Job DescriptionAbout the role:As a Principal Software Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.
Responsibilities:- Own architecture across product and platform
- Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards
- Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long-term simplicity, maintainability, and performance
- Identify systemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross-team execution
- Introduce new technologies and best practices
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies responsibly pilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable
- Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates
- Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs
- Solve the hardest cross-team problems
- Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges
- Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable
- Help teams debug and resolve high-severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails
- Global cloud and regulated environment leadership
- Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi-region strategy, DR, availability, and operability)
- Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance
- Mentor and coach across the organization
- Mentor engineers across teams; coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment
- Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post-incident reviews, and hands-on design workshops
Requirements:- Technical breadth (multi-stack)
- Ten years of overall experience, with at least five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups
- Strong working knowledge across: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js)
- Ability to move between systems-level architecture and hands-on problem solving, deep where needed, broad by default
- Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals
- Architecture leadership
- Proven success setting architectural direction across multiple teams and making durable technical decisions
- Strong systems design skills: scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity
- Ability to drive alignment, influence roadmaps, and lead through ambiguity with pragmatic tradeoffs
- Global cloud + FedRAMP experience
- Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale (multi-region deployments, DR/BCP, observability)
- Experience supporting FedRAMP/government cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments
- Mentorship and communication
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and influence across engineering, product, and leadership
- Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers across teams, improving quality and raising the technic al bar
- Education:
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
- Master's degree preferred
Desirable:- Experience designing shared services (identity/auth, platform APIs) and driving adoption through developer experience improvements
- Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and platform tooling that improves developer productivity
- Experience leading large-scale modernization of legacy Java/J2EE systems
- Experience in commercial real estate software
What's in it for you?- Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
- Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
- Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
- Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
- Care: Healthcare, Basic Life Insurance, Short and Long-term disability insurance according to the Company's Benefit Plans
Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can't wait to see you at Ciklum.
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