Principal Software Engineer

About the role

Xymbia Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead a small engineering team delivering the Zones Digital Platform for client Zones. The role blends technical leadership, hands‑on development, and people management in a hybrid work setting.

Key responsibilities

• Manage, mentor and develop a team of lead engineers and software engineers.
• Own technical direction and architectural decisions across backend services, frontend applications, and data systems.
• Contribute to critical implementations, design reviews, code reviews and complex troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with Zones stakeholders to translate business priorities into technical plans and delivery milestones.
• Establish engineering practices for testing, security, observability, performance and reliability.

Required profile

• Proven experience leading architecture and delivery of complex production software.
• Strong hands‑on backend engineering skills, ideally in Go, with ability to guide full‑stack development.
• Experience managing and mentoring senior or lead engineers.
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, API design, relational databases and event‑driven architecture.
• Clear communication skills and experience collaborating directly with client stakeholders.

Required skills

• Go (Golang)
• React
• PostgreSQL
• StarRocks
• Kafka