Principal Software Engineer (Team Lead)
About The Position
We’re hiring a Principal Software Engineer to serve as the hands-on technical lead for a new cross-functional pod (engineering, product, UX, architecture, and developer enablement). You’ll set technical direction, own key architectural decisions, and mentor senior/staff engineers while shipping high-impact features for global customers. This is a broad, product-focused role spanning services, APIs, data, and UI—ideal for a systems thinker who enjoys building durable platforms and customer-visible value. You won’t manage people; you’ll lead through architecture, code, influence, and outcomes.
Requirements
- 8+ years in software engineering with increasing scope; 3+ years leading delivery/architecture in agile product teams.
- Proven experience building microservices at scale in .NET Core on a major cloud (AWS preferred).
- Strong systems thinking: domain modeling, API design, data consistency, performance, resilience, and security basics (OWASP).
- Track record improving CI/CD, test automation, and operability (SLOs, on-call readiness, incident reduction).
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills; ability to align diverse stakeholders and elevate engineering standards.
Nice To Haves
- Multi-region/DR patterns, zero-downtime migrations, chaos testing.
- Event-driven architectures with Kafka; idempotency/outbox patterns.
- Observability at scale (OpenTelemetry) and cost/performance optimization.
- Experience with search platforms (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) or analytics pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Own the pod’s technical strategy: clarify domain boundaries, define target architecture, and evolve systems using DDD.
- Design & build cloud-native microservices in .NET (Core) on Kubernetes (AWS), with clean contracts and strong observability.
- Ship end-to-end features across API, data, and front end (React/Angular) with a focus on performance, accessibility, and UX quality.
- Raise the bar on operability: SLOs, dashboards, alerting, runbooks; drive reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Champion CI/CD and quality: automated tests (unit/integration/e2e), progressive delivery (blue/green, canary), IaC.
- Mentor & multiply: coach senior/staff engineers, run design reviews, steward coding standards and “golden paths.”
- Partner cross-functionally with Product/UX/SRE/Security and adjacent pods to deliver cohesive solutions and clear SLAs.
- Make trade-offs explicit: communicate risks, options, and impact to technical and executive audiences.
Benefits
- In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan as well as comprehensive benefits.
- For more information on benefits, please reach out to the recruiter assigned to the role.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
