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Remote lead architect jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams hiring in software, finance, healthcare, and beyond. Companies hiring remote lead architects right now include Humana, Zones, and Peraton. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Job description
G5 Games is a Swedish developer and publisher of mobile games, founded in 2001. Our projects — Sherlock, Hidden City®, Jewels of Rome®, and others — have reached an audience of 300 million players worldwide. The average tenure of our employees is 6 years: this is a company where experts stay for the long term.
Leaders at G5 work in a global environment with experienced professionals and influence both processes and product.
We are currently looking for an experienced Lead AdTech Architect (SSP & DSP) to lead the development and evolution of our proprietary AdTech platform (SDK + SSP + DSP), combining strategic architectural planning with technical leadership and hands-on involvement in designing and bringing a high-load system into production.
What you will work on:
Advertising SDK Development
- Design the architecture of an advertising SDK for integration with Windows applications (Win32/UWP) and interaction with our proprietary SSP, including mechanisms for requesting, receiving, and displaying ads, as well as collecting impression, click, and other user interaction events.
- Define requirements for SDK performance, reliability, security, and compatibility with various applications, lead its technical implementation, and ensure its future development and support for additional platforms.
SSP (Supply-Side Platform) Development
- Design and launch an SSP to sell advertising inventory from our own games, with the subsequent addition of third-party publishers, including the implementation of ad auctions, inventory management, placement rules, floor prices, and ad formats.
- Design SSP integrations with existing mediation solutions, ad exchanges, external DSPs, and other demand sources, as well as technical solutions for publisher onboarding, application and ad placement configuration, reporting, settlements, and traffic quality control, with the ability to expand beyond Windows.
DSP (Demand-Side Platform) Development
- Design the architecture for purchasing ad impressions and managing advertising campaigns, including budget, audience, creative, and frequency cap configuration, bidding logic, pacing, and campaign optimization.
- Ensure campaign performance measurement and reconciliation of results with advertisers and publishers, and evaluate the feasibility of developing DSP components in-house versus using partner solutions.
Technical Architecture and Development Leadership
- Define the target architecture of the AdTech platform, technical roadmap, and phased launch plan; design API and RTB integrations based on OpenAPI, OpenRTB, and relevant industry standards, ensuring low-latency RTB auctions, high availability, scalability, observability, and protection against ad fraud.
- Design the architecture of event collection, analytics, reporting, billing, and data reconciliation systems; define approaches to ensuring ad creative quality and supply chain transparency; collaborate with Game Development, Analytics, Ad Monetization, Product, and Marketing teams; and build and develop the engineering team as the platform grows.
What We Expect:
- Have experience in architectural design and documentation of complex systems using established approaches and notations (C4 Model, UML, architecture diagrams, ADRs).
- Have experience designing and developing SSPs, ad exchanges, DSPs, or other RTB platforms, including hands-on experience taking at least one side of an advertising platform from architecture design through to production, and strong technical experience with the other side.
- Be familiar with OpenRTB 2.x, have experience integrating with DSPs, SSPs, or ad exchanges, and understand how ad auctions work, including bid requests and bid responses, floor prices, timeouts, win/loss notifications, and billing notifications.
- Have experience working with SSP functionality, including inventory management, publisher onboarding, mediation, external demand sources, and revenue optimization.
- Have experience working with DSP functionality, including advertising campaign and budget management, targeting, bidding, pacing, optimization, and performance measurement.
- Have experience designing backend architectures, event streams, reporting systems, and financial reconciliation systems, and understand distributed backend architectures, network protocols (HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP), APIs, caching, and the principles of building high-performance web services in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Be familiar with advertising formats and technologies (Display, Video, VAST, VPAID, MRAID, HTML creatives), ad quality control practices, fraud detection, advertising inventory protection, and advertising supply chain transparency standards (ads.txt, app-ads.txt, sellers.json, SupplyChain object).
- Demonstrate technical leadership skills, including the ability to justify architectural decisions, assess risks and development costs, set priorities, and develop an engineering team. Have a working level of English sufficient for negotiations with international partners and reading technical documentation.
Would Be a Plus:
- Have experience implementing and monetizing advertising in Windows games, including working with ad formats and integrating SDKs into UWP or Win32 applications.
