Principal Engineer

About the role

The Principal Engineer will provide technical leadership and architectural direction for the company's AI-powered SaaS platform, driving the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing software solutions. Partner with engineering, product, and executive leadership to solve complex technical challenges, mentor development teams, and establish engineering best practices that support innovation and long-term business growth.

Responsibilities

• Own technical accountability for systems and products, including scalability, resiliency, uptime, architectural decisions, and overall quality.
• Drive innovation and improvement by conducting proofs of concept, championing engineering-led initiatives, and advocating for better architectures and technology choices.
• Shape technical direction by leading and influencing design decisions across teams, ensuring alignment with standards, best practices, and long-term scalability.
• Model technical excellence by delivering optimized, efficient, and refactorable software, while continuing to contribute through coding and high-impact reviews.
• Influence beyond the team by championing technical themes across the company and guiding engineering practices in multiple teams and business units.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of professional experience building high-performance, reliable systems in a complex, multi-tiered and distributed environment.
• Design and implement services in a variety of programming languages including Node.js and Golang.
• Successful deployment of production code at scale.
• Proven track record of writing maintainable code which includes unit tests, readable code, and decent implementations of design patterns.
• Expertise with learning new technologies and familiarity with our tech stack: JavaScript, Node.js, Go, React.js, ElasticSearch, NSQ, GraphQL, and Postgres.

Pay

The annual salary for this position ranges from $200,000 to $230,000, determined based on skills and experience comparable to the job requirements.

Benefits

• Incentive compensation
• Health benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave and benefits
• Other employee perks and benefits