Principal Software Engineer

Xurrent; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Xurrent is seeking a Principal Engineer (Full Stack, Backend-Focused) to architect, develop, and optimize our multi-tenant SaaS platform. This role centers on backend scalability, data systems, and integration layers while maintaining fluency across the full stack.

You will drive technical vision, mentor engineers, and partner with frontend, product, and infra teams to deliver reliable, secure, and high‑performing services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in backend or full-stack engineering, with 2+ years in a staff or principal-level role.
• Expertise in Ruby, REST APIs, SQL/NoSQL, AWS and Serverless.
• Experience designing distributed, event-driven, microservice-based systems.
• Experience in multi-tenant SaaS, data isolation, and enterprise security (SOC2, GDPR).
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & System Design: Define and evolve backend and API architecture for scalability, security and performance.
• Hands-on Development: Write, review, and optimize code across backend and integration layers in Ruby, Python, or Node.js.
• Data & API Ownership: Oversee schema evolution, data modeling, caching, and API design for high throughput.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Guide senior and mid-level engineers, run technical design sessions, and shape engineering culture.
• Reliability & Observability: Collaborate with SRE on alerting, metrics, and disaster recovery.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Align with frontend, product, and infra teams for end-to-end delivery.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Champion automation, infrastructure-as-code, and performance profiling.

Skills

Ruby

REST APIs

Distributed systems

SaaS architecture

Leadership

Tools

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

AWS

Serverless

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

Join Xurrent, where our AI-driven Operations Management platform powers the way modern enterprises manage and evolve their service delivery. We’re looking for curious, driven individuals who want to make a real impact and grow with a company leading the next wave of service and operations innovation.

Mission of the Position

The Principal Engineer (Full Stack, Backend-Focused) is responsible for architecting,developing, and optimizing Xurrent’s multi-tenant SaaS platform. This role focuses on backendscalability, data systems, and integration layers while maintaining fluency across the full stack.

The Principal Engineer drives technical vision, elevates engineering excellence, mentors peers,and ensures the backend foundation is reliable, secure, and performant.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & System Design: Define and evolve the backend and API architecture,ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
• Hands-on Development: Write, review, and optimize code in Ruby, Python, or Node.jsacross backend and integration layers.
• Data & API Ownership: Oversee schema evolution, data modeling, caching, and APIdesign for high throughput.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Coach senior and mid-level engineers, lead technicaldesign sessions, and influence engineering culture.
• Reliability & Observability: Collaborate with SRE on alerting, metrics, and disasterrecovery processes.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Align with frontend, product, and infra teams to ensureseamless end-to-end delivery.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Champion automation, infrastructure-as-code, and performance profiling.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years in full-stack or backend engineering, with 2+ years in a staff orprincipal-level role.
• Tech Expertise: Ruby; REST APIs; SQL and NoSQL databases; AWS, Serverless.
• Architecture: Proven experience designing distributed, event-driven, microservice-based systems.
• SaaS Scale: Experience in multi-tenant environments, data isolation, and enterprisesecurity (SOC2, GDPR).
• Observability: Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and distributed tracing.
• Leadership: Strong communication, technical mentorship, and ability to drivearchitectural consensus.
• Bonus: Experience with AI/M, hybrid search (OpenSearch vector + lexical).
• Thinks and acts as a system architect, balancing innovation with stability.
• Known for deep debugging skills and data-informed decision-making.
• Advocates for developer productivity, maintainable codebases, and measurableoutcomes.
• Operates with autonomy while elevating the technical bar for the entire team.

Statement of Equal Opportunity

Xurrent is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees, where different backgrounds and perspectives are valued and encouraged - regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.