Role Overview :

We are looking for an experienced Principal Architect to define and drive the architectural vision and technical strategy for large-scale, cloud-native platforms.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing highly scalable, resilient, and secure systems while collaborating closely with engineering, product, data, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities :

- Define and enforce architectural standards, principles, and best practices across platforms and services.

- Design scalable, distributed, event-driven, and microservices-based systems.

- Drive technical strategy, architecture reviews, and engineering excellence.

- Ensure high availability, performance, fault tolerance, and security of mission-critical applications.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technology initiatives with business goals.

- Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership across the organization.

- Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, and tools.

- Establish API design standards, governance, and security practices.

- Lead architecture and design decisions for complex products and platforms.

Required Skills & Experience :

- BE/MS in Computer Science or a related field.

- 12- 15 years of software engineering experience with significant time in architect-level roles.

- Strong expertise in at least two backend technologies such as Java, Node.js, Python, or Go.

- Deep understanding of frameworks such as Spring Boot, Express.js, Django, or equivalent.

- Extensive experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.

- Strong knowledge of data modeling, database design, and performance optimization.

- Expertise in API design, scalability, reliability, and security best practices.

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices.

Preferred Skills :

- Experience with Generative AI technologies and LLM ecosystems.

- Knowledge of OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

- Understanding of prompt engineering, model evaluation, fine-tuning, and scalable AI deployments.

- Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring abilities.

Ideal Candidate :

- Proven track record of architecting and scaling large enterprise platforms.

- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to influence technical direction.

- Passion for solving complex engineering challenges and driving innovation.

- Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments