Prinicipal Software Engineer
Core
Founding technical leader for a new Developer Experience (DevX) team building internal tooling, platforms, and infrastructure-as-code to scale engineering productivity across the organization.
Role type
Principal Software Engineer (Founding Technical Leader)
Builds
Internal developer tooling, CI/CD systems, platform capabilities, and infrastructure-as-code for all engineering teams.
Domain
Legal technology / Enterprise SaaS / Platform Engineering
Required skills
Architecture & technical direction, Internal developer tooling & platform engineering, Cross-team leadership without formal authority, Team building & hiring from scratch, Technical writing, Developer productivity metrics (DORA), C#, .NET, Python, AWS, Java
Preferred skills
Founding/scaling DevX or Platform Engineering teams, Cross-country engineering liaison experience, Legal tech or regulated enterprise software experience, Public technical leadership (speaking, open source)
Responsibilities
Set technical direction and roadmap for the new DevX team, Recruit and mentor Staff/Senior engineers, Partner with Product Manager to define charter and success metrics, Design and build scalable internal tools and platforms, Establish company-wide technical standards and patterns, Measure and improve developer productivity using data-driven metrics, Lead design reviews and communicate technical decisions across distributed teams
