Principal Software Engineer

The client is a growing technology company developing modern software solutions for businesses in the flooring and trade industries. They are seeking a hands-on Platform Lead to own a complex ERP platform end to end, including architecture, development, cloud infrastructure, reliability, technical strategy, and engineering team leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Own the technical platform end to end, including architecture, application development, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability, and technical strategy
• Complete knowledge transfer from the current contractor team and quickly develop deep ownership of the system
• Make and drive architecture decisions across backend, frontend, infrastructure, data, and engineering standards
• Remain hands-on with development, with an expected balance of approximately 50% technical contribution and 50% leadership/strategy as the role matures
• Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and help build a lean domestic, nearshore, or hybrid engineering team
• Own cloud architecture in AWS or Google Cloud, along with deployment, scalability, monitoring, and operational reliability
• Maintain and improve the CI/CD pipeline, with GitLab experience strongly preferred
• Solve high-impact and complex platform issues across the application and infrastructure stack
• Partner with leadership on product priorities, technical strategy, and the platform roadmap
• Support customer and operational issues when deep platform expertise is required
• Leverage AI-assisted development and automation to improve engineering productivity and enable a small team to deliver outsized results
• Completed knowledge transfer and taken full ownership of the platform
• Become the primary technical point of escalation for complex system issues
• Made meaningful hands-on contributions across the application and infrastructure
• Improved the platform’s architecture, reliability, CI/CD, observability, or engineering processes
• Helped define the future engineering team structure and technical direction
• Established yourself as a trusted technical partner to both the engineering team and company leadership

Requirements:

• Senior-level software engineering experience with ownership of complex, production-grade systems
• Strong experience owning a platform across application architecture, infrastructure, data, deployment, and reliability
• Hands-on cloud architecture experience with AWS or Google Cloud
• Experience owning and operating a full CI/CD pipeline in a cloud environment
• Strong GitLab CI/CD experience or closely comparable experience
• Ability to work across backend, frontend, databases, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps
• Strong architectural judgment and the ability to make decisions and execute without excessive process or handoffs
• Experience leading and mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on technically
• A startup or bootstrap mindset and comfort operating with limited resources and high accountability
• Experience with ERP, financial systems, accounting, inventory, supply chain, or other complex multi-module business platforms
• Familiarity with double-entry accounting, ledgers, reconciliation, or financial data integrity
• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, or Kubernetes
• Experience with observability and quality tooling such as Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Cypress, or similar technologies
• Experience using AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar agentic workflows
• Experience scaling or leading a small engineering team