Fama Technologies - Principal Software Engineer

• Organizational Technical Leadership • Demonstrated experience defining technical strategy across multiple teams or product domains. • Proven ability to influence engineering organizations through technical leadership rather than organizational authority. • Experience driving large-scale architectural initiatives from concept through long-term production ownership. • Strong record of simplifying complex technical systems while improving engineering velocity and operational reliability. • Demonstrated success mentoring Staff, Senior, and emerging technical leaders. • Technical Expertise • Technical Expertise • Deep expertise designing and operating highly scalable distributed systems and domain-oriented microservice architectures. • Extensive experience with cloud-native platforms, infrastructure automation, and modern DevOps practices. • Exceptional understanding of production operations, observability, monitoring, incident response, and system reliability. • Strong architectural judgment across performance, security, maintainability, scalability, resilience, and cost optimization. • Experience defining engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and shared platform capabilities. • AI-Driven Engineering • Extensive experience using AI agents as a core part of software architecture, design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operational analysis. • Demonstrated experience designing, building, and deploying AI agents or agentic workflows that improve engineering productivity or deliver customer-facing capabilities. • Strong understanding of prompt engineering, context management, tool orchestration, evaluation frameworks, retrieval strategies, and AI system architecture. • Experience establishing engineering standards and best practices for AI-assisted software development. • Exceptional engineering judgment to validate, refine, and assume complete accountability for AI-generated designs, code, documentation, and operational decisions. • Ability to identify where AI creates strategic advantage and where traditional engineering approaches remain the better solution. • Collaboration & Leadership • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership. • Proven ability to build alignment across engineering, product management, operations, and business teams. • Passion for developing engineers through mentorship, architectural guidance, and technical coaching. • Comfortable operating with ambiguity while providing clarity and direction for others. • Continuous learner who actively evaluates and adopts emerging engineering practices, AI technologies, and organizational improvements. • 10+ years of experience building backend applications with Python and FastAPI or similar framework. • Expert knowledge of designing and implementing REST APIs and distributed microservice architectures. • 5+ years architecting, deploying, and operating cloud-native applications using AWS serverless technologies and related cloud infrastructure. • Demonstrated experience defining technical direction across multiple engineering teams or major platform initiatives. • Proven ability to validate, refine, and take full ownership of AI-generated designs, code, tests, documentation, and architectural decisions before production deployment. • Demonstrated experience working in an AI-first engineering environment where AI agents are a standard part of daily software development. • Experience designing, building, and integrating AI agents or agentic workflows that automate engineering processes or power customer-facing products. • Strong understanding of AI system architecture, prompt engineering, tool orchestration, context management, evaluation techniques, and operational governance. • Experience developing front-end applications using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, or comparable technologies. • Remote first - Flexible work environment. • Our flexible workplace comes with vacation days, sick days, volunteer time off, and paid parental leave. • Great Financial Incentives. competitive compensation packages, equity, and generous total rewards plans. • Employees can access Wellness Programs and more for FREE. • We believe that becoming an increasingly diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us a more successful and resilient organization. We embrace equal opportunity for all applicants and seek to foster and preserve a culture of belonging for our employees. We recognize and appreciate that the more inclusive we are, the better we will function as a team. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or family status, disability, military veteran status, and any other status or background.