[Hiring] Principal Engineer @Yourgi Pet

Role Description

Yourgi is on a mission to become Earth's most trusted pet care connector, connecting pet parents with a reliable local network of certified professionals, pet resorts, and veterinary centers. As our first Principal Engineer, you'll set the technical direction for cloud services, service design, and data across API, web, and mobile.

• Own the target cloud services architecture on AWS and the roadmap to get there.
• Lead service design: define service boundaries, event and API patterns, and versioned contracts.
• Own database design and optimization: data models, schema standards, query and index performance.
• Draft architecture and design documentation and chair reviews for any change that crosses teams.
• Raise the engineering bar for code review, testing strategy, observability, and performance budgets.
• Partner with Engineering Services on CI/CD, unattended deploys and rollbacks, and production monitoring.
• Shape our spec-driven, AI-assisted delivery workflow with product and design.
• Mentor senior engineers and tech leads, help hire, and assess build-vs-buy decisions.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and running production software, including 4+ years as a staff, principal, or architect-level engineer.
• Deep experience with AWS cloud services, serverless and event-driven systems, and microservice-to-platform migrations.
• A record of designing APIs, services, and data models that many teams and client versions depend on.
• Strong relational database design and performance tuning (MySQL or PostgreSQL).
• Hands-on with modern testing, CI/CD, and observability.
• Practical experience using AI coding and agent tools on real codebases.
• Clear writing; you persuade with design docs, not authority.

Requirements

• Marketplace, booking, scheduling, or payments (Stripe) systems.
• Data architecture for analytics: pipelines, a data lake or warehouse (e.g., Snowflake), and event tracking.
• Mobile apps that must support older versions in the field.
• Technical leadership through an org or platform transformation.

Benefits

• Health, vision, dental, long & short-term disability, and Life insurance.
• A Startup mentality company with stable funding.
• 401k match.
• Pet Care discounts.
• Flexible Time Off.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a network of like-minded professionals.