Principal Full-Stack Engineer: AI-Driven SaaS

Teamified; Philippines; Remote; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Teamified is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to define technical direction for core platforms, while staying deeply hands-on across Laravel, Next.js, and cloud infrastructure. You will influence product alignment with scalable architecture and mentor engineers to raise engineering standards.

The role emphasizes leadership by example, strong communication, and a passion for delivering robust, scalable SaaS solutions for a global client base.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, with senior staff/architect experience in SaaS
• Deep expertise in backend with Laravel (Laravel10+ and PHP8+) or similar
• Strong frontend architectural experience with React/Next.js

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical direction for core platform domains used by both squads.
• Spend 60-80% of time hands-on: designing, coding, reviewing, pairing, debugging in Laravel, Next.js and cloud environments.
• Lead the technical discovery and delivery of high-impact initiatives across team boundaries or those requiring architectural change.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and feedback.
• Act as a senior engineering voice in roadmap planning, estimation and trade-off decisions.
• Work across both product squads focusing on cross-cutting systems and the hardest technical problems.
• Partner with Engineering Leadership on long-term architecture and with Tech Leads on execution and engineering practices.

Skills

Laravel backend

Next.js frontend

AWS cloud

Event-driven architecture

Kubernetes

AI/ML pipelines

architecture leadership

Tools

Looker

BigQuery

Job description

Teamified is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to define technical direction for core platforms, while staying deeply hands-on across Laravel, Next.js, and cloud infrastructure. You will influence product alignment with scalable architecture and mentor engineers to raise engineering standards.

The role emphasizes leadership by example, strong communication, and a passion for delivering robust, scalable SaaS solutions for a global client base.