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Job Summary:
Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. The Senior Product Architect will design and build internal products that enhance the efficiency of Customer Experience, Sales, and Partner-facing teams, contributing significantly to both implementation and architecture of these systems.
Responsibilities:
• Own and evolve a focused set of internal tools, utilities, and integrations that support the Customer Experience organization (CSMs, Support, Professional Services, Learning Services) and cross-functional internal users such as Sales, Partnerships, and Pricing & Packaging
• Lead R&D and rapid prototyping efforts to identify high-leverage solutions, then determine which ideas should remain lightweight, which should be operationalized, and which should be designed for clean handoff to other teams
• Build production-quality front-end and back-end code, including API design, data flows, resilience, observability, and robust internal user experiences that align with our design system and engineering standards
• Apply component-based and front-end best practices to ensure internal tools are consistent, scalable, and maintainable
• Leverage Contentful and other internal platforms where appropriate to create reusable patterns and scalable internal solutions rather than reinventing common capabilities from scratch
• Explore and implement web crawler and scraper approaches, structured extraction workflows, and other internal data-ingestion patterns
• Explore and implement AI-assisted workflows where relevant to improve internal tools, accelerate development, and support pragmatic experimentation without compromising quality or maintainability
• Collaborate with IT, InfoSec, Platform, Legal, and Privacy partners on responsible data handling, hosting, identity, compliance, and operational readiness
• Define success metrics, instrument telemetry, report impact, and document architecture & playbooks so that stakeholders understand where they unlock value for Sales, CSMs, Professional Services, and adjacent teams, and how other teams can support or extend the systems over time
Qualifications:
Required:
• Demonstrated ability to balance system design with hands-on implementation, including recent experience contributing to production codebases
• 7–10 years building and operating production web applications
• Hands-on expertise with modern TypeScript, React and Next.js (or equivalent), state management, testing, performance, and accessibility best practices
• Back-end experience with Node.js and TypeScript, API design, eventing or queues, and serverless or containerized services, along with sound observability practices across logs, metrics, and traces
• Experience with Contentful or similar API-first CMS and composable content platforms
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical designs and scalable implementations, engineered for maintainability and ownership transfer
• Experience designing web application architectures, data flows, and integration points across multiple systems, with judgment about when to build a full product, when to automate, and when to keep a solution intentionally small
• Experience establishing lightweight engineering practices for a small team, including clear documentation, code review norms, testing approaches, release discipline, and operational readiness
• Mentorship and technical leadership that raises the bar on code quality, design rigor, and documentation while helping peers make better architectural decisions
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, along with a bias for action and evidence-based decision making
Preferred:
• Practical experience with AI and LLM-based workflows, particularly spec-based development, evaluation, and test or guardrail processes
• Experience working with component-based front-end architectures and design systems, including design tokens, component libraries, CSS architecture, accessibility, and Figma design and development experience
• Familiarity with web crawling and scraping approaches, including structured content extraction, normalization, and change detection
• Experience building internal tools, dashboards, or workflow systems for customer-facing, revenue, or operations teams
Company:
Contentful offers tools for creating, personalizing, and optimizing digital content across various channels. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Berlin, DEU, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.