Description :

Role : Principal Engineer / Architect

Experience : 15 - 25 Years

Location : Bengaluru (Hybrid)

Employment Type : Full-time

Industry : Product / SaaS Companies only

Role Overview :

We are looking for a hands-on Principal Engineer / Architect with strong experience in building and scaling SaaS platforms. The role requires deep technical expertise, architectural ownership, and active coding, especially in Ruby on Rails and Node.js.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead system architecture and technical design for large-scale SaaS products

- Actively contribute to coding and critical technical decisions

- Build scalable, secure, and high-availability systems

- Mentor engineers and drive engineering best practices

- Collaborate with Product, QA, and DevOps teams

Required Experience & Skills :

- 15+ years of software engineering experience

- 5+ years in a senior technical leadership role

- Strong background in product-based companies (mandatory)

- Hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React

- Experience with distributed systems and microservices

- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, REST APIs

- Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

- Familiarity with OAuth, SAML, OpenID, LDAP, SCIM

Tools & Platforms :

CI/CD :

- GitHub Actions, TeamCity

Monitoring :

- Datadog, Sumo Logic

Education :

- Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science or equivalent experience