Principal Software Architect, Restaurant365
Platform
$190-285k
Offers equity
Restaurant management software
Open for applications
Restaurant management software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$190-285k
Offers equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help restaurants increase sales control food costs, and optimize labor.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- 14+ years of engineering experience, including significant experience with large-scale, distributed systems and platform architecture
- Proven leadership in architecture, standards, and cross-functional collaboration across multiple teams and domains
- Recognized expertise in multiple domains such as identity and access management, permissions models, workflow/orchestration, integrations/APIs, and data-intensive services
- Demonstrated success leading modernization and decomposition efforts (e.g., from monolith to modular or service-oriented/platform architectures)
- Experienced designing or evolving extensible platforms or marketplaces (e.g., APIs, extensions, partner integrations, or app ecosystems) is strongly preferred
- Mastery of system design, architectural patterns, and tradeoff analysis, including scalability, reliability, performance, security, and cost optimization
- Track record of influencing technical strategy through platform and ecosystem decisions
- Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex platform concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executives and external partners
- Strong coaching and mentorship skills, with experience developing senior engineers and architects in platform and systems design
- Experienced with SaaS, ERP, and/or restaurant technology
- Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD), event-driven architecture, API lifecycle / governance, and observability / SLO-based engineering
What the job involves
- The Principal Software Architect, Platform is a senior technical leader responsible for the core platform architecture that underpins R365’s products
- You’ll drive the design for shared platform services (identity, permissions, workflow, integrations, data foundations, and core application capabilities), ensuring they are secure, scalable, and reusable across product lines
- In addition to platform decomposition and modernization, you will guide the organization toward a scalable marketplace ecosystem that enables partners, developers, and product teams to safely extend and innovate on the platform through well-defined APIs, events, and extension models
- This role combines deep hands-on architectural expertise with cross-functional leadership, driving technical standards that enable teams to deliver faster with higher quality
- Own and evolve the end-to-end architecture for core Platform services, including identity, permissions, workflow, integration, and shared domain capabilities
- Define clear service boundaries, contracts, and patterns that enable modularity, reusability, and safe change across the platform
- Shape and advance the platform’s marketplace and extensibility architecture, including API exposure patterns, eventing and webhook models, app/extension sandboxing, and partner integration approaches that allow third parties and internal teams to build safely on top of R365
- Lead platform-focused architecture reviews and technical governance, ensuring consistency with enterprise architecture and long-term strategy
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to embed platform-first and marketplace-ready thinking into roadmaps and execution plans, aligning platform investments with ecosystem and extensibility goals
- Drive modernization of legacy components into well-defined platform services and extension points, aligning teams on migration strategies, sequencing, and success criteria
- Establish and maintain reference architectures, patterns, and frameworks (including marketplace and integration blueprints) that product teams can adopt to build on the platform efficiently
- Anticipate platform-level risks (scalability, reliability, performance, security, data integrity, and ecosystem complexity) and design long-term solutions that prevent systemic issues
- Mentor architects and principal engineers across product lines, raising architectural maturity and promoting shared platform and marketplace patterns and practices
- Provide deep architectural guidance on complex cross-team initiatives, acting as a key decision-maker for platform and marketplace-related tradeoffs
- Represent the Platform architecture in cross-functional forums, translating technical direction—especially around extensibility and ecosystem growth—into clear business value and outcomes
- Contribute to external technical communities as a platform subject-matter expert, reinforcing R365’s position as a leading, extensible SaaS platform provider
Our take
Restaurant management can be rather outdated, often relying on spreadsheets and physical receipts. Restaurant365 develops all-in-one management software solutions for the restaurant industry, encompassing accounting, analytics, staff, and inventory management within its toolkit.
Restaurant365’s customer base isn’t just restaurants though, it’s software attracts accounting firms that work with restaurants as well as small eateries and large franchises. It’s expansive customer base is reflected in the amount of funding that it has received since its founding in 2011, now making it a verified Unicorn.
Restaurant365’s most recent round of funding came in 2024, and its $175 million will be invested into further enhancing its product. The company's success is unprecedented, as most would bet that restaurant industries post-pandemic would struggle to get back on their feet. Restaurant365 defied expectations though, and actually turned out to be the company that COVID-hit restaurants relied on to keep their heads above water. This goes some way to explain the success of Restaurant365, which is a proven aid for the ailing dining industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
118% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2024
$175m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2023
$135m
LATE VC
Total funding: $437.5m
Company benefits
- Fully Covered Health Insurance: R365 provides comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage—100% paid for full-time employees.
- Flexible Time Off: Recharge when you need, so you can stay energized and focused.
- 401k with employer math.
- Stock options to purchase equity.
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Employee discount programs to lifestyle vendors and servcies.
- Annual learning and development reimbursement.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning.
- Employee recognition and TIP program.
- Fertility guidance and support.
- Online legal solutions.
- Paid parental leave.
- Disability insurance.
- Pet and life insurance.
- Wellness programs.
- Health concierge and support.
- Meditation and mindfulness courses.
- Gym discounts and virtual fitness classes.
Company HQ
East Irvine, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Tony Smith
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously on the Board of Directors at Dynamic Methods. Before that, they were a Director of Services there.
Morgan Harris
(Co-Founder & Chief Customer Advocate)Previously Partner and Co-Founder at Dynamic Methods, Account Executive/Senior Consultant at Foreshock and Auditor at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
John Moody
(Co-Founder, Chief Strategist & Board Member)Previously CRM Managing Partner and Board Member at Dynamic Methods.
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