Platform Architect

Location: İzmir, İzmir, Turkey

Department: RSO

Workplace: on_site

Description

Rapsodo is a sports technology company that designs computer vision and machine learning products to help athletes maximize their performance. With offices strategically located in Singapore, Turkey, the USA, Japan, and the UK. Rapsodo is the undisputed leader in sports technology. Current partners include all 30 MLB teams, MLB, USA Baseball, Golf Digest, PGA of America, and over 1000 NCAA athletic departments.

Opened in 2018, our Turkey office operates as the R&D arm of Rapsodo. We have offices located in Bayraklı & Technopark in the Izmir Ege University, recognized by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology as one of Turkey’s most successful Technoparks. Our offices incorporate UI/UX, Mobile, Cloud Technologies along with Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Data Science and Unity teams. Rapsodo is rapidly growing, and we are looking for team players who will contribute to deliver state-of-the-art solutions with us. We're looking for a Software Architect to join us!

Role Overview:
As an architect, your primary mission is to architect current backend, frontend and mobile landscape from multiple overlapping producs into a more unified, modular platform.

You will define which capabilities should become shared platform services and which should remain product-specific.

Key Responsibilities

• Define a long-term platform architecture and modernization roadmap.
• Identify duplicated domains across backends and convert them into shared services.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering and design tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, or similar) to accelerate system design, code generation, refactoring, and documentation workflows.
• Decide which domains should remain product-specific, such as sport sessions, shot data, reports, leaderboards, simulations, games, and tournaments.
• Define service boundaries, API contracts, ownership models, and migration patterns.
• Establish architecture standards.
• Guide migration using safe patterns such as strangler fig, dual-write, feature flags, and backward-compatible APIs.
• Mentor engineers and review major technical designs.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and tools to support the development process.
• Work closely with DevOps to improve CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and service operations.
• Create technical documentation, architecture decision records, and service ownership maps.
• Allocate a significant portion of working time to hands-on design review, code review, and active coding, serving as the technical quality gatekeeper across development teams.
• Contribute directly to codebases — writing, refactoring, and optimizing code — ensuring architectural decisions are validated through hands-on implementation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 7+ years of proven experience as a Software Architect or a similar role in software development.Strong experience architecting and modernizing complex backend systems.
• Proven experience decomposing monoliths or fragmented services into modular platforms.
• Deep knowledge of microservices, modular monoliths, service-oriented architecture, and domain-driven design.
• Strong backend development experience with Go (Golang) and/or Node.js.
• Proven experience object-oriented programming languages (e.g., C#, Java, Kotlin),
• Proven experience with FrontEnd frameworks ( React, Vue )
• Strong database design experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or comparable systems.
• Experience with Cloud Platforms ( GCP, AWS )
• Experience designing APIs, service contracts, authentication flows, and integration patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture, Docker, queues, object storage, and distributed systems.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) in engineering workflows.
• Ability to balance ideal architecture with incremental delivery and business risk.
• Excellent communication skills with engineering, product, DevOps, QA, and leadership teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kafka.
• Experience creating shared platform services for multiple products.
• Experience in sports technology, hardware-connected platforms, IoT, device management, or data-heavy systems.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity providers, OAuth/OIDC, JWT, and SSO.
• Experience with migration strategies for production systems with active users.
• Experience defining engineering standards across multiple backend teams.
• Experience with payment systems, device platforms, notifications, or subscription systems is a strong plus.