Principal Engineer - Systems Architect & Technical Visionary
- Austin
- Permanent
- Permanent IT
- ABa22-1616215
- 22/08/2025
Principal Engineer – Systems Architect & Technical Visionary
Remote (US) or Austin, TX
$230,000–$280,000 Base + Benefits
This role is built for a Principal Engineer who thrives on shaping technical direction, solving hard problems at scale, and influencing the future of complex systems. It’s a chance to step into a pivotal leadership position where clarity, simplicity, and elegant design matter as much as raw technical firepower.
The successful candidate will play a central role in modernizing commercial insurance distribution — architecting systems for long-term scalability, guiding multi-team initiatives, and delivering AI-driven solutions that reimagine industry workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Certus Recruitment Group is a well-established and experienced specialist consultancy providing sales, marketing, and IT recruitment services. We serve the technology sector across North America, the UK, Europe, and Australia.
Remote (US) or Austin, TX
$230,000–$280,000 Base + Benefits
This role is built for a Principal Engineer who thrives on shaping technical direction, solving hard problems at scale, and influencing the future of complex systems. It’s a chance to step into a pivotal leadership position where clarity, simplicity, and elegant design matter as much as raw technical firepower.
The successful candidate will play a central role in modernizing commercial insurance distribution — architecting systems for long-term scalability, guiding multi-team initiatives, and delivering AI-driven solutions that reimagine industry workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect large-scale systems with a focus on modularity, scalability, and long-term flexibility.
- Lead multi-team initiatives, setting direction for products, platforms, and infrastructure.
- Drive innovation through AI-powered solutions, designed for a future MCP-driven world.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Data leadership to define robust solutions — often before problems are fully articulated.
- Create internal frameworks, libraries, and standards that accelerate development velocity.
- Champion technical excellence in security, observability, maintainability, and performance.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers, fostering both innovation and thoughtful engineering practices.
- Shape engineering strategy: evaluating build vs. buy, making technology choices, and guiding organizational planning.
- 8+ years in software engineering, with a proven track record of leading complex, high-impact projects.
- Experience setting technical direction and influencing both product and infrastructure.
- Strong bias toward clarity, simplicity, and sustainable design.
- Skilled at balancing velocity with long-term architectural vision.
- Bonus: background in fintech or compliance-heavy industries, and interest in AI coding tools.
- Remote-first across the US, or Austin-based.
- Salary: $230k–$280k.
- Quarterly team colocation travel.
Certus Recruitment Group is a well-established and experienced specialist consultancy providing sales, marketing, and IT recruitment services. We serve the technology sector across North America, the UK, Europe, and Australia.