Principal Software Engineer

Alpheva; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpheva is seeking a senior software engineering reviewer for autonomous, project-based work. You will evaluate AI-generated implementations, assess architecture, and provide actionable feedback to improve correctness, security, performance, and maintainability across production systems.

You will review designs and code, identify subtle defects, weak tests, and unnecessary complexity, and propose reference solutions that reflect staff- or principal-level judgment without overengineering.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Staff, principal, architect, or equivalent technical-leadership scope.
• Expert code-review judgment across correctness, security, performance, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate advanced AI-generated implementations, debugging strategies, architecture decisions, and technical explanations across production software systems.
• Review code and designs for correctness, security, performance, maintainability, observability, and alignment with stated product constraints.
• Identify subtle defects, unsafe assumptions, weak tests, unnecessary complexity, and recommendations that would fail under real production conditions.
• Provide reference solutions and review comments that demonstrate staff- or principal-level technical judgment without overengineering.

Skills

Code-review

Leadership

Education

10+ years of software engineering

Staff/Principal leadership

Job description

Evaluate advanced AI-generated implementations, debugging strategies, architecture decisions, and technical explanations across production software systems.

Review code and designs for correctness, security, performance, maintainability, observability, and alignment with stated product constraints.

Identify subtle defects, unsafe assumptions, weak tests, unnecessary complexity, and recommendations that would fail under real production conditions.

Provide reference solutions and review comments that demonstrate staff- or principal-level technical judgment without overengineering.

Remote, project-based contract work. Scope and hours depend on project matching; the listed hourly range applies to matched work.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Staff, principal, architect, or equivalent technical-leadership scope
• Expert code-review judgment across correctness, security, performance, and maintainability

Pay

$145–$220/hr

Alpheva is a new expert network (launched September 2026); payout methods are not published yet, so confirm your first payment before scaling up.