We are seeking a Principal Full Stack Developer / Engineering Lead to define and drive the technical evolution of our platform, scaling it to support the next generation of our SaaS products. This is a hands-on leadership role at the intersection of architecture, system design, cloud infrastructure, and engineering leadership more about enabling and guiding teams than day-to-day feature delivery.
What Youll Do
- Set the technical architecture — design distributed systems, service boundaries, integration patterns, and data flows for scalability, performance, and resilience.
- Lead design and architecture reviews , ensuring solutions align with long-term business and platform goals.
- Guide senior engineers in implementing backend services, APIs, and infrastructure with best practices and patterns.
- Drive scalability strategy — multi-region deployments, zero-downtime releases, resilience engineering, and disaster recovery.
- Shape data strategy — database selection, schema design, caching (Redis, CDN, edge compute), and event-driven architectures.
- Ensure frontend excellence through React / Next.js architecture, state management, and component design.
- Advance DevOps maturity — AWS infra automation, CI / CD pipelines, observability, and reliability engineering.
- Elevate engineering standards — performance-first, secure-by-default, design-for-failure principles.
What We’re Looking For
12+ years of experience in software engineering, with several years as a Principal, Staff, or Lead Engineer.Proven experience at scale — architected or migrated event-driven, cloud-native SaaS applications, de-risked initiatives with Kubernetes, containers, serverless, and microservices.Talent development — hired and scaled distributed engineering teams, built processes for productivity, and codified engineering principles.Strong product & design sense — able to thrive in ambiguity, lead tech discoveries, manage tech debt, and deliver 01 products.Hands-on developer — contribute actively to backend (Node.js / TypeScript, Rails) and frontend (React / Next.js / React Native).DevOps & Analytics expertise — infra scaling, CDP, leveraging data for product conversion optimization.Performance optimization — query tuning, caching strategies, reducing latency in high-throughput systems.Innovation at scale — proven success integrating AI into both developer lifecycle and customer-facing products.Current & Evolving Tech Stack
Backend : Node.js / TypeScript (evolving), Python, ServiceNowFrontend : Next.js, React, React NativeCloud & Infra : AWS (ECS, S3, CloudWatch), Docker, GitHub ActionsDatabases : PostgreSQL, RedisOther : REST APIs, OpenAPI, Feature Flags, Advanced monitoring (Sentry)You’ll have the freedom to evaluate and evolve our stack , introduce new frameworks and patterns, and set architectural guidelines that outlast individual technologies.
If you are interested in this awesome opportunity, please share your latest resume at careers@skillscapital.io