Principal Full Stack Engineer

Accountabilities

Technical Architecture and Direction: Own the architecture and technical direction of core platform domains, establishing scalable modular boundaries, event-driven workflows, and foundations for AI-enabled capabilities.
Hands-on Engineering: Dedicate approximately 60–80% of your time to designing, coding, reviewing, debugging, and pairing on complex technical challenges across Laravel, PHP, Next.js, and cloud environments.
Cross-Team Technical Leadership: Work across multiple product squads to resolve complex engineering problems, lead technical discovery, and deliver high-impact initiatives that span teams and systems.
Engineering Standards: Define, document, and promote architectural principles, coding standards, and development patterns that improve system reliability, maintainability, security, and observability.
Quality Engineering and Delivery: Champion shift-left testing, robust test strategies, CI/CD improvements, regression control, and production monitoring to ensure consistent software quality and reliable releases.
Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Guide senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing sessions, and constructive feedback, empowering them to take ownership of systems and technical decisions.
Innovation and AI Integration: Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies, including generative AI workflows, AI agents, data pipelines, and tools such as Vertex AI, helping teams adopt practical solutions that enhance product capabilities.
Strategic Collaboration: Partner with engineering leadership and technical leads on long-term architecture, roadmap planning, estimation, prioritization, and technical trade-offs while ensuring engineering health remains aligned with business objectives.
Platform Evolution: Support architectural improvements involving event-driven systems, distributed workflows, cloud infrastructure, and future platform capabilities, including AI readiness and multi-cloud development.
Requirements
Professional Experience: At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including experience in a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or Software Architect role within a SaaS environment.
Backend Development: Deep expertise in Laravel 10+, PHP 8+, or comparable backend technologies, with strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, relational databases, SQL, caching, and backend system design.
Frontend Engineering: Strong experience with React and modern frontend architecture, ideally including Next.js and the ability to design maintainable, scalable user-facing applications.
Cloud Infrastructure: Proven experience building and operating secure, scalable cloud-native systems, with AWS required and exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) highly desirable.
Architecture and Distributed Systems: Familiarity with event-driven architectures, modular system design, containerized environments, Kubernetes/EKS, asynchronous workflows, and distributed system principles.
Software Quality and Delivery: Deep understanding of testing strategies, automated validation, CI/CD pipelines, production observability, performance optimization, and regression prevention.
AI-Driven Development: Experience using AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot or Gemini, automating development workflows, and improving feature delivery through test generation, scaffolding, and code assistance.
AI-Augmented Products: Familiarity with integrating large language model APIs, prompt design, generative AI workflows, or AI agent architectures. Experience coaching other engineers in AI-assisted development is an advantage.
Additional Technical Strengths: Knowledge of analytics platforms such as Looker or BigQuery, data pipelines, machine learning workflows, message queues such as AWS SQS or Kafka, and distributed-system performance tuning is beneficial.
Leadership and Communication: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, excellent written and verbal communication, and the ability to influence technical decisions without relying on formal management authority.
Product and Business Mindset: A proactive, adaptable, and customer-focused approach, with the ability to translate product goals into sound technical decisions, manage ambiguity, document decisions clearly, and collaborate across disciplines.
Benefits
Fully Remote Work: Flexibility to work remotely, with an emphasis on sustainable productivity and managing energy rather than fixed hours.
Flexible Working Arrangements: Greater autonomy in organizing your schedule and balancing professional responsibilities.
Professional Development: Access to online learning platforms and a dedicated budget for training and career growth.
Collaborative Culture: A supportive, low-silo environment that encourages knowledge sharing, technical experimentation, and cross-team collaboration.
Team Engagement: Opportunities to participate in team lunches, social events, and activities that encourage creativity and connection.
Health Insurance: Health coverage as part of the benefits package.
Leave Benefits: Employee leave provisions to support personal time and work-life balance.
Provident Fund: Access to applicable provident fund benefits.
Gratuity: Gratuity benefits in accordance with applicable employment terms and regulations.
Career Impact: The opportunity to influence platform architecture, mentor engineers, and shape the technical foundations of an internationally used SaaS product.
Compensation: Salary details were not specified in the original listing and can be confirmed during the recruitment process.