Principal Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

The Principal Software Engineer leads our largest, most complex projects - making sure they meet a high bar for performance, scalability, and reliability. You'll work closely with other technical leaders, product managers, and cross-functional teams to keep solutions aligned with both business goals and technical realities.

What you'll do

• Design and deploy scalable, high-performance solutions across the stack (backend, frontend, and beyond), and establish the architectural standards for reliability
• Help build our AI-native platform - designing agentic workflows that plan, call tools, and run multi-step tasks in production, not just as prototypes
• Stay close to customers - understand their real workflows, sit with their hardest problems, and carry that context back into the architecture and roadmap
• Lead and mentor engineers across disciplines, promoting best practices in coding, testing, and deployment
• Partner with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define requirements and deliver integrated solutions that meet both business and technical needs

What you need

• 14–25 yrs of experience
• Node.js
• SQL
• REST APIs
• Python
• Java
• AWS
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA

Good to have

• Microservices
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• NoSQL
• LLMs
• GCP