Remote Principal Engineer - AI Platform Architect

Eliassen Group; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 257,887,000 - 286,541,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to architect, implement, and guide AI-powered enhancements across our customer onboarding platform. You will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Customer Success, and Sales to embed AI capabilities, while delivering scalable SaaS solutions.

You will drive technology strategy, influence product direction, write production code daily, and shape the roadmap for a fast-moving, high-impact team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production SaaS platforms.
• Experience in staff/principal/lead engineer or equivalent leadership role.
• Strong architectural design experience in cloud-native environments.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams and systems.
• Experience partnering with product and business stakeholders to drive outcomes.
• Proven ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural direction across the platform.
• Make strategic technical decisions impacting scalability, reliability, security, and product innovation.
• Guide platform evolution balancing speed, simplicity, and maintainability.
• Identify technical risks before they become business problems.
• Write production code daily and contribute to feature development.
• Design, build, and support scalable SaaS applications.
• Lead implementation efforts for complex customer and platform initiatives.
• Participate in design and code reviews and provide technical mentorship.
• Help define and implement AI strategy and AI-powered capabilities.
• Develop proofs of concept for customer-facing AI use cases.
• Architect solutions for customer-managed AI including BYOM and BYOK.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including MCP architectures and enterprise AI patterns.
• Operate as a Product Engineer with close cooperation with Product/Engineering leadership.

Skills

Go (Golang)

React

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to architect, implement, and guide AI-powered enhancements across our customer onboarding platform. You will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Customer Success, and Sales to embed AI capabilities, while delivering scalable SaaS solutions.

You will drive technology strategy, influence product direction, write production code daily, and shape the roadmap for a fast-moving, high-impact team.