Principal Engineer all genders Berlin hybrid or remote

Responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Principal Engineer to drive bestinclass architecture design decisions and ensure a continuous improvement of our distributed architecture across all product development teams. You report directly to the CTPO and work closely with Engineering Leadership and regularly engage with our Staff Engineers. In this role you will guide the architectural approaches of the product development in teams and thus will bring experience from different platform architectures in multiple organizations into the discussions and decisionmaking process.

You will be a maker not a manager but it will come with leadership duties. As Principal Engineer you will make the whole team better by advocating for best practices creating awareness for established processes and helping teams to understand the right way forward technically. You will speak to technical aspects of the product connect planned work to business strategy and to what makes the company more successful and maybe most importantly utilize interpersonal skills to influence others around you towards common goals.

• Guide the development of the platform architecture and make corrections as necessary
• Act as a technical role model and lead efforts to innovate and improve distributed software systems
• Work with engineering leadership to support the Chief Technology Product Officer in the development and execution of the technical strategy and take ownership of specific areas within the strategy
• Lead key project discussions that focus on the longterm strategic goals of the organization
• Work with Staff and Senior Engineers in teams and provide early guidance on project complexity feasibility effort and architectural approaches
• Develop and review architectural designs that adhere to established principles and discuss these designs with engineering product and data teams
• Mentor others by participating in technical decisionmaking processes that promote scalability and an understanding of the impact of decisions on the business
• Encourage collaboration between teams to discuss technical synergies and integration efforts
• Conduct proof of concept work to identify and mitigate potential risks in future projects ensuring that all team members have the opportunity to contribute
• Conduct technical interviews to recruit engineering staff and improve overall team performance

Skills

• Extensive experience across diverse software stacks and platform architectures with a proven track record of providing technological leadership and guidance
• A decade of solid handson experience with creating testing and operating multistack architectures governed by cloud solutions. Ideally in highly complex environments
• Independent problemsolving skills with the ability to provide support and direction to the engineering team
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate strategic goals into technical discussions and provide technical perspective in strategic discussions
• A good understanding of DevOps/SRE best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure
• A proactive approach to improve processes and systems
• A history of sharing knowledge (e.g contributions to opensource projects past failures and learnings) is highly regarded
• Bias to action and ability to foster a culture of pragmatic delivery alongside technical excellence
• Experience in GoLang ideally combined with Ruby/RoR experience is considered a plus understanding Frontend Architecture even more so
• Leadership experience is a plus even if this role does not come with managing responsibilities

What we offer

Hybrid Work // Stay flexible: Decide freely whether you want to work from our office in Berlin from home throughout Germany or fully remote from Portugal. Additionally we offer you the possibility to work up to 30 days per year from selected EU countries.

Room to grow // Stay curious: In regular/annual feedback meetings you design your own personal development path together with your team lead. In addition we offer biweekly Tech Talks an annual training budget free access to LinkedIn Learning as well as great workshops to seek new input and specific training for your personal development.

Mental & physical health // Stay healthy & active: We care about your wellbeing and support your health with a discounted membership at Urban Sports Club. In addition our cooperation partner Frstenberg Institute is available to you and your family members with advice and support when it comes to mental health & coaching.

Taking responsibility // We #care: We care for our planet and the people who are living on it. To make our world a little bit better our Climate Action Team promotes our awareness for environmentally friendly behavior as an individual but also as a company. In addition we work with JobRad offer a discounted BVG ticket and actively support social projects in Berlin at our annual Social Day to give something back.

Teamspirit // Stay connected: What drives us is our sense of community. Thats why we celebrate our Company Day once a month in our office at Potsdamer Platz where everyone gets together in person. In addition to a comprehensive update of our CBoard the main focus is on togetherness and the exchange of ideas over lunch and dinner together.