Topgolf is on the hunt for a forward-thinking Senior Solution Architect ready to tee up the next generation of tech across our venue systems, mobile app, and booking platform. This role blends high-level architectural strategy with hands-on implementation, bringing innovative, scalable, and reliable software solutions to life. You’ll play a key role in shaping the systems that make Topgolf’s interactive, high-energy experiences seamless and unforgettable for both players and associates.

The Senior Solution Architect will lead the design of custom software solutions tailored to Topgolf’s unique business needs. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver conceptual and low-level designs, data models, API specifications, and scalable software architectures. The architect will ensure adherence to best practices in software design and actively contribute to coding and implementation to support Topgolf’s venue systems, mobile app, and booking website.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner to business and product leadership, ensuring that architectural decisions directly support Topgolf’s business goals, scalability needs, and technical innovation roadmap.
• Develop conceptual and low-level designs for custom applications spanning Topgolf Venue Systems, Mobile App, and Booking website.
• Conduct design reviews and validate implemented solutions to meet scalability, security, and performance standards.
• Actively participate in hands-on implementation of designed solutions, ensuring alignment with architectural vision.
• Design and maintain comprehensive data models for relational and document databases to support business requirements.
• Define and document API specifications to enable seamless integration across systems and platforms.
• Define and guide the architectural vision by selecting and promoting appropriate programming paradigms (e.g., object-oriented for modular design, functional for stateless services, declarative for configuration-driven systems) to support scalable, resilient, and maintainable enterprise-wide solutions.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices in software architecture and coding standards.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 15+ years of experience in software architecture or application design, with a focus on custom systems.
• Proven hands-on experience implementing architectural designs in production environments.
• Deep understanding of scalable software design principles and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement microservices-based architectures across multiple teams/systems.
• Proven experience implementing enterprise-grade solutions using diverse programming paradigms—applying object-oriented design with languages like Go, Java, etc., functional programming with Scala or Kotlin, and declarative approaches—to deliver scalable microservices, resilient cloud infrastructure, and policy-driven architectures.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing distributed applications with robust messaging architectures using RabbitMQ or similar message brokers, ensuring reliable, decoupled communication patterns, fault tolerance, and scalability across microservices ecosystems.
• Skilled in Python and scripting languages (Bash, JavaScript, PowerShell) for backend development, automation, and API integration.
• Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and document databases (e.g., MongoDB, CouchDB).
• Proficiency in creating data models and API specifications (e.g., OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, REST, GraphQL).
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the hospitality or entertainment industry with a focus on custom customer-facing applications.
• Experience with performance optimization and security best practices for customer-facing applications.

ADA

The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.

EEO Statement

Topgolf is a global sports and entertainment community and is committed to equal opportunity and is firmly committed to preventing discrimination and harassment, including sexual misconduct, based on legally protected diversity characteristics (such as race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family status, citizenship, genetic information and veteran status) in its application and hiring processes and in its employment decisions. As an affirmative action employer, Topgolf also takes steps to prevent retaliation and to create a respectful, equitable and inclusive environment for our Guests, Associates, business partners, vendors, and the communities we serve.

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