Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Avanciers Inc. is hiring a Principal Engineer – Full Stack for a client in the retail domain. The role focuses on leading full-stack engineering, designing large-scale distributed systems, driving platform modernization, and establishing AI-driven software development standards. The engineer will also lead cross-team technical initiatives, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate across product, data, security, and infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities
- 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, event driven 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
- Experience working with distributed teams (US, China, LATAM)
Skills
- Time Zone: Candidate must be able to work in PST hours
- Domain: Retail – mandatory
- Prior experience working with enterprise-level organizations or large, established companies is required
- Strong Retail domain experience is mandatory
- Looking for candidates with a stable career history and longer tenures with previous employers
- Deep expertise in C#/.NET, Go, Java, or Python
- High-scale APIs and distributed systems
- Data modeling and event-driven architectures
- React or modern frontend frameworks
- Platform modernization and migration experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant tenure at Staff/Principal level
- 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, event driven systems, high-scale platforms)
- Proven cross-org leadership—driving architecture, standards, and platform initiatives across multiple teams
- 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
- Experience working with distributed teams (US, China, LATAM)
- Candidates currently based in the PST time zone are preferred
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