Principal Engineer

• Lead the architectural design and delivery of scalable full-stack systems, ensuring alignment with long-term business and technical goals • Define and evolve backend and front end services and architectures with a focus on clean APIs, high availability, observability, security, compliance and and performance • Drive the technical direction for frontend experiences, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and superior operational visibility • Architect complex workflow and orchestration logic, establishing patterns for AI-human coordination, policy enforcement, and auditability • Oversee the integration of enterprise-scale systems and data sources, ensuring robust end-to-end workflows, including policies, resiliency, SLAs, and auditability • Set the standard for production excellence through advanced testing strategies, CI/CD evolution, and proactive operational monitoring • Partner with product, AI, and design leaders to translate high-level requirements into strategic technical roadmaps and robust solutions • Mentor senior engineers, lead technical reviews, and continuously elevate the engineering culture, developer experience, and system maintainability • What Will Make You Successful • 10+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a proven track record of architecting and operating large-scale production applications • Deep experience building and securing enterprise-grade applications, ideally in highly regulated environments • Expert-level backend development skills (e.g., Python, Node.js/TypeScript) and experience designing distributed systems • Advanced experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React with TypeScript) and building complex, stateful web applications • Mastery of API design and database modeling with relational databases (e.g., Postgres) at scale • Strong track record of technical leadership, including mentoring engineers and driving architectural decisions across teams • Experience operating and optimizing mission-critical applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) • Exceptional ability to navigate ambiguity and take ownership of strategic technical initiatives in a fast-paced environment • Experience architecting AI-enabled enterprise products or ML-powered systems • Expert-level knowledge of workflow orchestration, state machines, or event-driven architectures • Experience with platform engineering, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) • Deep understanding of enterprise security and compliance requirements (SSO, RBAC, SOC2, etc.) • Experience working in regulated or security-conscious environments • Passion for fostering a culture of technical excellence and pragmatic innovation