Principal Engineer Architect Full Stack

Position Title: Principal Engineer / Architect Full Stack

Location: Irvine, CA or Anywhere in USA (preferably West Coast based or willing to work in PST Zone)

Duration: Fulltime

Key Skills:

Retail domain Exp. mandatory and candidate form PST time Zone preferred

Define and own platform architecture and engineering strategy

Lead large-scale platform modernization initiatives

Build proofs of concept and contribute production-grade code

Drive architecture reviews and engineering standards

Resolve cross-team technical dependencies

Required Technical Skills

Deep expertise in C#/.NET, Go, Java, or Python

High-scale APIs and distributed systems

Data modelling and event-driven architectures

React or modern frontend frameworks

Platform modernization and migration experience

Required Leadership Skills

12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant tenure at Staff/Principal level.

Drive cross-team technical decisions, platform direction, and multi-team initiatives (architecture alignment, trade-off resolution, execution).

Define and scale AI-driven SDLC standards, including tools, guardrails, and automation patterns.

Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) to deliver production systems; able to articulate workflow impact and guardrails.

Strong experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems (APIs, data pipelines, eventdriven systems, high-scale platforms).

Proven cross-org leadership-driving architecture, standards, and platform initiatives across multiple teams.

Elevate engineering quality through code reviews, architecture reviews, and mentoring senior engineers.

Strong engineering fundamentals in code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability while maintaining delivery velocity.

Effective communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment without formal authority.

Experience collaborating across product, data, security, and infrastructure teams.

Track record of documenting and scaling architectural decisions and organizational learnings.