Principal Software Engineer - hybrid or remote

Our Marketplace delivers a best-in-class member rewards and shopping experience, offering a continuously updated, personalized catalog of products, goods and services that will enhance value to our members and drive margin for our business. Our products reach over 4M global users, giving you the chance to ship meaningful, high-visibility work. Our tech stack includes a mix of microservices and micro-frontends using Python, Go and React, running on GCP and Kubernetes.

The problems we solve are complex and meaningful, from scaling high-traffic systems to crafting thoughtful, intuitive user experiences that help create smoother, smarter, and more delightful experiences for our users. We’re resolving real engineering challenges at scale.

• Define the Future: drive the technical strategy and architectural vision that shapes how millions of people experience work around the world, influencing multiple teams and critical business outcomes.
• Organizational Impact: l leverage your deep expertise to solve the most ambiguous and complex technical challenges, setting the technical direction and raising the bar for engineering excellence across the organization.
• Deep Technical Engagement: remain profoundly hands‑on, actively coding approximately 50% of the time, directly tackling our most complex and ambiguous technical challenges and ensuring architectural vision is grounded in practical implementation.
• Strategic Leadership: mentor and guide senior technical talent, including Staff and Senior Staff Engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, technical mastery, and continuous learning.
• Influ & Innovation: work alongside an experienced leadership team, contributing directly to strategic technical decisions and influencing the long‑term product and engineering roadmap.
• High‑Growth Environment: thrive in a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment where you’re empowered to pioneer new approaches, challenge the status quo, and leave a lasting technical legacy.

• Architectural Vision & Strategy: own and evolve the architectural roadmap for critical parts of or the entire Marketplace offering. Define and champion Engineering best practices, standards, and guidelines for coding, testing, and infrastructure across multiple teams and organizational boundaries. Lead significant engineering initiatives that drive systemic improvements and technical innovation.
• Foundational Product Development: lead the design, build, and maintenance of innovative, cross‑functional platform capabilities that enhance the Achievers platform – the most‑used platform in the industry impacting 4+ million users in 170 countries worldwide. Drive the technical discovery and feasibility for major new product areas.
• Excellence in Delivery: influence and optimise continuous delivery pipelines and engineering processes across the organization, enabling rapid iteration and high‑quality software delivery e end‑to‑end ownership of major features or foundational modules from strategic design through deployment, ensuring the long‑term quality, reliability, and maintainability of the codebase.
• Strategic Technology Selection: evaluate, champion, and integrate strategic modern tools and technologies, including Python, Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Drone, Google Pub/Sub, React/Redux, Graph
  
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  , to solve the most complex, large‑scale challenges and future‑proof our platform.
• Organizational Mentorship & Growth: provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to Staff, Senior Staff, and other software developers across multiple teams, fostering an environment of technical excellence, continuous learning, and career development. Drive knowledge sharing and best practices across the engineering organization.
• Cross‑functional Leadership: collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to define strategic requirements, translate complex business problems into technical solutions, and influence the overall product and technology roadmap. Actively participate in cross‑functional planning sessions to align on organizational priorities and dependencies.
• Thought Leadership: conti…