Principal Engineer

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 14+ years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

We are hiring a Principal Engineer to lead the technical design and development of highly scalable backend systems. This is a hands-on technical leadership role involving architecture, system design, complex problem-solving and mentoring of senior engineers.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale distributed backend systems.

• Improve system performance, reliability, scalability and availability.

• Solve complex problems related to concurrency, consistency and asynchronous processing.

• Own key architecture and technical design decisions.

• Work hands-on with critical components and production systems.

• Set engineering standards and provide technical guidance across teams.

• Mentor senior engineers and support technical decision-making.

• Explore and implement AI-assisted development and AI/ML solutions where relevant.

Must-Have Technical Skills

• 12+ years of backend engineering experience.

• Strong hands-on experience with Golang (Go).

• Strong experience with Java, Python or C++ can also be considered.

• Deep understanding of Distributed Systems, Concurrency, Consistency Models and Asynchronous Architecture.

• Strong System Design and Architecture experience.

• Production experience with AWS, GCP or Azure.

• Strong experience with Relational and NoSQL databases.

• Strong troubleshooting experience across performance, reliability and scalability.

• Previous experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer or equivalent.

• Strong technical communication and mentoring skills.

Must-have skills

Golang, Java, Distributed Systems

Good-to-have skills

Python, AWS, SQL