Principal Architect

Responsibilities:

Technology Architecture and Stack

• Define and implement the company's technical vision and roadmap in collaboration with the founding team.
• Design scalable, robust, and secure systems to support rapid growth and innovation.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, tools, and platforms to meet business needs.

Team Building & Leadership

• Recruit, mentor, and lead a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, creativity, and excellence.
• Promote an agile and iterative development process, balancing speed with quality.
• Provide technical guidance and career development opportunities for team members.

Product Development

• Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate ideas into technical solutions.
• Drive the end-to-end development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and maintenance.
• Ensure timely delivery of features and maintain a high-quality codebase.

Operational Excellence

• Implement best practices for coding, testing, deployment, and system monitoring.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability of systems and processes.
• Manage technical debt and balance short-term deliverables with long-term sustainability.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Act as a thought partner to the senior leaders, contributing to overall company strategy and decision-making.
• Represent the engineering perspective in cross-functional discussions and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Experience and Education

• 5+ years of hands-on B2B SaaS software development experience, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or management role.
• Startup experience is highly desirable.
• Deep experience with all forms of agile development processes
• Engineering degree is preferred since this is an engineering-focused product
• Has experience working directly with senior leadership and knowing when and how to manage expectations with scope, schedule, cost

Technical Expertise

• Deep understanding of modern programming languages, frameworks, and cloud technologies especially Azure.
• Hands-on experience with architecture and full-stack development is a requirement.
• Hands-on proficiency in .NET (back-end microservices), SQL databases, and Python or appropriate equivalents is required.
• Hands-on proficiency in Angular (or equivalent modern front-end framework) is required.

Agentic AI Integrations: Experience building Agentic AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry APIs including agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, function/tool calling, and multi-agent patterns.

AI-Assisted Coding Expertise: Demonstrated daily use of AI-assisted coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or OpenAI Codex to accelerate development velocity and improve code quality.

Project Management Skills

• Proven track record of running software engineering projects for leading B2B SaaS products that are utilized by Fortune 500 companies
• Works closely with the development team members to understand and minimize technical debt without sacrificing velocity

Result-Oriented

• Strong project management skills with a focus on delivering results in fast-paced environments.
• Believes in development/engineering processes that are pragmatic and tuned to achieve the desired business objectives

Problem-Solver

• Demonstrated ability to tackle complex technical challenges with innovative solutions.

Passion for Startups

• Eagerness to work in an ambiguous, evolving environment and contribute beyond the technical domain in all aspects of the company
• Be vested in the success of the company and do-what-it-takes attitude