Principal Engineer - Node.js/Ruby on Rails

Description :

We are seeking a highly hands-on Principal Engineer to lead the design and development of large-scale SaaS platforms. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep technical expertise, strong system architecture skills, and technical leadership, while still actively coding.

You will play a critical role in shaping architecture, setting engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and building scalable, secure, and high-performing systems.

Role : Principal Engineer

Experience : 16 - 25 Years

Location : Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)

Employment Type : Full-time

Industry : Product Companies only

Key Responsibilities

- Act as a hands-on technical leader, contributing directly to coding, architecture, and design.

- Architect and scale distributed, highly available SaaS systems.

- Drive technology decisions, system design, and engineering best practices.

- Mentor and guide a small, high-impact engineering team.

- Collaborate closely with Product, QA, and DevOps teams in an agile environment.

- Ensure systems meet high standards of performance, security, scalability, and reliability.

- Lead and participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions.

Required Experience :

- 16+ years of enterprise software development experience.

- 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles (Principal / Staff Engineer / Architect).

- Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems.

- Mandatory experience in product-based companies.

- Proven, hands-on production experience with Ruby on Rails and Node.js.

Leadership & Collaboration :

- Ability to influence technical direction across teams.

- Experience mentoring senior and mid-level engineers.

- Strong collaboration in Agile / Scrum teams.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Education :

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

- Comfortable working in a hybrid setup from Bengaluru

Nice to Have :

- Experience building high-volume, high-performance systems.

- Strong understanding of security and secure coding practices.

Why Join?

- Work on complex, high-scale SaaS systems.

- High ownership and influence on architecture & engineering culture.

- Opportunity to stay deeply hands-on at a senior level.

- Collaborate with strong product and engineering leaders.