- Understand personal data protection and user consent management requirements (Consent Management), including GDPR and their application in AdTech systems.
- Have experience applying ML or data-driven approaches to optimize bidding and revenue.
- Have experience contributing to the formation and development of engineering teams, including hiring specialists, developing technical expertise, and mentoring.
What We Offer:
- An employment contract or a contractor agreement, depending on your location.
- Fully remote work with company-provided equipment.
- Paid vacation and 3 additional sick days per year — no doctor's note required.
- Medical insurance and gym membership reimbursement.
- A close-knit team of professionals with deep expertise in mobile game development.
- Relocation support: financial assistance and guidance at every step — from choosing a country to obtaining legal status.
We look forward to your application!
More about G5 Games:
All official communications with G5 Games representatives are conducted exclusively through the g5.com domain. We carefully review each application within a week. If your experience and skills match our requirements, we will contact you for further discussion. If there isn’t a suitable position at the moment, we will add you to our talent pool and notify you when a relevant opportunity arises.
Job description
G5 Games is a Swedish developer and publisher of mobile games, founded in 2001. Our projects — Sherlock, Hidden City®, Jewels of Rome®, and others — have reached an audience of 300 million players worldwide. The average tenure of our employees is 6 years: this is a company where experts stay for the long term.
Leaders at G5 work in a global environment with experienced professionals and influence both processes and product.
We are currently looking for an experienced Lead AdTech Architect (SSP & DSP) to lead the development and evolution of our proprietary AdTech platform (SDK + SSP + DSP), combining strategic architectural planning with technical leadership and hands-on involvement in designing and bringing a high-load system into production.
What you will work on:
Advertising SDK Development
- Design the architecture of an advertising SDK for integration with Windows applications (Win32/UWP) and interaction with our proprietary SSP, including mechanisms for requesting, receiving, and displaying ads, as well as collecting impression, click, and other user interaction events.
- Define requirements for SDK performance, reliability, security, and compatibility with various applications, lead its technical implementation, and ensure its future development and support for additional platforms.
SSP (Supply-Side Platform) Development
- Design and launch an SSP to sell advertising inventory from our own games, with the subsequent addition of third-party publishers, including the implementation of ad auctions, inventory management, placement rules, floor prices, and ad formats.
- Design SSP integrations with existing mediation solutions, ad exchanges, external DSPs, and other demand sources, as well as technical solutions for publisher onboarding, application and ad placement configuration, reporting, settlements, and traffic quality control, with the ability to expand beyond Windows.
DSP (Demand-Side Platform) Development
- Design the architecture for purchasing ad impressions and managing advertising campaigns, including budget, audience, creative, and frequency cap configuration, bidding logic, pacing, and campaign optimization.
- Ensure campaign performance measurement and reconciliation of results with advertisers and publishers, and evaluate the feasibility of developing DSP components in-house versus using partner solutions.
Technical Architecture and Development Leadership
- Define the target architecture of the AdTech platform, technical roadmap, and phased launch plan; design API and RTB integrations based on OpenAPI, OpenRTB, and relevant industry standards, ensuring low-latency RTB auctions, high availability, scalability, observability, and protection against ad fraud.
- Design the architecture of event collection, analytics, reporting, billing, and data reconciliation systems; define approaches to ensuring ad creative quality and supply chain transparency; collaborate with Game Development, Analytics, Ad Monetization, Product, and Marketing teams; and build and develop the engineering team as the platform grows.
What We Expect:
- Have experience in architectural design and documentation of complex systems using established approaches and notations (C4 Model, UML, architecture diagrams, ADRs).
- Have experience designing and developing SSPs, ad exchanges, DSPs, or other RTB platforms, including hands-on experience taking at least one side of an advertising platform from architecture design through to production, and strong technical experience with the other side.
- Be familiar with OpenRTB 2.x, have experience integrating with DSPs, SSPs, or ad exchanges, and understand how ad auctions work, including bid requests and bid responses, floor prices, timeouts, win/loss notifications, and billing notifications.
- Have experience working with SSP functionality, including inventory management, publisher onboarding, mediation, external demand sources, and revenue optimization.
- Have experience working with DSP functionality, including advertising campaign and budget management, targeting, bidding, pacing, optimization, and performance measurement.
