About the Role
We're looking for an exceptional Product Architect to own and shape our TymeX architecture. This isn't an ivory tower architecture role where you create perfect designs in isolation. You'll be in action with product and engineering teams, making pragmatic technology decisions that balance speed, cost, and quality.
This role demands someone who can think like a business owner and build like an engineer—someone who obsesses over simplicity, cost efficiency, and customer/business value. You'll challenge expensive vendor solutions, advocate for building vs. buying when it makes sense, and constantly ask "is there a simpler, cheaper way to solve this?" You'll live with your decisions through code reviews, incident responses, and operational feedback loops—ensuring your architectures aren't just elegant on paper but resilient in production.
Please note that expat candidates will need to relocate to Ho Chi Minh City
What You'll Do
Drive Product & Business Value
- Partner with Product Owners and Engineering to challenge requirements and solve real customer problems
- Design with customer empathy—slow approvals lose customers, confusing flows increase defaults
- Prioritize ruthlessly based on impact—simple solutions that ship fast beat "perfect" architectures that take months
- Build lean, cost-efficient systems for price-sensitive markets
Lead Technical Architecture
- Champion simplicity— systems any engineer can understand, question assumptions and push for simpler, faster, cheaper solutions
- Design secure, resilient, scalable architectures that handle peak loads and graceful failures
- Bridge technology-business gaps by translating complex concepts into clear business language
Enable & Grow Teams
- Empower teams to make decisions—coach, don't command
- Stay on the ground through code reviews to validate architectural assumptions
- Pair with engineers during complex implementations and production incidents
- Participate in post-mortems and operational reviews—own and improve when designs cause issues
- Mentor engineers to think architecturally and delegate decisions as teams mature
- Foster psychological safety where teams challenge ideas and admit mistakes freely
Continuously Learn & Improve
- Stay ahead of evolving technologies, industry best practices, and competitive landscapes
- Question assumptions relentlessly—"We've always done it this way" is not a reason
- Be intellectually honest: "This design is complex because I don't fully understand the problem yet"
