Principal Engineer

Overview

Principal Engineer – Backend providing technical leadership across the backend engineering organization. The role shapes distributed financial systems, drives architectural direction, and promotes AI-first engineering practices.

What you'll do

• Define architectural vision for large-scale backend systems and distributed platforms.
• Design and build scalable, secure, resilient, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Drive architecture decisions, engineering standards, and best practices across teams.
• Lead improvements in scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and developer productivity.
• Influence technical strategy across multiple engineering teams and organizational boundaries.
• Mentor engineering leads, senior engineers, and architects.
• Explore AI technologies, MCP, and agent-based architectures for engineering and business value.

What you'll need

• Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and backend platforms.
• Expertise in backend engineering, APIs, microservices, data-intensive systems, and cloud-native architectures.
• Deep understanding of consistency, availability, fault tolerance, concurrency, messaging, and distributed transactions.
• Experience leading architecture and technical strategy across multiple teams or complex domains.
• Experience operating systems with high availability, performance, security, and reliability requirements.
• Experience with AI/LLM technologies and AI-first engineering workflows.
• Strong communication, stakeholder-management, mentoring, and product skills.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AI agents, MCP, tool calling, or agentic workflows.

Details

• Location: Gurugram, India.