Principal Consultant - Principal Software Engineer

Are you a deeply technical leader who thrives on solving high-impact problems, scaling systems, and guiding engineering teams through hands‑on leadership?

At Torq, we work with forward‑thinking organizations to design and deliver modern, scalable software solutions. We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help lead these efforts — someone who combines architectural depth, technical breadth, and the ability to mentor and influence other engineers.

This is a role for engineers who’ve moved beyond being great individual contributors and now amplify their impact through teams, design patterns, strategic guidance, and strong technical leadership.

• Define and lead technical direction across complex systems, projects, or client engagements
• Architect scalable, fault‑tolerant solutions that solve real business problems
• Work hands‑on with modern cloud‑native technologies — AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and more
• Design and deliver APIs and service architectures that enable fast, stable delivery and long‑term maintainability
• Set and uphold high engineering standards — reliability, testability, performance, and security
• Guide multiple teams through ambiguous technical challenges and trade‑offs
• Collaborate with cross‑functional partners (product, design, business) to align engineering with business needs
• Coach, mentor, and elevate other engineers — sharing knowledge and driving best practices
• Act as a trusted advisor for clients — bringing credibility, clarity, and calm to high‑stakes situations
• Identify emerging technologies and evaluate their application in real‑world systems
• Occasionally prototype ideas or lead technical spikes to de‑risk and accelerate delivery

You're a proven technical leader with experience guiding teams and delivering complex software in production environments.

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated leadership of teams or multiple teams — setting direction, coaching others, and owning outcomes
• Deep experience building and operating distributed systems, microservices, or high‑scale platforms
• Expertise in modern cloud environments — AWS, Azure, or GCP — and cloud‑native design patterns
• Strong working knowledge of containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Proven experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, Graph
  
  QL, and service‑layer architectures
• Experience with backend languages like Python, Java, Node.js, or .NET — and the ability to pick up new stacks
• Comfort working in agile environments with cross‑functional teams
• Consulting mindset: you bring clarity to chaos, ask the right questions, and know how to deliver value
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — you influence through clarity, not control

We value engineers who combine technical strength with humility, curiosity, and the ability to lead through collaboration.

(Not required, but highly valued — especially if you've worked in consulting or client‑facing roles.)

• Designing real‑time, event‑driven, or data‑intensive systems
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• Strong understanding of software reliability engineering (SRE) practices — observability, alerting, incident response
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, Cursor)
• Open‑source contributions or experience building internal frameworks / libraries
• Prior consulting or pre‑sales engineering experience — especially with complex stakeholder environments
• Experience influencing technical roadmaps, org‑wide standards, or platform strategy

• Competitive Salary – your bank account will be smiling
• Unlimited PTO – we’re serious about that work‑life balance thing
• Best‑in‑class health/vision/dental benefits – your health is our priority
• Generous 401K options – take care of your future with us
• Paid Parental Leave – supporting you during life's biggest milestones
• Opportunity to be a key player at a highly reputable, fast‑growing consulting firm
• High degree of internal mobility and diverse project opportunities

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