throughput systems experience
· Cloud and containerized deployments