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Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer

Coffeee.ioIndia
16 hours ago
Job description

Role- principal Engineer

Location- Bangalore (Hybrid)

Experience- 10-12 years

Employment- Full time

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Principal Engineer with strong technical expertise and

proven experience in engineering leadership. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys being

hands-on with coding while also managing and mentoring a small team. The candidate should

bring a strong startup background, a track record of growth within previous organizations, and

the ability to drive both technical excellence and team alignment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and manage a small engineering team while contributing hands-on to code

development.

  • Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and secure web applications.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical roadmaps, architecture, and

    • execution plans.

  • Drive best practices in software engineering, code quality, performance optimization, and

    • system reliability.

  • Oversee implementation of modern infrastructure, orchestration tools, and database

    • technologies.

  • Provide technical leadership for complex problem-solving and innovation in product

    • development.

  • Balance team management responsibilities with active coding and design contributions.

    • Required Qualifications

  • 10–12 years of total engineering experience with at least 3 years in a management or

    • team leadership role.

  • Strong hands-on coding skills, with the ability to contribute directly to core development

    • tasks.

  • Experience working in startup environments (early engineer, co-founder, or similar

    • roles).

  • Demonstrated career progression within prior organizations.
  • Strong educational pedigree (IITs or equivalent tier institutions preferred).

    • Technical Expertise

  • Mandatory :

    • o Kubernetes

    o Web application development

    o Relational, non-relational, vector, and graph database experience

    o Orchestration tools

    o Typescript

  • Good to Have :

    • o Cloud infrastructure and VM management

    o Experience in machine learning applications

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