Staff/Principal Engineer

Lead the technical architecture and long-term engineering strategy for modern backend platforms built with Node.js, TypeScript, and cloud-native technologies.

Design, develop, review, and optimize production-ready code while balancing hands-on development with architectural leadership.

Establish engineering best practices, including code quality standards, testing strategies, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement processes.

Drive the adoption of AI-powered engineering workflows, including LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, automation, and productivity-enhancing developer tools.

Oversee system scalability, reliability, infrastructure modernization, and cloud platform evolution in collaboration with DevOps teams.

Partner closely with Product leaders to translate business goals into technical solutions, prioritize initiatives, and communicate architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Mentor engineers, guide technical decision-making, proactively address technical debt, and foster a culture of engineering excellence across distributed teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant responsibility for architecture, technical leadership, and software delivery.

• Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Express, distributed systems, API development, and backend performance optimization.

• Solid Python knowledge with experience supporting automation layers and cross-platform integrations.

• Proven experience leading engineering teams, driving architectural decisions, coordinating technical execution, and improving development processes.

• Hands-on experience designing scalable cloud-based applications and working with modern DevOps practices, containerization, Infrastructure as Code, and AWS environments.

• Familiarity with AI technologies such as LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, AI development tools, or intelligent automation is highly desirable.

• Experience with technologies such as Redis, BullMQ, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Loki, or similar observability and messaging platforms is a plus.

• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, remote engineering environments.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment with flexible working hours.

• High-impact leadership role with ownership of engineering architecture and technical strategy.

• Professional development budget for certifications, learning, and technical tools.

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI-powered SaaS products and modern cloud technologies.

• Collaborative, high-performance engineering culture focused on innovation, autonomy, and continuous improvement.