Staff/Principal Engineer | India - Remote | Full-Time

Overview

Staff/Principal Engineer who owns architecture and engineering delivery quality for AI-powered B2B SaaS products, working directly with Product leads.

What you'll do

• Own all architectural decisions across Node 20, Express, and TypeScript.
• Write and review production code (40–60% of time) and provide architectural oversight.
• Define engineering standards including code review gates, testing coverage, observability, and incident post-mortems.
• Lead technical decisions on LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, MCP integrations, and AI cost management.
• Own integration between the Node/TypeScript backend and Python automation layer to prevent cascading failures.
• Drive infrastructure maturity with DevOps, including IaC standards and AWS ECS Fargate migration.
• Allocate technical resources, sequence priorities, remove blockers, and improve delivery quality across the team.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of software engineering with experience owning architecture decisions and delivery machinery.
• Deep Node.js and TypeScript production experience, including debugging performance issues and optimizing queries.
• Experience designing and shipping distributed systems (async queues, caching layers, pub-sub, background job orchestration).
• Python experience sufficient to review architectural decisions and own automation integration boundaries.
• Technical leadership of a team of 5+ engineers, including resource allocation, sequencing, and delivery quality.
• Ownership of production incidents end-to-end (detect, diagnose, fix, post-mortem, and prevention).

Nice to have

• Production experience shipping LLM-powered features (prompt design, output validation, cost management).
• RAG pipeline or agentic system experience in production.
• MCP or A2A protocol experience.
• AWS ECS Fargate/ECR or equivalent container orchestration with IaC standards.
• Queue management experience in production (BullMQ, Redis, or Valkey).
• Grafana/Loki (or equivalent) observability implementation.

Details

• Role is full-time and 100% remote with flexible hours.