Principal Architect — 0-to-1 B2B Platform Lead (Remote)

Riverside Insights; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Disability insurance

EAP

PTO & holidays

Flexible work

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Riverside Insights seeks a principal engineer to own the platform architecture for an enterprise-grade B2B system serving schools and districts. You will architect, code, and build the critical components, including adaptive engine, test delivery, and rostering, while shaping the team and migration plan.

You’ll work hands-on alongside engineers, collaborate with product, psychometrics, and content, and drive the技术 roadmap toward a 2028 launch with millions of students migrated to the new

Qualifications

• Has worked as a principal engineer or architect on large, complex, enterprise-grade production systems
• Has personally led a 0-to-1, B2B platform build as the senior technical owner
• Has built and led a team, combining existing and new hires, to hit an ambitious goal
• Has been the senior technical decision-maker on one project for at least 24 months
• Experience architecting and scaling production systems on AWS
• Experience operating in a regulated data environment (FERPA, COPPA, HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar)
• Full-stack fluency, front-end, back-end, architecture, DevOps, and testing
• Makes agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development the default way you build, not an add-on

Responsibilities

• Lead the 0-to-1 build. Own architecture, construction, and testing of the Reach platform through a Fall 2027 pilot, and the next-generation CogAT assessment through full 2028 launch.
• Architect for B2B scale. Design a complex, multi-component platform built for real production volume and institutional buyers, meeting the compliance bar of a regulated data environment.
• Build your team, within 60 days. Get deep on existing systems and the migration plan, then define the team you need and build it, drawing on existing talent and new hires within a 6-10 engineer budget.
• Own the first migration wave. Ensure the initial cohort of customers moving onto the new platform gets a day-one experience that's better than what they had, not just a like-for-like switch.
• Stay hands-on. Actively coding alongside your team, not reviewing architecture diagrams from a distance.
• Own build-vs-buy-vs-partner calls on core technical dependencies, adaptive engine, test delivery, rostering, with clear, cost- and risk-informed recommendations.
• Set the standard for AI-native engineering at Riverside, ways of working that let a small team move like a much bigger one.
• Own technical roadmap execution. Translate the Product team’s roadmap into a technical plan, sequencing architecture and infrastructure work, including where and how AI gets built into core capabilities like the Reporting Engine.
• Partner across the business. Regular demos of working software, transparent updates on progress, risk, and decisions needed.

Skills

Enterprise-scale architecture

AWS production systems

0-to-1 platform build

Team building

AI-assisted development

Regulated data environment

Stakeholder communication

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Riverside Insights seeks a principal engineer to own the platform architecture for an enterprise-grade B2B system serving schools and districts. You will architect, code, and build the critical components, including adaptive engine, test delivery, and rostering, while shaping the team and migration plan.

You’ll work hands-on alongside engineers, collaborate with product, psychometrics, and content, and drive the技术 roadmap toward a 2028 launch with millions of students migrated to the new