Principal Engineer

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to help shape the technical direction of Chowdeck as we continue to scale our platform, products, infrastructure, and engineering teams. You'll drive architecture decisions, improve engineering standards, and build scalable systems that power critical business areas such as customer ordering, logistics, vendor operations, fulfillment, and internal tooling.

Key responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical direction across multiple engineering teams and systems.
• Design and build scalable backend services and infrastructure.
• Drive improvements in reliability, performance, scalability, and engineering quality.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Leadership on long‑term technical strategy.
• Lead complex initiatives across logistics, fulfillment, payments, and platform infrastructure.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, observability, and development workflows.
• Mentor engineers at all levels and support technical growth across the organization.
• Identify long‑term technical risks and proactively propose solutions.

Required profile

• 10+ years of backend/software engineering experience.
• Proven experience building and scaling large, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong background leading technical architecture and cross‑functional engineering initiatives.
• Deep knowledge of backend systems, databases, APIs, caching, cloud infrastructure, and system design.
• Ability to make thoughtful technical decisions balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and business impact.
• Effective communication of technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Commitment to engineering quality, developer experience, and operational excellence.
• Thrives in fast‑paced startup environments with evolving challenges.
• Focus on customer satisfaction and experience.

Required skills

• NodeJS
• MySQL
• Redis
• AWS

What we offer

• Full medical coverage
• Smart, kind colleagues invested in your growth
• Housing assistance
• Transport assistance
• Lunch allowance