AHEAD - Principal Engineer, Software Engineering
Requirements
• 8+ years building and operating software systems, with 10+ years preferred and a track record of leading significant work end to end. • Principal-level engineering judgment. You can simplify complex problems, recognize weak solutions, explain tradeoffs clearly, and make decisions that hold up in production. • An AIDLC-first mindset and demonstrated fluency with AI development tools or coding agents, paired with the discipline to inspect, test, secure, and own everything you ship. • Strong experience with modern web and service development, especially Next.js, JavaScript or TypeScript, and Golang. • Strong experience with data engineering and relational systems, including dbt, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, schema design, query performance, migrations, data quality, and data integrity. • Stack-agnostic adaptability. Equivalent experience with Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Elixir, Kotlin, or other modern languages and frameworks is welcome. • A strong foundation in software architecture and the practices that keep systems reliable, including secure development, automated testing, continuous integration, deployment automation, observability, and containerization. • Clear, direct communication. You can express technical intent precisely to engineers, stakeholders, and the AI tools you work with. • The instincts of a technical leader: you influence through credibility, mentor others, raise the level of the people around you, and help teams deliver with accountability.
Responsibilities
• Own complex initiatives end to end, from understanding the user’s need and business outcome through architecture, delivery, production support, and continuous improvement. • Design and build pragmatic, secure, and scalable solutions across Next.js applications, JavaScript services, Golang services, APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and integrations, data pipelines, and platform integrations. • Use AI tools and coding agents to accelerate delivery, then review, test, secure, and harden everything you ship. • Engage across the full development lifecycle: problem framing, analysis, design, implementation, integration, testing, deployment, observability, debugging, and support. • Lead architecture reviews and code reviews, establish engineering standards, and raise the bar on quality, security, reliability, and maintainability. • Partner directly with product, design, data, security, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to turn ambiguous needs into executable plans. • Identify and reduce technical risk, including fragile integrations, poor data quality, unclear ownership, security gaps, operational blind spots, and unsustainable technical debt. • Mentor engineers, shape the engineering roadmap, and help define how AHEAD builds and operates software.
Benefits
• Help define how a modern engineering organization applies AI across the software development lifecycle while maintaining a high bar for security, quality, and reliability. • Influence architecture, engineering standards, and technical strategy beyond a single project or team. • Competitive salary, benefits, and an environment where sustainable, effective work matters. • $180,000 - $200,000 a year • Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. • We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details. • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. • If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at [email protected]. • You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out. • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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