Principal Engineer

About the role:

The Principal Engineer is a senior individual contributor role within the R&D organization, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering. This position exists to provide the highest level of technical leadership across the engineering team, ensuring that architectural decisions are sound, scalable, and aligned with the company's long-term product vision. The Principal Engineer owns system design, setting engineering standards, and guiding the team through ambiguous technical challenges. While this role carries no direct reports, its influence spans the entire engineering organization through mentorship, code review, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, UX, and QA. 

The Principal Engineer is expected to operate at the intersection of strategy and execution — translating business requirements into thoughtful technical solutions while keeping the team aligned and moving forward. This role was created to elevate the overall technical capability of the organization and to ensure that as the product scales, the underlying architecture scales with it.

Candidates must be available to work standard U.S. Eastern Time hours to ensure effective collaboration with distributed teams and external partners.