- Have experience designing backend architectures, event streams, reporting systems, and financial reconciliation systems, and understand distributed backend architectures, network protocols (HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP), APIs, caching, and the principles of building high-performance web services in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Be familiar with advertising formats and technologies (Display, Video, VAST, VPAID, MRAID, HTML creatives), ad quality control practices, fraud detection, advertising inventory protection, and advertising supply chain transparency standards (ads.txt, app-ads.txt, sellers.json, SupplyChain object).
- Demonstrate technical leadership skills, including the ability to justify architectural decisions, assess risks and development costs, set priorities, and develop an engineering team. Have a working level of English sufficient for negotiations with international partners and reading technical documentation.
Would Be a Plus:
- Have experience implementing and monetizing advertising in Windows games, including working with ad formats and integrating SDKs into UWP or Win32 applications.
- Understand personal data protection and user consent management requirements (Consent Management), including GDPR and their application in AdTech systems.
- Have experience applying ML or data-driven approaches to optimize bidding and revenue.
- Have experience contributing to the formation and development of engineering teams, including hiring specialists, developing technical expertise, and mentoring.
What We Offer:
- An employment contract or a contractor agreement, depending on your location.
- Fully remote work with company-provided equipment.
- Paid vacation and 3 additional sick days per year — no doctor's note required.
- Medical insurance and gym membership reimbursement.
- A close-knit team of professionals with deep expertise in mobile game development.
- Relocation support: financial assistance and guidance at every step — from choosing a country to obtaining legal status.
We look forward to your application!
More about G5 Games:
All official communications with G5 Games representatives are conducted exclusively through the g5.com domain. We carefully review each application within a week. If your experience and skills match our requirements, we will contact you for further discussion. If there isn’t a suitable position at the moment, we will add you to our talent pool and notify you when a relevant opportunity arises.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Retail
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote lead architect jobs.
- Ten or more years of software engineering or infrastructure experience with demonstrated systems design leadership
- Proficiency designing cloud-native architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience leading cross-functional technical teams and mentoring senior engineers
- Strong command of microservices, distributed systems, and API design patterns
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Tips for Your Remote Lead Architect Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote lead architect openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and seniority and apply directly without sorting through mixed listings.
Show async decision-making in your portfolio
Remote lead architect interviews prioritize candidates who document architectural decisions clearly without meetings. Include architecture decision records, design docs, or RFC templates you've authored to prove you can lead technical direction asynchronously.
Target remote-first companies over hybrid postings
Remote-first firms build workflows around distributed collaboration from the start, making them more likely to give lead architects real autonomy. Look for companies that list tools like Notion, Linear, or Loom in job descriptions as signals of genuine remote culture.
Prepare for remote system design interviews
Remote lead architect interviews often use shared diagramming tools like Excalidraw or Miro instead of whiteboards. Practice explaining design tradeoffs in writing and walking interviewers through diagrams you build live on screen during a video call.
Remote Lead Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote lead architect job?
Remote lead architect roles go to candidates who can demonstrate strong self-direction, clear async written communication, and the ability to drive architectural decisions without in-person oversight. Remote-first companies and distributed product teams are the most active hirers. What gives you an edge is a documented portfolio of system design decisions, experience with tools like Confluence, Miro, or ADRs, and a history of leading teams across time zones.
Which companies hire remote lead architects?
Companies hiring remote lead architects right now include Humana, Zones, and Peraton, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first software firms, distributed fintech teams, and cloud-native companies are the most consistent hirers of lead architects working fully remotely.
Can you get a remote lead architect job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level lead architect roles are harder to land because you're expected to operate independently from day one without on-site mentoring. Smaller remote-first startups and open-source-driven organizations are most open to candidates earlier in their career. Showing a public portfolio of architecture diagrams, design decision records, or technical writing can substitute for years of formal lead experience.
Do you need a degree for remote lead architect jobs?
Not always. Remote employers focus heavily on demonstrated system design ability, hands-on experience with cloud platforms and distributed systems, and evidence that you've led technical decisions at scale. A strong GitHub portfolio, open-source contributions, or prior staff or principal engineer roles can carry more weight than a degree for many remote teams.
Which industries hire the most remote lead architects?
Remote lead architect roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Retail, and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed engineering teams where lead architects coordinate design and standards across time zones without a central office.
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