Applaudo Studios
Principal Integration Architect
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Mexico only
Employer listed it 2 weeks ago · Added today
Been open since 2 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Mexico only
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $205k–$275k a year, a typical range taken from 599 lead-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Mexico. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico, Mexico City, CDMX, mx, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in Mexico
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
About You
You are a Principal Architect with deep expertise in Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, and API governance. We are looking for someone who has built enterprise-scale integration platforms and knows how to standardize how business domains communicate across systems and verticals. You will own decisions end-to-end, communicate blockers proactively, and influence engineering culture across multiple teams. You are as comfortable whiteboarding domain models with business stakeholders as you are reviewing pull requests with engineers.
You are energized by AI adoption as a daily practitioner, you use tools like Copilot, RAG, or agentic workflows to build faster and better.  This is a hands-on architecture role, not a delivery, program, or project management position.
 
Note:  This position is offered under a  contractor model.
 
You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
10+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
5+ years of experience in Architecture, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Technical Leadership roles (with active, current hands-on coding).
Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale integration platforms and distributed systems, your core value is building a unified enterprise integration layer that standardizes how business domains communicate across systems and verticals.
Strong expertise in: Modern .NET patterns, async pipelines, and enterprise-scale codebases.
API Architecture and Enterprise Integrations including API governance at scale.
Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
Test-Driven Development (TDD).
Microservices and Distributed Systems.
Cloud-Native Architecture.
Hands-on experience with enterprise messaging/event platforms — Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, RabbitMQ, Solace, Apache Kafka, or AWS SQS. Azure is highly desired but not mandatory: equivalent depth with any of the above is acceptable.
Strong understanding of REST APIs, OpenAPI Specifications, OAuth2, OIDC, API Security, and Identity Management.
Experience implementing observability practices, including monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, and telemetry.
Modern .NET and C# experience is highly desired but not mandatory. Comparable depth in an equivalent stack (e.g., Java) is acceptable.
Daily, hands-on use of AI tools as part of your own engineering workflow (Copilot, RAG-based tools, agentic coding assistants).
Knowledge of CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga Patterns, and Distributed Transaction Management.
Requirements
- ·Note:  This position is offered under a  contractor model.
- ·You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:
- ·Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
- ·10+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Applaudo Studios, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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