Software Architect - Data Platform

Software Architect – Data Platform

Location: Israel (IL)
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Employment Type: Permanent

Job Summary

HiBob is seeking a Software Architect to establish and guide the technical direction of its Data Platform group. This senior individual-contributor role will provide architectural leadership across Data Infrastructure, Data Engine, and Data Framework teams.

The position focuses on data-intensive distributed applications, platform architecture, APIs, data-access frameworks, streaming, storage, reliability, scalability, and security. The architect will work closely with the Data Platform Group Director, Team Leads, and engineers to guide technical decisions, modernize existing systems, and establish infrastructure supporting analytics and AI capabilities.

Candidates should have extensive experience as a Software Architect, Principal Engineer, or Staff Engineer, with deep expertise in distributed systems and complex production environments.

Job Description

About Us

HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we’ve achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over approximately 5,500 midsize and multinational companies and over 1.5 million users.

Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively.

About the Role

HiBob is building a scalable data platform that powers our product, analytics, and AI capabilities. We’re looking for an Architect to shape the technical direction of the Data Platform group - helping teams make high-quality architectural decisions faster and turning complex, cross-cutting challenges into clear, pragmatic paths forward.

Reporting to the Data Platform Group Director and working alongside Team Leads, you’ll be the group’s senior individual-contributor architect. You will guide architecture across our Data Infrastructure, Data Engine, and Data Framework teams, with particular emphasis on data-intensive application architecture.

You’ll stay close to technical design, delivery, and production - not only to define direction, but to ensure it works in practice.

Job Responsibilities

• Set and evolve the architectural direction for the Data Platform group, balancing long-term platform strategy with pragmatic, executable decisions.

• Lead cross-team design reviews and drive alignment on significant technical decisions, including the trade-offs behind them.

• Create clear design documents, reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns that enable teams to make high-quality decisions independently.

• Partner with engineers and Team Leads through critical stages of delivery to preserve architectural intent, resolve emerging trade-offs, and ensure designs work in production.

• Guide the evolution of data-intensive applications and platform capabilities across data access, query and application frameworks, streaming, storage, reliability, scalability, and security.

• Drive incremental modernization of existing systems - including migrations, simplification, and architectural improvements - without compromising customer reliability or delivery momentum.

• Build foundations that enable product teams to access and operate on data safely and efficiently, including permission-aware access to sensitive HR data.

• Ensure the platform is ready for trusted analytics and AI use cases through robust data contracts, governance, observability, lineage, and secure access patterns.

• Identify systemic technical risks, architectural gaps, and recurring friction - and turn them into durable capabilities rather than one-off solutions.

• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for technical thinking, system design, and execution across the group.

Job Requirements

What You Bring

• Extensive experience as a Software Architect, Principal Engineer, or Staff Engineer in data-intensive, distributed applications.

• A proven ability to independently make sound technical decisions and solve complex, ambiguous problems across multiple teams and systems.

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, including the trade-offs among consistency, reliability, performance, scalability, and operability.

• Hands-on experience designing and evolving application-facing data platforms, APIs, frameworks, or query and data-access layers.

• Strong knowledge of technologies such as PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Cloud Infrastructure, and complex data systems.

• Experience evolving complex production systems through migration, decomposition, or modernization - not only designing greenfield systems.

• A practical architecture mindset: able to balance long-term direction with delivery needs and make trade-offs explicit.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly for architecture reviews, technical decision records, and cross-team alignment.

• Experience with sensitive data, security, privacy, permissions, or multi-tenant systems is a strong advantage.

• Experience enabling analytics, semantic data access, or AI-ready data platforms is a strong advantage.

Job Benefits

Join Our Village

HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. It’s about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as it is about precision, growth, and top performance.

Becoming a Bobber means you’ll receive a competitive Total Reward offer including:

Financial and Equity Incentives

• Equity Plan: Participation in the Company Share Options Plan.

• Social Contributions and Keren Hishtalmut.

• Employee Referral Program: $2,500 for each successful hire.

• Wolt Benefit (meal card): ₪1,000 per month.

Health and Wellness

• Private Health Insurance: Comprehensive premium medical coverage.

• Sick Leave: Full payment from the first day of illness.

• Wellness Benefits: Annual Headspace subscription and dedicated wellness programs.

• Preventive Screening: Health screenings for employees aged 40+.

Work-Life Balance and Leave

• Paid Time Off: Competitive paid time off policy.

• HiBaby: 3 weeks of additional fully paid bonding time for new parents.

• Bob Balance Days: 4 additional company-wide long-weekend days (one per quarter).

• Social Impact: 2 paid days per year for volunteering and social contribution.

• Work from Anywhere: Temporary remote work option for up to 2 months (available after 6 months of tenure).

• Birthday Day Off: Enjoy a day off during your birthday month.

Hybrid Work and Office Environment

• Hybrid Model: A flexible balance between office and home-based work.

• Home Office Allowance: One-time stipend to ensure an ergonomic and productive home setup.

• Transportation: Monthly travel allowance or parking arrangements.

• Pet-Friendly: Dog-friendly office environment to support a stress-free workplace.

Culture and Growth

• Social Events: Regular team-building and company-wide events, both local and global.

• Professional Growth: A culture built on precision, performance, and ambitious career scaling.

If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village.