Principal Software Engineer Lead

About This Role

Serve as a hands-on technical lead for a cross-functional pod, defining technical direction and architectural decisions while mentoring engineers and shipping high-impact features for global customers.

Responsibilities

• Own the pod’s technical strategy: clarify domain boundaries, define target architecture, and evolve systems using DDD
• Design and 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 and 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
• Deliver the pod’s v1/v2 services with measurable SLOs and robust dashboards
• Cut lead time and incident rates through standards, tooling, and runbooks

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

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with increasing scope; 3+ years leading delivery/architecture in agile product teams.

Nice to Have

• 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

Skills

* Required skills