Application architect, Software Development, Backend Developer

At doTERRA we encourage all employees to seek out opportunities that will expand their skill set. We strive to help achieve personal career goals by providing opportunities of growth and movement throughout the company.

Job Title: Application Architect

Location: Pleasant Grove, UT

Department: IT

Reports To: CTO

Serves: Director of eCommerce, Director of Leader Tools

Type: Full-time

doTERRA is seeking an Application Architect to own and drive a unified, high-performance backend architecture across our Leader Tools and eCommerce platforms. This strategic role is responsible for API design, microservices architecture, data layer strategy, and backend governance, ensuring scalable, reliable, and secure experiences across all customer and leader-facing applications. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role — you will be a significant, active programming contributor to core projects, writing and reviewing production code alongside the teams you lead.

As a cross‑functional leader, you will partner closely with the Director of eCommerce and Director of Leader Tools to align technical delivery with product vision. You will act as a force multiplier for development teams by delivering reusable backend architecture and enabling teams to build faster, more reliably, and with greater consistency.

• Architect & Lead Backend Strategy:
  Define, evolve, and document the server‑side architecture for eCommerce and Leader Tools applications, aligning with product strategy and scalability requirements.
• Own the API Layer:
  Design, maintain, and scale a centralized API strategy including RESTful APIs, ensuring consistency, performance, and developer usability across all services.
• Govern Backend Standards:
  Establish and enforce API design standards, coding conventions, security practices, and architectural best practices across all server‑side projects.
• Partner Across Product Areas:
  Serve as a shared service to the eCommerce and Leader Tools product teams, ensuring both areas benefit from shared services, data models, and infrastructure patterns.
• Mentor & Guide Developers:
  Provide technical guidance and governance to full‑stack and backend developers, conduct code and architecture reviews, and enable successful adoption of patterns and tooling.
• Ensure Performance, Security & Reliability:
  Champion high availability, fault tolerance, data integrity, security best practices (OWASP), and compliance standards across all backend systems.
• Tooling & Documentation:
  Deliver excellent developer tooling, API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger), and runbooks to support developer self‑service and cross‑team collaboration.
• Drive Innovation:
  Stay ahead of trends in backend frameworks, cloud‑native architecture, and distributed systems to continually modernize our server‑side ecosystem.
• Hands‑On Programming Contributor:
  Actively write, review, and ship production‑quality code as a significant contributor to core platform projects. This role is not purely advisory; you are expected to lead by example in the codebase, maintaining deep technical fluency and direct ownership of critical backend components.

• 7+ years of experience in backend or full‑stack development, including 3+ years in a technical leadership or architectural role.
• Proven track record as a hands‑on programmer with the ability to be a significant individual contributor to core engineering projects; active, regular coding is required in addition to architectural leadership.
• Deep expertise in server‑side languages and frameworks such as Node.js, Java, or Python, with strong proficiency in Type Script or equivalent typed languages.
• Proven experience designing and scaling microservices architectures, event‑driven systems, and distributed platforms in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong background in API design and development, including REST and Graph
  
  QL, with experience in API gateway patterns, versioning, and rate limiting.
• Hands‑on experience with relational and non‑relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, Mongo
  
  DB, Redis), including query optimization and data modeling.
• Hands‑on experience in SAP’s Commerce Cloud preferred.
• Solid…