Principal Engineer

We're expanding our core engineering team and need a hands-on technical leader who can architect, deliver, and own business-critical platforms end-to-end. If you love turning bold ideas into reliable, high-throughput systems that directly move the P&L needle—we want to meet you!

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What You'll Do

• Own architecture & delivery of payment, catalog, logistics, and growth services handling tens of thousands of requests per second

• Design, build, and tune Java 17+ / Spring Boot microservices, Kafka event pipelines, distributed caches, and cloud-native deployments (Kubernetes on either AWS/GCP/Azure)

• Drive engineering excellence: establish coding standards, automate CI/CD, champion observability and SRE practices

• Lead & mentor a squad of senior engineers; facilitate architecture reviews and hands-on pair design

• Translate features into business impact: partner with Product & Data teams to optimise conversion, retention, and unit economics

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of production software experience, with 3+ years in a staff/principal or tech-lead capacity

• Proven success delivering high-scale, low-latency systems in e-commerce, quick commerce, food-tech, fintech, or similar domains

• Deep expertise in Java 17+, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, SQL/NoSQL (PostgreSQL/MongoDB), Kubernetes, and AWS/GCP

• Solid command of DDD, clean architecture, CAP trade-offs, chaos testing, cost optimisation

• Passion for mentoring and a true you build it, you run it mindset

• Bonus: exposure to real-time analytics, streaming ML, serverless, or LLM/RAG workflows

Why You'll Love It Here

• Green-field autonomy: influence roadmap and tech stack from day 0

• Direct P&L impact: your work visibly moves revenue, margins, and customer NPS

• High-performance peers who value clean code, rapid iteration, and psychological safety

• Competitive package, fast growth, and dedicated learning budgets