Principal Engineer

• Architectural Stewardship: Design and evolve complex, event-driven architectures
• Workflow Orchestration: Act as the subject matter expert for distributed message oriented architectures
• Technical Excellence (JVM & Beyond): Set the 'gold standard' for development in Kotlin and Java
• Full-Stack Bridge: Provide guidance on the integration between robust JVM backends and modern React/TypeScript frontends
• Infrastructure & DX: Standardize and optimize our GCP environment (GKE, Postgres, BigQuery) and lead the maturation of our CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions
• Technical Mentorship: Spend significant time 'in the trenches' with senior engineers, conducting high-impact code reviews and pair programming
• Strategy & Influence: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define technical roadmaps

• 10+ years in software engineering
• Recent experience in a 'Principal,' 'Staff,' or 'Technical Lead' capacity within a high-growth SaaS or product-led company
• JVM Mastery: Deep expertise in Kotlin and/or Java
• Frontend Fluency: Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React
• Distributed Systems & Messaging: Expert-level knowledge of Message-Oriented Architectures
• Cloud Native (GCP): Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, specifically Kubernetes (GKE), Cloud SQL (postgres), and leveraging BigQuery
• DevOps Mindset: Proponent of 'you build it, you run it.' Expert in Git and automating complex delivery workflows with GitHub Actions

Temporal.io experience

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