Software Developer; Part-Time Technical Architecture Advisor

Overview

Software Developer (Part-Time Technical Architecture Advisor) at Codex-First Recruiting Technology Platform. Part-time advisory | Approximately 4–5 hours/week initially (Surfside, FL).

Origin Staffing is an established boutique recruiting firm with a strong client base, a trusted brand, and more than a decade of operating history. We are building a confidential internal technology platform designed to improve how our recruiting business manages workflow, communication, candidate/client information, notes, historical placement records, reporting, and day-to-day operating intelligence.

This is not a traditional software development role.

Our founder (with 20 years of deep domain expertise) has already built a substantial backend foundation using agentic coding through Codex
, and we intend to remain a Codex-first development environment
. We are looking for an experienced technical advisor, senior software architect, principal engineer, or hands-on fractional CTO type who understands modern AI-assisted development and can help make sure the platform is being built the right way.

You will work directly with the founder as a senior technical sounding board and architecture advisor. Areas may include:

• Reviewing the current backend structure, architecture decisions, and technical direction.
• Helping determine the best path for infrastructure, deployment, environments, CI/CD, and source-control workflow.
• Advising on Microsoft Azure Dev Ops versus Git Hub workflows and related engineering-process decisions.
• Helping shape the frontend strategy and how the frontend/backend should come together.
• Reviewing Codex-generated plans, code, migrations, contracts, tests, and documentation for quality and long-term maintainability.
• Helping define safer approaches to data access, permissions, auditability, confidential information, and production-readiness.
• Advising on future AI/agentic layers, local or proprietary LLM options, workflow automation, and integration strategy.
• Helping prioritize what should be built, hardened, refactored, tested, or deferred.
• Supporting future web-development and platform-adjacent projects as needed.

The strongest fit will likely be someone who already has a full-time role or consulting practice and wants a highly focused, local, part-time advisory engagement.

Required or strongly preferred:

• Significant hands-on software engineering or software architecture experience.
• Direct experience using Codex or comparable agentic coding tools in a real development workflow.
• Strong belief that AI-assisted coding can be powerful when paired with senior technical judgment, testing, review, and architecture discipline.
• Ability to review generated code critically rather than accepting it blindly.
• Experience with backend systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and production-readiness.
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to a founder/operator who is deeply involved in the product but is not a traditional software engineer.
• Comfort working in a founder-led, fast-moving, confidential build environment.
• Local to Miami Beach / Surfside, FL

• Prior experience as a senior software architect, principal engineer, tech lead, founding engineer, CTO, or fractional CTO.
• Experience building larger workflow platforms, SaaS products, internal operating systems, CRM-adjacent tools, recruiting/staffing technology, business intelligence tools, email/workflow systems, or automation-heavy platforms.
• Experience with Python/FastAPI, SQL databases, cloud deployment, Azure, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub, modern frontend frameworks, OpenAI/Codex, local LLMs, agent orchestration, or AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Experience helping founder-led or nontraditional technical teams turn a promising internal platform into a more production-grade system.
• Experience with secure data handling, permissions, audit trails, confidential business data, and staged access controls.
• Part-time advisory role.
• Initial expectation: approximately 4–5 hours per week
  .
• Preferred cadence: one in-person working session per week in Miami Beach / Surfside, FL.
• Schedule can be flexible and…