Principal Engineer, Platform & Architecture

About the role: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.You’ll work closely with the VP of Engineering, senior engineers, and product leadership to define and evolve the technical roadmap while enabling scalable product delivery. You'll also act as a trusted advisor, supporting senior engineers as they grow into confident system owners and technical leaders.Success in this role comes from empowering others—offering the right context, support, and shared understanding to help teams make informed technical decisions with confidence.  What your day to day will look like: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 speedTranslate long-term product direction into actionable technical insights, so teams can make decisions with clarity, not guessworkSupport teams in making smart architectural choices that align with the broader platform, giving them flexibility without enforcing rigid rulesJump into key architectural discussions, design reviews, and deep technical dives, ensuring platform-wide implications and long-term maintainability are factored inHelp connect the dots across frontend, backend, and platform decisions, ensuring architecture evolves as a cohesive system, not a collection of disconnected partsCoach and mentor senior engineers and tech leads, strengthening their architectural mindset and growing their ability to own complex systemsIdentify and elevate critical technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities, ensuring the right conversations happen at the right levelKeep teams aligned by sharing patterns, lessons learned, and best practices, helping engineers build smarter, not just faster