Principal Software Engineer - AI

onboardmeetings; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement contributions

Paid time off

Job summary

onboardmeetings is seeking a senior technical leader to design and build AI-enabled SaaS platforms in a remote US-based role. You will oversee architecture, implementation, developer experience, and long-range planning, with a focus on maintainable systems and customer experience.

You will mentor engineers, drive complex design work, and promote AI-assisted development tools while ensuring secure, high-transaction systems and SOC 2/ISO 27001 alignment.

Qualifications

• Degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, or equivalent.
• 10+ years building SaaS products with modern web stacks.
• 5–7 years developing web apps with C# and .NET Core.
• 5+ years with REST APIs and microservices.
• Experience with AI tooling and measurable delivery quality improvements.
• Strong knowledge of Agile and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex software, including semantic search, vector database, retrieval augmented generation, and language model orchestration capabilities.
• Turn business needs into technical designs and deliver them iteratively with cross functional teams.
• Mentor engineers, encourage knowledge sharing, and guide technical decisions.
• Build reusable code and developer tools, review contributions, and maintain coding standards.
• Promote effective use of AI assisted development tools and improve engineering workflows.
• Identify technical improvements and preserve architectural quality through staged delivery.

Skills

SaaS product engineering

C# & .NET Core

REST APIs & microservices

AI tooling & coding assistants

Technical leadership & mentoring

Agile & DevOps practices

Education

Degree in software engineering / CS or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflow

Job description

Role overview

Provide technical leadership while designing and building user facing SaaS software, including AI enabled and agentic capabilities. The role spans architecture, implementation, developer experience, and long range technical planning, with an emphasis on maintainable systems, customer experience, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex software, including semantic search, vector database, retrieval augmented generation, and language model orchestration capabilities.
• Turn business needs into technical designs and deliver them iteratively with cross functional teams.
• Mentor engineers, encourage knowledge sharing, and guide technical decisions.
• Build reusable code and developer tools, review contributions, and maintain coding standards.
• Promote effective use of AI assisted development tools and improve engineering workflows.
• Identify technical improvements and preserve architectural quality through staged delivery.

Requirements

• Degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 10 years building SaaS products, especially production features on modern web stacks.
• 5–7 years developing web applications with C# and .NET Core.
• At least 5 years with REST APIs and microservices, including large scale messaging, event, or data lake systems.
• Practical experience using AI coding assistants and measurable ability to improve delivery or code quality.
• Experience in one or more areas such as semantic search, vector databases, RAG, prompt engineering, model orchestration, or AI tooling.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, CI/CD and Git workflow knowledge, and experience with secure, high transaction systems subject to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 requirements.
• Technical leadership experience and fluency in Agile and DevOps practices.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote position aligned to US Eastern Time working hours.
• The listing describes benefits that vary by country, including health coverage, retirement contributions, insurance, and paid time off.