Remote Principal Engineer - AI-Driven SaaS Architect

Eliassen Group; Hagåtña (GU); Remote; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

401(k) with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands‑on Principal Engineer to shape the onboarding platform, influence architectural decisions, and drive AI capabilities. You will lead a team of about ten, write production code daily, and partner with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales to deliver scalable SaaS solutions in a remote setup.

The role requires 8+ years in software engineering, strong cloud‑native design, and the ability to balance speed with long‑term maintainability while advancing AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production SaaS platforms.
• Experience as a Staff, Principal, Lead Engineer, or similar technical leadership role.
• Strong architectural design experience within modern cloud‑native environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams and systems.
• Experience partnering with Product and business stakeholders to drive outcomes.
• Proficiency with Go, React, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud‑native/distributed systems.
• Preferred: AI/LLM integration, OpenAI or Anthropic platforms, MCP concepts, agentic AI frameworks, vector databases and retrieval, enterprise AI security and governance, API platform design and integrations, Salesforce ecosystem integrations.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural direction across the platform.
• Make strategic technical decisions impacting scalability, reliability, security, and future product innovation.
• Guide platform evolution while balancing speed, simplicity, and long‑term maintainability.
• Identify technical risks before they become business problems.
• Write production code daily and contribute directly to feature development.
• Design, build, and support scalable SaaS applications.
• Lead implementation efforts for complex customer and platform initiatives.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and provide technical mentorship.
• Help define and implement AI strategy and AI‑powered capabilities using modern LLM architectures.
• Develop proofs of concept for customer‑facing AI use cases.
• Architect solutions supporting customer‑managed AI, including BYOM and BYOK.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including MCP architectures, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI infrastructure patterns.
• Operate as a Product Engineer and partner closely with Product Leadership, Engineering Leadership, Customer Success, and Sales.
• Engage with customers to understand onboarding challenges and build demonstrations and prototypes.
• Translate customer requirements into platform capabilities and support strategic initiatives.

Skills

Architectural leadership

SaaS experience

Cloud-native

AI strategy

Production coding

Tools

Go

React

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands‑on Principal Engineer to shape the onboarding platform, influence architectural decisions, and drive AI capabilities. You will lead a team of about ten, write production code daily, and partner with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales to deliver scalable SaaS solutions in a remote setup.

The role requires 8+ years in software engineering, strong cloud‑native design, and the ability to balance speed with long‑term maintainability while advancing AI