Principal Software Engineer

Position Overview:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical future of our SaaS platform. 

This is more than a hands-on coding role (though you’ll do plenty of that); it’s an opportunity to lead from the front: setting engineering direction, influencing architecture at scale, and mentoring the next generation of technical leaders. You’ll architect secure, scalable, serverless solutions, primarily in TypeScript and AWS and help drive the modernization of our core systems. 

You’ll also be instrumental in embedding AI as a core capability across our products. From steering design decisions to mentoring teams on responsible AI use, you'll help us unlock new possibilities while upholding trust, transparency, and ethical standards. 

If you thrive at the intersection of technical depth, strategic influence, and emerging technology, this is your chance to make a company-wide impact. 

Key Responsibilities

• Shape engineering strategy with broad organizational impact, influencing long-term architectural direction across multiple teams and products. 
• Drive platform evolution, identifying common pain points and leading scalable, reusable solutions across systems. 
• Engage in deep architectural discussions, evaluating trade-offs and optimizing for security, performance, and maintainability. 
• Shape and influence AI-related design decisions, ensuring alignment with product goals and ethical, effective use. 
• Architect end-to-end AI-enabled systems with embedded governance, monitoring, and adaptability to regulatory change. 
• Educate teams on foundational AI concepts, model capabilities, prompt engineering, and responsible AI practices. 
• Act as a thought leader in the AI space, helping the organization mature its understanding and adoption of AI-driven technologies. 
• Communicate complex technical topics clearly across technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Motivate, mentor, and inspire engineers across teams, fostering a culture of high performance, technical curiosity, and continuous improvement. 
• Regularly demo work, share knowledge across the department, and drive a culture of collaboration. 

Required Experience/Skills

• 15+ years of professional experience delivering secure applications in an agile environment. 
• Demonstrated understanding of AI concepts, including model behavior, prompt optimization, and AI governance. 
• Experience designing or integrating AI-powered systems with transparency, monitoring, and regulatory readiness in mind. 
• Comfort mentoring others in AI-related best practices and helping shape organizational knowledge in this space. 
• Ideal candidates will be able to demonstrate exceptionally strong technical, commercial, communication and leadership skills, and be driven, resourceful, and not intimidated by the significant challenges around integration of diverse products on disparate technology stacks. 
• Strong ability to architect with AWS using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation. 
• Strong understanding of distributed data storages (e.g. Aurora, DynamoDB, S3) and how to build a scalable platform using them. 
• Strong understanding of Event Driven Architecture and its applications. 
• Passion for optimizing software delivery, automating routine tasks, and building secure and resilient platforms. 
• Proficiency in developing RESTful APIs using NodeJS and/or TypeScript in Open API specifications, visually stunning user interfaces using Angular/React. 
• Experience working with Docker in development. 
• Experience on SQL databases and optimizations. 
• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or related field.