Principal Architect, Granum
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Software ecosystem for the green industry
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Software ecosystem for the green industry
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower landscapers and arborists to unlock their potential by improving their operations.
Role
Who you are
- A track record as a hands-on architect. You've led the architecture of a non-trivial, production SaaS platform and driven a real codebase from where it was to where it needed to be. You can still read and write code credibly; you're a leader who architects, not an architect who's stopped building
- Depth across our stack. You have deep .NET experience including modernizing legacy .NET Framework systems. Angular, Azure, and AWS experience is a plus
- Systems and integration architecture. You think naturally about how applications and services fit together (integrations, data flow, deployment topology) and how to evolve them safely over time
- API architecture. You understand how to expose, secure, and version APIs, who's integrated and how, and how to change an API surface without breaking the people who depend on it
- A security-first instinct. You reason about auth, access, and exposure by default, and treat security as a property of the architecture rather than a later add-on
- Systems thinking and pragmatism. You fight complexity. You default to boring, well-understood technology and community solutions over bespoke builds, and you can tell the difference between architecture that unblocks teams and architecture that just looks impressive
- Fluency with AI-assisted development. You're comfortable with agentic coding tools as a primary development mode, and you have views on how to make a codebase and its patterns work well for both engineers and agents
- Product and Customer Focus. You've worked closely with product managers and tie technical decisions to customer outcomes. You see Product as a partner, not an obstacle
- Leadership. You've led engineers through feedback and unblocking. This includes setting direction, growing people, and running a healthy team rhythm
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Principal Architect to lead Granum's Architecture team and help drive the development of our technical roadmap
- This is a hands-on player/coach role in which you'll lead a small team of architects and work in the code alongside them
- You'll report to the CTO and work shoulder-to-shoulder with our Platforms, Product, and feature-pod leaders
- Our products are real, mature, and used every day by landscape professionals to run their operations
- That means the interesting problems aren't greenfield; instead they are about executing a clean go-forward architecture and pulling a large, living codebase toward it without stopping the business
- You'll help drive the application and system architecture across the portfolio, plan and develop platform upgrade tooling and processes (Angular,
- NET, shared libraries), and reduce the technical debt that spans teams
- Your job will be to provide the stable, secure, scalable foundation that feature teams build on by reducing systemic friction and clarifying technical direction so teams can deliver value quickly and confidently
- We're also an AI-native engineering org
- We expect agents to do a lot of the heavy lifting on code, and part of your job will be to make our architecture legible to both engineers and coding agents, which includes clear patterns, good context, and docs that live where they belong
- If you think the future of this craft is orchestrating and reviewing rather than typing every line, you'll fit right in
- This is a role for someone who has real opinions about architecture but holds them loosely enough to serve the team
- We believe in YAGNI, KISS, boring technology, and community solutions over custom builds
- Good architecture here means less complexity for the pods, not more
- Technical Roadmap Execution. Turning Granum's architecture roadmap into sequenced, visible work. That includes spotting cross-team dependencies during quarterly planning, before pods run into them mid-sprint
- Standards and the foundation. Architectural standards and guardrails, and the patterns for how we build a component and wire it into the existing app. Each component should do one thing well and be well tested
- Platform and technology stewardship. Planning and coordinating major upgrades (Angular, .NET, shared libraries), evaluating new technologies, and driving down cross-team technical debt
- Deployment and delivery enablement. Deployment patterns and shared CI/CD guidance that let teams own the deployment of their own code with system-wide consistency and safety
- Security posture. Application security and how identity and access work, and how our APIs are exposed and secured
- The AI-native development model. Defining how humans and agents interact in our process, and making sure our architecture supports agentic development
- The Architecture Pod. Leading, growing, and setting the operating rhythm for the Architecture Pod, and keeping it focused on foundation work
Our take
Granum is the result of a merger of the companies SingleOps, LMN and Greenius, which delivers software for green industry players such as landscapers, tree care providers and irrigation services. It does this to help them streamline their workflows and optimise the experience of their customers.
Granum's offers comprehensive collection of business software including; CRM and invoicing, scheduling and job costing, reporting and analytics, and much more. Though it is not unique in delivering these features, its specialisation in serving green industry clients makes it a strong choice for businesses in that field, who may not find many industry-tailored options on the market.
With good funding at its back, the company has been expanding both its platform and its team. In 2022 it was ranked as the fastest-growing software company in the green industry for the second consecutive year. With a string of acquisitions and new innovations, the company is on steady track to remain at the forefront of this sector.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2022
$74m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2020
$6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $82.6m
Company benefits
- Great insurance (health, dental, and vision)
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Remote work environment
- Sabbatical benefit
- Company-Paid Health Insurance
Company HQ
Sandy Springs, GA
Leadership
Mark Sedgley
(CEO)They are also the CEO of LMN. Previously the CEO of Traxero and CRO of Personify Corp. They also spent over 16 years at MemberClicks, joining as a Director of Customer Experience before becoming a VP of Sales & Business Development and then the President and CEO.
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