Principal Software Development Engineer, Backend

About the role

A senior technical role guiding backend architecture for a home touring and offer platform, working across several engineering teams and partners in product and data science.

What you will do

• Set long term technical direction and architecture for cloud native backend platforms and services
• Lead design of high throughput, low latency APIs, data pipelines and platform capabilities
• Tackle the hardest technical problems, set engineering standards and reduce risk through prototyping
• Work with product, data and machine learning leaders to turn business goals into technical roadmaps
• Coach senior engineers and tech leads on reliability, performance, testing and incident response
• Shape platform and data governance across the domain

What they look for

• Experience owning backend architecture in a distributed, cloud native environment
• Track record of leading and mentoring engineers across multiple teams
• Skill at framing ambiguous problems and making high impact design decisions
• Ability to influence without direct authority and build strong relationships
• Background with third party integrations and multiple programming languages