Principal Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define and scale the next generation of Shipt’s marketplace architecture.
• Set technical direction across modern frontend architecture, backend services, GraphQL orchestration, pricing, loyalty, experimentation, and AI-native engineering workflows.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science, and business stakeholders to build scalable and resilient systems.
• Drive the evolution of Config-Driven / Server-Driven UI patterns for flexible and reusable experiences.
• Architect and scale GraphQL orchestration patterns, including schema design and caching strategies.
• Guide the design of resilient backend microservices and APIs for high-scale marketplace domains such as pricing and promotions.
• Champion AI-native engineering practices across Marketplace Engineering.

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of designing and shipping production-scale systems across frontend and backend domains.
• Deep experience leading architecture for large-scale customer-facing platforms, marketplaces, commerce systems, or high-traffic digital products.
• Strong full-stack technical depth, including modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, Type Script, and backend services built in languages such as Go, Python, Java, or Node.js.
• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and low-latency platform capabilities.
• Strong understanding of GraphQL, including schema design, federation, orchestration, caching strategies, and frontend/backend contract governance.
• Experience with Config-Driven UI, Server-Driven UI, metadata-driven applications, or dynamic content platforms.
• Experience building or evolving platform capabilities in domains such as pricing, promotions, loyalty, personalization, experimentation, search/discovery, or checkout.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, including AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, infrastructure as code, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience with observability and operational excellence, including tools such as Datadog, Open Telemetry, Sentry, New Relic, or similar platforms.
• Strong data modeling experience across relational databases, No
  
  SQL systems, caching layers, and event streams.

Demonstrates extensive experience in designing and scaling production-grade systems, with a strong focus on modern frontend and backend architectures. Proficient in GraphQL orchestration, microservices, and cloud-native technologies to drive innovation in marketplace engineering.