Principal Engineer

The Role

We are seeking an exceptional Principal Engineer to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of complex, high-impact engineering solutions. In this role, you will influence technical direction across teams, drive best practices, and mentor engineers at all levels. Ideal candidates are strategic thinkers, highly technical, strong collaborators, and thrive in environments focused on innovation, learning, and technical excellence.

What You'll do

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and high-performance software solutions.
• Apply advanced concepts, patterns, and best practices in object-oriented software design and distributed systems.
• Influence and evolve the organization’s technology strategy and architecture.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to solve highly complex technical challenges.
• Research, evaluate, and introduce new technologies to modernize and optimize our tech stack.
• Provide deep technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to engineers across multiple teams.
• Manage and prioritize multiple initiatives while ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Partner with product owners and engineering leaders to define technical direction, new features, and long-term roadmap.
• Conduct and lead code and architecture reviews to ensure alignment with standards, patterns, and strategic goals.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies (planning, grooming, demos, retrospectives).
• Drive root-cause analysis and lead rapid resolution of production issues and incidents.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architectural diagrams, design specs, and implementation guides.
• Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Take technical ownership of the most challenging and critical engineering initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field preferred.
• Strong experience designing and implementing relational database solutions.
• Knowledge of application servers.
• Expertise in writing optimized and scalable database queries.
• Experience architecting and developing enterprise-grade web applications.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively as a senior technical leader within engineering teams.

Technical Stack

• .NET Core
• .NET WCF
• SQL Services architecture
• API