Principal Software Engineer

Location: HQ - Berlin (Europe Remote or Hybrid)

Salary: €180-200k base plus bonus

Not all jobs are created equal. This is a career-defining chance to help shape the future of AI for Fortune 2000 enterprises while doing the best work of your career alongside exceptional peers. Our client is on a mission to become Europe’s leading AI engineering organisation and an iconic global AI Platform company.

Already trusted by multiple global enterprises, their platform is evolving into the AI Agent Management layer, powering digital transformation at scale. This is a rare opportunity to join a company competing head-to-head for the top 1% talent.

The Opportunity

They are seeking a Principal Engineer to define technical strategy and scale platforms for global enterprise adoption.

Responsibilities

- Define and drive technical strategy across domains and organisation-wide initiatives

- Lead cross-team architecture to deliver globally scalable solutions

- Balance short-term speed with long-term resilience, cost, and scalability

- Stay hands-on, from writing foundational code to leading design reviews and refactoring systems

- Act as a force multiplier by mentoring Staff Engineers and shaping future talent

Your Profile

- A seasoned technical leader with 12–15+ years’ experience and proven organisation-level or industry-wide impact

- Deep expertise in enterprise-scale systems and multi-team architecture leadership

- Equally comfortable shaping strategic vision and diving into technical detail

- Motivated by the chance to build one of Europe’s most admired engineering organisations and a world-class AI platform

- Agnostic to programming language - Rather you can lead architectural excellence by making high-impact design decisions & resolving complex technical challenges

Why Join?

This is a generational opportunity to join the best of the best, where attitude, energy, and hunger are valued as highly as technical expertise. With a remuneration package to match!