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Principal Engineer, Platform & Architecture
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[Hiring] Principal Engineer, Platform & Architecture @Ignition
Mar 18, 2025 - Ignition is hiring a remote Principal Engineer, Platform & Architecture. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: Australia.
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Role Description
We’re looking for a seasoned Principal Engineer to shape the long-term technical strategy of our platform and engineering team. This role blends deep architectural expertise with cross-functional influence and mentorship, ensuring engineering decisions align with product direction and business goals.
- Work with the VP of Engineering to refine and communicate a technical strategy for the platform that keeps teams moving forward today while ensuring the platform evolves with the business.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape the technical roadmap, balancing product goals, technical investments, and delivery speed.
- Translate long-term product direction into actionable technical insights, so teams can make decisions with clarity, not guesswork.
- Support teams in making smart architectural choices that align with the broader platform, giving them flexibility without enforcing rigid rules.
- Jump into key architectural discussions, design reviews, and deep technical dives, ensuring platform-wide implications and long-term maintainability are factored in.
- Help connect the dots across frontend, backend, and platform decisions, ensuring architecture evolves as a cohesive system, not a collection of disconnected parts.
- Coach and mentor senior engineers and tech leads, strengthening their architectural mindset and growing their ability to own complex systems.
- Identify and elevate critical technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities, ensuring the right conversations happen at the right level.
- Keep teams aligned by sharing patterns, lessons learned, and best practices, helping engineers build smarter, not just faster.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles (e.g., Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Architect), influencing technical direction and scaling both teams and platform.
- Proven ability to align technical decisions with product and business goals, working closely with engineering leadership and product teams to balance immediate priorities with long-term evolution.
- Deep expertise in both backend and frontend systems, with experience designing scalable, modular architectures that foster consistency across teams.
- Strong technical judgment, helping teams navigate complex trade-offs while staying hands-on in architecture reviews and key technical initiatives.
- A leadership approach that enables teams, strengthens engineering culture, and fosters alignment—without centralizing control.
- Exceptional facilitation and communication skills, mentoring senior engineers, surfacing risks early, and keeping technical discussions focused and productive.
Requirements
- Ruby/Rails modular monolith (using our own framework inspired by DDD)
- TypeScript/React SPA (managed by Nx), Chakra-UI, react-hook-form, Zod
- GraphQL (Apollo Client), Sidekiq/GoodJob for background processing
- CI/CD using RSpec, Jest, Cypress, Buildkite
- AWS (EKS, RDS/Postgres, CloudFront, S3), Redis
Benefits
- Employee stock options from day one
- 20 days of accrued annual leave/vacation plus 10 wellbeing days to prioritize yourself and your loved ones
- Additional paid day off to celebrate your birthday, along with volunteering leave
- Annual education allowance reimbursement to support your professional development
- Employee recognition program
- Quarterly wellness allowance to invest in your personal wellness
- Paid subscriptions to Headspace and LifeWorks EAP & Wellbeing Platform
- Flexible working arrangements, supported by WFH reimbursement and technology allowance to ensure your safety while working from home
- Personal tax return assistance (since we're in the accounting business!)
- Paid parental leave
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Software Development
Software Development
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Salary
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Remote
Location
Australia
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 18, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Australia |
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