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# Software Architect at PDI Technologies

- **Company:** PDI Technologies
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/pditechnologies/4b2c4467-4296-4340-9373-b137008e5233

## Job description

At PDI Technologies, we empower some of the world's leading convenience retail and petroleum brands with cutting-edge technology solutions that drive growth and operational efficiency. By “Connecting Convenience” across the globe, we empower businesses to increase productivity, make more informed decisions, and engage faster with customers through loyalty programs, shopper insights, and unmatched real-time market intelligence via mobile applications, such as GasBuddy.  We’re a global team committed to excellence, collaboration, and driving real impact. Explore our opportunities and become part of a company that values diversity, integrity, and growth.

## What You'll Do

Design and Build

- Own application architecture across services, APIs, identity, data access, and integrations.
- Write production code regularly across back-end services, APIs, and front-end applications.
- Build new services and features from initial design through deployment and production support.
- Design scalable, reliable, secure, and multi-tenant applications.
- Create prototypes and proofs of concept, then turn the strongest ideas into production-ready solutions.
- Help modernize legacy applications toward cloud-native architectures while maintaining ongoing product delivery.

Build AI into the Product

- Develop AI-powered capabilities using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool calling, and agents.
- Design APIs and application capabilities that can be securely used by AI agents, including through protocols such as MCP.
- Implement evaluation, guardrails, and cost monitoring to ensure AI features are reliable, safe, and sustainable in production.
- Help determine where AI adds meaningful value and where traditional software solutions are the better approach.

Raise the Engineering Bar

- Review code, pair with engineers, and help solve complex technical problems.
- Establish strong engineering practices around automated testing, observability, security, performance, and resilience.
- Use modern AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality.
- Create architecture decision records and reference implementations that engineering teams can put into practice.
- Partner closely with Product, UX, QA, Security, and DevOps to turn business goals into scalable technical solutions.

## What We're Looking For

- 8+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years in an architect, technical lead, or senior engineering role with ownership of system design.
- Strong hands-on development skills and recent experience contributing production code.
- Experience designing and operating multi-tenant SaaS or enterprise applications.
- Experience building AI-powered features using LLMs, ideally including RAG, agents, tool/function calling, or structured outputs.
- Deep expertise in at least one modern development language such as C#/.NET, Java, TypeScript, or Python, with working knowledge of another.
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React or Angular.Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and API design.
- Experience with Azure or AWS, containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless architectures.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL data design, messaging platforms such as Kafka or Service Bus, and caching strategies.
- Understanding of modern identity and application security, including OAuth 2.0/OIDC, RBAC, OWASP practices, and secure handling of data used with AI models.
- Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, automated testing, and performance optimization.

## How You Work

You’re an architect who likes to stay close to the technology. You can move from an architecture discussion to a pull request, explain complex technical trade-offs to both engineers and business partners, and help teams turn good ideas into working software.

You’re also comfortable using AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools as part of your everyday engineering workflow, while knowing when AI is useful and when a simpler deterministic solution is the better choice.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with multi-agent orchestration or AI evaluation pipelines.
- Experience with fine-tuning or open-weight/smaller language models.
- Experience modernizing legacy or acquired products into a more unified platform.
- Experience working in PCI DSS, SOC 2, or GDPR environments.
- Background in retail, payments, loyalty, or supply chain software.
- Relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, Azure AI Engineer, or AWS Solutions Architect.

PDI is committed to offering a well-rounded benefits program, designed to support and care for you, and your family throughout your life and career.  This includes a competitive salary, market-competitive benefits, and a quarterly perks program. We encourage a good work-life balance with ample time off [time away] and, where appropriate, hybrid working arrangements.  Employees have access to continuous learning, professional certifications, and leadership development opportunities. Our global culture fosters diversity, inclusion, and values authenticity, trust, curiosity, and diversity of thought, ensuring a supportive environment for all.

## About PDI Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: PDI Technologies provides enterprise software and payments solutions that power the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale ecosystem globally.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Luminate Capital in 2015, with strategic investment from TA Associates)
- **Headquarters**: Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
- **Founded**: 1983
- **Founders**: Greg Gilkerson

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Convenience retail & petroleum wholesale software, payments, data analytics, and cybersecurity.
- Target customers: B2B – fuel wholesalers, convenience store chains, and petroleum retailers of all sizes (SMB to enterprise).
- Mission or purpose statement: “Connecting Convenience” – helping businesses modernize operations, converge systems, and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

## Products & Services
- **PDI Enterprise (ERP)**: Comprehensive enterprise resource planning for convenience retail and petroleum wholesale, covering accounting, inventory, supply chain, and back-office operations.
- **PDI Logistics**: Fuel supply chain management and distribution optimization.
- **PDI Loyalty & Marketing Cloud**: Customer loyalty programs, coalition marketing, and real-time promotions.
- **PDI Payments**: Secure payment processing solutions for in-store and fuel transactions.
- **PDI Security & Cybersecurity**: Managed security services and data protection for retail networks.
- **PDI Analytics Cloud**: Data and insight solutions for business intelligence and consumer behavior analysis.
- **PDIQ (AI Platform)**: Embedded AI into trusted workflows to accelerate decision-making and innovation.
- **Fuel Pricing Software**: Dynamic pricing and competitor analysis for fuel retailers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately $112 M (LinkedIn estimate) – or **Total Funding**: Not disclosed beyond early private equity rounds (Luminate Capital, TA Associates).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Luminate Capital (acquirer in 2015), TA Associates (growth investment in 2017).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 1,419 employees (+1.0% YoY) per LinkedIn; another source (Built In) reports 1,905 total employees – conflicting reports.
  - Operates in 7 countries (including Austria, Thailand, Slovakia, New Zealand, United Kingdom) with workforce across 26 countries.
  - Serves over 200,000 convenience and petroleum wholesale sites in more than 60 countries.
  - Released 2024 ESG Report, highlighting sustainability commitments.

## Competitive Advantages
- **40+ years of domain expertise** in the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale vertical.
- **End-to-end ecosystem**: ERP, logistics, loyalty, payments, analytics, and cybersecurity – all integrated.
- **Large, sticky customer base** with high switching costs due to deep operational integration.
- **AI-first innovation** through the PDIQ platform, embedding intelligence into existing workflows.
- **Global reach** with localized support across North America, EMEA, and APAC.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Automation**: Expanding PDIQ to embed AI across all product lines to improve productivity and decision-making.
- **Sustainability**: Helping customers meet environmental goals while advancing own ESG metrics.
- **Cloud & SaaS Migration**: Continuing to shift legacy on-premise solutions to modern cloud/SaaS platforms.
- **Global Expansion**: Growing presence in Europe, Asia, and other regions outside the core U.S. market.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven environment emphasizing integrity, curiosity, adaptability, courage, collaboration, and accountability.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid and fully remote options available; Alpharetta HQ serves as a central hub.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, health coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, quarterly perks, and flexible work arrangements.
- **Growth**: Continuous learning opportunities, professional certifications, leadership development, and internal mobility.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to building a diverse workforce and fostering an inclusive culture.
- **Engineering Culture**: Tech roles span application development, backend systems, data management, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure; coding challenges may be part of interviews.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn – PDI Technologies](https://linkedin.com/company/pdi-technologies)
2. [PDI Technologies – Our Story](https://pditechnologies.com/our-story/)
3. [PDI Technologies – Careers](https://pditechnologies.com/careers/)
4. [Built In – PDI Technologies](https://builtin.com/company/pdi-technologies)

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