Position Title:
Principal Engineer /Architect Full Stack
Location:
Irvine, California or Anywhere in USA (preferably West Coast based or willing to work in PST Zone)
Wrok Mode - Onsite/Hybrid/Remote
Key Skills:
Retail domain Exp. mandatory and candiate form PST time Zone prefred
• Define and own platform architecture and engineering strategy
• Lead large-scale platform modernization initiatives
• Build proofs of concept and contribute production-grade code
• Drive architecture reviews and engineering standards
• Resolve cross-team technical dependencies
Required Technical Skills
• Deep expertise in C#/.NET, Go, Java, or Python
• High-scale APIs and distributed systems
• Data modelling and event-driven architectures
• React or modern frontend frameworks
• Platform modernization and migration experience
Required Leadership Skills
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant tenure at Staff/Principal level.
• Drive cross-team technical decisions, platform direction, and multi-team initiatives (architecture alignment, trade-off resolution, execution).
• Define and scale AI-driven SDLC standards, including tools, guardrails, and automation patterns.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) to deliver production systems; able to articulate workflow impact and guardrails.
• Strong experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems (APIs, data pipelines, eventdriven systems, high-scale platforms).
• Proven cross-org leadership—driving architecture, standards, and platform initiatives across multiple teams.
• Elevate engineering quality through code reviews, architecture reviews, and mentoring senior engineers.
• Strong engineering fundamentals in code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability while maintaining delivery velocity.
• Effective communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment without formal authority.
• Experience collaborating across product, data, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Track record of documenting and scaling architectural decisions and organizational learnings.