Principal Software Engineer (AI, PHP, Python, React)

NICE • Sandy, UT

21h

About The Position

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in building and evolving Verse's client-facing products and internal platforms that power a premium, white-glove customer experience. You will help shape the technical direction of the product by designing scalable, API-first systems, shipping high-quality production code, and contributing to our conversational AI platform. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in modern cloud environments, thinks in systems, and balances speed with long-term maintainability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
• Strong experience with modern web development: RESTful APIs, relational databases, CI/CD, background jobs, and event-driven systems
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language with solid object-oriented and/or functional design principles
• Hands-on experience with modern backend and frontend technologies such as: Backend: Laravel, Express, Serverless, Python, PHP, TypeScript Frontend: React, modern JavaScript/ES6+
• Strong understanding of software architecture patterns, system design, and best practices for large-scale applications
• Experience building and operating systems on AWS, including services such as: S3, SQS, SNS, SES, Step Functions, RDS, EC2, Kinesis, Lambda
• Familiarity with distributed systems, messaging queues, and asynchronous processing
• Working knowledge of testing strategies, linters, package management, and CI pipelines
• Practical understanding of machine learning concepts and how they apply to real-world products
• Comfortable operating full-stack, from front-end user experiences to backend business logic and database optimization
• Strong judgment when balancing rapid iteration with code quality, scalability, and maintainability
• Ownership mindset with the ability to prioritize work based on impact and business value
• Analytical problem solver with strong critical thinking and technical decision-making skills
• Clear, concise communicator who collaborates effectively across teams
• Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with a bias toward action

Nice To Haves

• Experience with LLMs, messaging, or customer engagement platforms
• Exposure to high-volume data pipelines or real-time systems
• Prior experience influencing technical direction or mentoring other engineers

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to shape product strategy, scope, and technical execution
• Design and build API-first, cloud-native services that integrate with web clients, internal tools, and external partners
• Own projects end-to-end: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Develop and maintain scalable, distributed systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and security
• Contribute to the evolution of our conversational AI platform, including messaging pipelines, integrations, and data flows
• Write clean, testable, well-documented code while raising engineering standards through reviews and technical leadership
• Continuously improve development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across application, database, and infrastructure layers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees