Principal Engineer

This is a full time/Direct role with one of our client - A product based company established in 1969.

About the Role

We are seeking a Principal Engineer who will act as the technical owner and architect for their product domain. You will play a critical role in modernizing platforms, scaling services, improving reliability, and mentoring engineers , while partnering with Engineering Managers, Product, AI Labs, Platform, and fellow PEs to ensure our solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, cost-efficient , and aligned with CAs mission of supporting students, teachers, and the full learning lifecycle .

What You Will Do

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own architecture, technical direction, and long-term system health for your domain.
• Design scalable, reliable systems used across student and educator workflows.
• Maintain clear, up-to-date architectural documentation and drive CA-wide standards.

Execution & Engineering Excellence

• Lead development of Java/Spring Boot microservices and contribute to ReactJS where needed.
• Ensure high-quality code, strong testing discipline, and clean interfaces.
• Drive platform modernization, performance improvements, and responsible refactoring.

Cross-Team Collaboration & Influence

• Lead complex, multi-team integrations and align data contracts, interfaces, and ownership.
• Influence engineers, fellow PEs, EMs, PMs, and partner teams without authority.
• Promote reusable patterns and prevent siloed or bespoke solutions.

Operational Ownership

• Own reliability, performance, uptime, and on-call readiness for your systems.
• Lead incident analysis, drive long-term fixes, and define meaningful SLIs/SLOs.
• Ensure secure design practices and optimize cloud cost for your services.

Mentorship & Technical Growth

• Mentor engineers at all levels in design, debugging, system thinking, and patterns.
• Partner with the Engineering Manager on architecture, quality, predictability, and team development.
• Contribute actively to CA-wide technical forums and engineering communities.

What You Bring

Technical Expertise

• 1218 years of experience building large-scale backend or full-stack systems.
• Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems, microservices, APIs .
• Working knowledge of ReactJS and front-end integration patterns.
• Strong debugging skills in production-scale distributed environments.
• Solid grounding in databases, caching, queues, CI/CD, containers, and observability.

Architecture & Leadership

• Demonstrated ability to design and evolve complex systems supporting high-scale student/teacher products.
• Proven influence across multiple teams with strong decision-making and trade-off analysis.
• Track record of raising engineering standards and mentoring senior engineers.

Operational & Cloud Experience

• Experience owning production systems, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with AWS or Azure cloud ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of secure development and privacy considerations for student data.

Nice to Have

• Experience with PHP/LAMP stack.
• EdTech or large-scale learning platform experience.
• Exposure to ML/AI-powered personalization workflows.