Principal Software Engineer & Architect

Safety Chain • Grapevine, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

SafetyChain is building the next generation of enterprise software for the supply chain—systems that actually help operators think, decide, and act in real time. We’re assembling a senior engineering group in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex to build this platform from the ground up using a modern, AI-first development environment.

SafetyChain is a rapidly scaling B2B SaaS provider revolutionizing plant management for Food and Beverage manufacturers by improving yield, maximizing productivity, and ensuring compliance. Our impressive client base includes renowned brands like Albertsons, Clif Bar, Tyson Foods, and Whole Foods. Join a dynamic, collaborative team driven by innovation, agility, and rapid growth.

Requirements

• 8+ years building modern web applications or distributed systems (enterprise experience strongly preferred).
• Strong background in at least one of: TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Go, Java, or C#.
• Experience with multiple data storage models—document, columnar, relational—and clear reasoning about tradeoffs.
• Ability to design and debug systems that operate at real-world scale and complexity.
• A practical mindset: you don’t reinvent authentication, messaging, or streaming engines unless there’s a damned good reason.
• Comfort with hybrid work and in-office collaboration for high-context problem-solving.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs, data pipelines, or backend primitives.
• Strong architectural intuition around distributed systems, eventing, and state management.
• Ability to design clean contracts between backend and frontend.
• Deep understanding of frontend state, caching, offline behavior, and storage semantics.
• Experience building rich, responsive interfaces for enterprise or operational users.
• Ability to work with cross-platform UI scaffolding for web, tablet, and desktop environments.
• Allergic to cargo-cult engineering and prefer reasoning from first principles.
• Default to outcome-based decisions instead of theoretical purity.
• Do not chase platform work for its own sake—platforms should emerge from repeated need.
• Care about simplicity, legibility, and solving the right problem.
• Energized by a team of peers who challenge each other and move fast.

Nice To Haves

• TypeScript, Node or Deno expertise

Responsibilities

• Design and build the foundations of SafetyChain’s next-gen platform—enterprise-grade, AI-enabled, and capable of supporting a wide range of operational workflows across the food & beverage supply chain.
• Build high-performance services and applications in an end-to-end TypeScript environment (Deno backend + unified front-end framework).
• Work in a monorepo with strong engineering conventions and automated tooling to accelerate iteration.
• Use AI-driven developer workflows (code generation, scaffolding, automated tests, modeling, inference-based data mapping, etc.) to dramatically speed up delivery.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions—knowing when to build, when to buy, and when to rely on the surrounding ecosystem.
• Design systems where platforms emerge from real demand rather than speculative abstraction.
• Contribute to an “office-first when collaboration matters” culture that values high-bandwidth problem solving and clear ownership.
• Build enterprise-scale features with attention to reliability, data semantics, and real-world operational constraints.
• Partner closely with Product and AI/ML teams to translate domain complexity into clean, scalable systems.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed