Principal Engineer

About the Role 

We are looking for a Principal Engineer, Delivery & Architecture to serve as a senior technical leader within our Pune office. 

You will work across multiple Agile teams (Scrum and ShapeUp), partnering with Technical Owners, Product Owners, and senior engineers to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across the platform. This role is both hands-on and advisory, raising the bar on architecture, delivery practices, and engineering quality across teams. 

What You’ll Do 

• Provide architectural guidance across teams, ensuring systems are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with company standards 

• Partner with Technical Owners to coach and guide design decisions, while reinforcing architectural consistency 

• Raise the bar on engineering quality by influencing design, code review practices, and system thinking 

• Identify cross-team technical risks, dependencies, and systemic issues, and drive resolution 

• Drive consistency in delivery practices across teams, including CI/CD ownership, testing strategy, and release quality 

• Participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and critical implementation decisions 

• Support the evolution of Agile practices (Scrum and ShapeUp) to improve delivery outcomes 

• Act as a senior on-the-ground technical leader in Pune, helping scale engineering culture and capability 

• Collaborate with the database team to ensure data models, stored procedures, and queries are performant and scalable 

AI-Driven Engineering Expectations 

• Establish patterns for AI-assisted design, implementation, and code review 

• Ensure engineers use AI tools (e.g., Claude) effectively while maintaining ownership of outcomes 

• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, quality, and consistency through AI-assisted workflows 

• Coach teams on when AI accelerates work, and when deeper engineering rigor is required 

What We’re Looking For 

Required 

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including senior or principal-level responsibilities 

• Strong hands-on experience with C#, React, and SQL Server 

• Experience designing and building microservices and distributed systems 

• Experience working in Azure environments, including CI/CD ownership (Azure DevOps) 

• Proven ability to influence engineering practices across multiple teams without direct authority 

• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, performance, and reliability 

• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum and/or ShapeUp) 

• Strong communication skills across distributed teams (India, US, UK, AU) 

Preferred 

• Experience working in platform-oriented or multi-team environmentsreactgorustazureaidevopsdataproductdesign