About the Role:

We are seeking an IoT Solutions Architect / Engineer with 710 years of experience to lead the architecture and integration of our complete IoT platform. This is the most senior technical role focused on systems architecture, you'll be responsible for ensuring all components (hardware, firmware, BLE, mobile apps, cloud backend, data pipelines) work together seamlessly.

You will define the technical architecture, establish integration patterns, design communication protocols, ensure system reliability and scalability, and drive technical decisions across the organization. You'll work with hardware, firmware, mobile, backend, and ML teams to create a cohesive platform that works flawlessly in life-critical situations.

This role requires broad technical expertise across the full IoT stack combined with deep knowledge in multiple areas. You should have strong experience with embedded systems, wireless protocols, mobile app architectures, cloud platforms, and distributed systems. You must be able to dive deep into any layer of the stack while maintaining the big-picture architectural vision.

If you're a systems thinker who loves designing elegant architectures, solving complex integration challenges, and leading technical strategy for products that save lives, this is your opportunity.

What You'll Do:

At Quin, this isn't just a job, it's a mission. Here's how you'll make an impact:

- Define Platform Architecture: Architect the complete IoT platform from device to cloud. Design how components communicate, how data flows through the system, how services scale, and how everything integrates reliably. Make fundamental architectural decisions that shape the platform for years.

- Design Communication Protocols: Define BLE protocols between devices and mobile apps, API contracts between mobile and backend, data sync strategies, and message formats. Ensure protocols are efficient, extensible, and robust against failures.

- Establish Integration Patterns: Create patterns and standards for hardware-firmware integration, firmware-mobile communication, mobile-backend sync, and service-to-service communication. Build frameworks that make integration straightforward and reliable.

- Integrate Multi-Sensor Systems: Design conditioning circuits for IMUs, accelerometers, force sensors, and environmental sensors. Ensure accurate signal acquisition, proper filtering, and robust noise immunity in harsh environments.

- Ensure System Reliability: Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, error recovery, and resilience. Architect systems that work reliably even with network failures, device crashes, or unexpected conditions. Safety-critical systems must always work.

- Drive Scalability and Performance: Architect cloud services that scale efficiently from hundreds to millions of devices. Optimize data pipelines, design efficient sync protocols, and ensure low latency for time-critical operations like crash detection and emergency alerts.

- Lead Security and Privacy: Design security architecture including device authentication, encrypted communication, secure data storage, privacy-preserving analytics, and compliance with regulations. Security must be built into every layer.

- Mentor and Lead Engineers: Provide technical guidance to engineers across hardware, firmware, mobile, and backend teams. Conduct architecture reviews, drive design decisions, establish best practices, and elevate technical capabilities across the organization.

- Solve Integration Challenges: Debug complex issues that span multiple layers of the stack. When the device won't connect to the app, when data sync fails, when crash detection doesn't trigger alerts, you diagnose and fix cross-system problems.

- Drive Technical Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, assess their fit for our platform, prototype solutions, and drive adoption of techniques that improve the product. Stay at the forefront of IoT, edge computing, and distributed systems.

- Establish Development Standards: Define coding standards, API design guidelines, testing strategies, deployment processes, and documentation practices. Build technical foundations that enable the team to move fast without breaking things.

- Partner with Product and Leadership: Translate business requirements into technical architecture. Advise on what's possible, what's hard, and what's risky. Influence product roadmap based on technical insights and platform capabilities.

Basic Qualifications:

- 710 years of professional experience in IoT systems, distributed systems, or full-stack platform development

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field

- Deep technical expertise across multiple layers of the IoT stack: embedded systems, wireless protocols, mobile development, backend services, and cloud infrastructure

- Strong hands-on experience with BLE protocols, IoT connectivity, and device-to-cloud communication patterns

- Proven experience in architecting and building production IoT platforms or distributed systems that scaled successfully

- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including serverless architectures, databases, message queues, and microservices

- Experience with mobile application architectures (iOS and Android) and mobile-backend integration patterns

- Strong knowledge of embedded systems, firmware development, and hardware-software integration

- Experience with data synchronisation, conflict resolution, and offline-first architectures

- Track record of technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and driving architectural decisions across teams