About the role
About Exelab
Exelab is a technology partner for enterprise companies, specializing in custom digital applications that enhance customer engagement, streamline business processes, and enable data-driven decision-making.
We are a HubSpot Elite partner, Twilio Gold partner, and AWS partner. We work with leading brands to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions tailored to their needs—going beyond execution to create measurable value across CRM, marketing automation, AI-driven analytics, and customer experience platforms.
The Solution Architect Role
At Exelab we don't sell off-the-shelf products: we build custom solutions, treating every client engagement as a mini product cycle. The Solution Architect is a senior full stack engineer with broader responsibility: the technical owner of the engagement, accountable end-to-end for one or more parallel projects, and still hands-on in the codebase.
Our stack is polyglot by design: NodeJS and Python are first-class backend languages and the Solution Architect is expected to be fluent in both. Python in particular plays a central role across data integrations, automations, and AI/ML workflows—a meaningful share of what we ship has Python at its core.
In our delivery framework, the Solution Architect works in a duo with the Value Builder:
* Value Builder → owns business value, client outcomes, product direction
* Solution Architect → owns solution design, technical feasibility, delivery quality
The two roles are peers. The partnership between them is what makes our engagements work.
Key Responsibilities
* Solution design — translate business problems into well-architected technical solutions, balancing time-to-value, scalability, and maintainability
* Project technical ownership — full accountability for the technical outcome of one or more projects in parallel
* Hands-on engineering — build full stack applications across NodeJS, Python, React/TypeScript, and AWS, staying close to the code
* AI-assisted engineering leadership — be a power user of modern AI coding tools and agentic workflows, and help the team adopt them
* Engineering standards — set and uphold standards on testing, CI/CD, observability, and IaC (AWS CDK)
Cross-functional collaboration — work in continuous dialogue with the Value Builder, Project Managers, and partner specialists
Requirements
Requirements
Experience
* 7+ years in full stack development, at least 2 in a senior/lead capacity
* Proven track record owning the technical side of projects end-to-end
Core technical stack
* NodeJS and its main backend frameworks
* Python as a first-class backend language—for APIs, data processing, automations, and AI/ML workloads
* React and TypeScript for modern frontend development
* AWS, including IaC with AWS CDK
* Relational and non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB)
* RESTful APIs and third-party integrations
* Git and modern development workflows
AI-assisted engineering
* Demonstrated proficiency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and similar) and agentic workflows
* Ability to evaluate, guide, and improve AI-generated code—and to bring others along the same curve
* Evaluated as a core technical skill during the interview process
Soft skills
* Excellent communication, technical and client-facing
* Bias toward action, shipped outcomes, pragmatic trade-offs
* Good command of English, written and spoken
* Italian language proficiency is mandatory
Nice to Have
* Previous experience in a startup or consulting environment
* High-coverage automated testing experience
* Additional programming languages
* AWS or Azure certifications
* CRM, ERP, or Ecommerce integration projects
* Serverless architecture and microservices
* AI and data systems experience
Ideal profile: "7+ years in full stack development with at least 2 in a senior/lead role; proven track record owning the technical side of complex projects end-to-end; strong proficiency in NodeJS, Python, React/TypeScript, and AWS with AWS CDK; advanced practitioner of AI-assisted engineering and agentic workflows; excellent communicator who thrives in tight collaboration with a Value Builder and an extended dev team."
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