Principal Consultant - Software Engineer

About the role

We work with forward-thinking organizations to design and deliver modern, scalable software solutions. This role is for engineers who have moved beyond being great individual contributors and now amplify their impact through teams, design patterns, strategic guidance, and strong technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead technical direction across complex systems, projects, or client engagements
• Architect scalable, fault-tolerant solutions that solve real business problems
• Work hands-on with modern cloud-native technologies — AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and more
• Design and deliver APIs and service architectures that enable fast, stable delivery and long-term maintainability
• Set and uphold high engineering standards — reliability, testability, performance, and security
• Guide multiple teams through ambiguous technical challenges and trade-offs
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (product, design, business) to align engineering with business needs
• Coach, mentor, and elevate other engineers — sharing knowledge and driving best practices
• Act as a trusted advisor for clients — bringing credibility, clarity, and calm to high-stakes situations
• Identify emerging technologies and evaluate their application in real-world systems
• Occasionally prototype ideas or lead technical spikes to de-risk and accelerate delivery

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated leadership of teams or multiple teams — setting direction, coaching others, and owning outcomes
• Deep experience building and operating distributed systems, microservices, or high-scale platforms
• Expertise in modern cloud environments — AWS, Azure, or GCP — and cloud-native design patterns
• Strong working knowledge of containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Proven experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and service-layer architectures
• Experience with backend languages like Python, Java, Node.js, or .NET — and the ability to pick up new stacks
• Comfort working in agile environments with cross-functional teams
• Consulting mindset: you bring clarity to chaos, ask the right questions, and know how to deliver value
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — you influence through clarity, not control

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• Strong understanding of software reliability engineering (SRE) practices — observability, alerting, incident response
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Copilot, Claude, Cursor)
• Open-source contributions or experience building internal frameworks / libraries
• Prior consulting or pre-sales engineering experience — especially with complex stakeholder environments
• Experience influencing technical roadmaps, org-wide standards, or platform strategy

Skills

• Technical leadership
• Cloud-native architecture
• API design and delivery
• Collaboration and mentoring
• Client-facing experience
• Emerging technology evaluation

Benefits and Other Fun Stuff

• Competitive Salary
• Unlimited PTO
• Best-in-class health/vision/dental benefits
• Generous 401K options
• Paid Parental Leave
• Opportunity to be a key player at a highly reputable, fast-growing consulting firm
• High degree of internal mobility and diverse project opportunities

Pay

The salary range for this position is between $140,000 and $170,000+

Schedule

Full-time

Benefits

• Health/vision/dental benefits
• Generous 401K options
• Paid Parental Leave

Company Culture

We are a fast-growing consulting firm with a reputation for technical excellence and a healthy, supportive culture. Our projects are diverse, our teams are collaborative, and our engineers are trusted to own the outcomes.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Note

No visa sponsorship is available for this position, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer.