Senior Principal Engineer
virtual vocationsDenver (CO)
Senior Principal Engineer
Posted yesterday
virtual vocationsDenver (CO)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
Taking technical leadership of strategic projects assigned by the CTO, the full-time Senior Principal Engineer will work remotely to design, deliver, and oversee complex systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring other engineers.
Key responsibilities:
Serve as technical lead on high-priority projects, ensuring successful design and delivery across multiple teams
Architect scalable systems and drive improvements to maintain adaptability in response to business and technology changes
Act as a senior technical counterpart to enterprise customers and internal stakeholders, facilitating cross-team discussions to resolve dependencies
Required qualifications:
15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years at a principal level leading complex technical initiatives
Deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and API design with OpenAPI
Proven experience designing distributed systems and data pipelines on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
Strong judgment on security, reliability, and operability, with clear technical writing skills
Ability to influence stakeholders and explain technical tradeoffs in business terms
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