Technical Delivery Lead (Software Architecture & Cloudflare Workers)

Hi, We’re looking for a senior, hands-on technical consultant to represent the founders in discussions with our external software development partner and cloud providers. You’ll guide improvements to the architecture, code, and user experience throughout development, independently verify the partner’s work, and advise the founders on milestone approval. What you’ll deliver - Improve the software architecture. Review high-level and detailed designs, including how the application is divided into modules, how services communicate, and how data is stored and accessed. Recommend changes that simplify the system and make it easier to maintain, scale, and operate. Validate major decisions with benchmarks or small proofs of concept where needed. - Improve code quality. Review critical code and pull requests. Identify duplicated logic, slow queries, weak error handling, and gaps in test coverage. Give engineers specific refactoring or implementation guidance, agree on acceptance criteria, and verify the changes in code and staging. - Improve UI/UX with the design and development teams. Review prototypes and working builds against key user journeys. Flag confusing steps, inconsistent interactions, accessibility issues, and gaps between the approved design and the implemented product. Recommend practical changes and verify the updated flows on mobile and web. - Review security and release readiness. Assess authentication, access controls, API security, secrets, and data protection. Prioritize findings, agree on fixes with engineers, retest them, and flag issues that should block a release. - Oversee Cloudflare Workers and DevOps. Assess which workloads belong in Workers and which belong in backend services. Review caching, CI/CD, monitoring, failure handling, and rollback. Help engineers diagnose production issues and verify fixes. - Reduce cloud infrastructure costs. Establish a cost baseline for compute, storage, bandwidth, databases, and related services. Target 40% or more in savings where feasible through architecture improvements, better resource sizing, and vendor negotiations. Compare like-for-like workloads, report projected and verified savings separately, and maintain agreed performance, reliability, security, and data residency requirements. - Source and negotiate with cloud vendors. Shortlist providers and specialist partners, compare proposals and pricing, and lead technical discussions with Cloudflare and other providers. Support commercial negotiations and obtain written confirmation of key service and support commitments where applicable. - Report progress and advise on milestone approval. Give the founders a weekly update on what was delivered, what you verified, and what needs correction. Track issues with an owner and due date. At each milestone, recommend approval, approval subject to specific corrections, or holding approval. Verify production readiness, access, and documentation before handover. The development partner implements the changes. You provide technical direction, verify the results, and report directly to the founders, who retain final approval and commercial authority. What we’re looking for - Senior engineering, technical lead, or software architecture experience taking a product from design through production. - Hands-on experience building, deploying, and troubleshooting Cloudflare Workers in production. - Ability to review TypeScript/JavaScript and Python/Django code, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD pipelines. - Experience improving an existing architecture and codebase, guiding engineers through refactoring, and verifying the results. - Ability to review UI/UX in prototypes and working builds and give clear, actionable feedback to designers and engineers. - Experience reviewing an external development team’s work, assessing security and release readiness, and explaining technical risks and trade-offs to founders. - Experience evaluating cloud providers, reducing infrastructure costs, and supporting vendor negotiations.