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Principal/Architect Software Engineer

Tonal· Technology
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Remote$275k - $320kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

You’ll lead architecture and delivery across Tonal’s device, app, and cloud systems: turn business priorities into technical direction, own initiatives that span teams, and grow senior engineers into technical leaders. You report to engineering leadership and stay hands-on from design through production. Success means shipped outcomes, stronger systems, and teams that move faster.

Responsibilities

  • Set 6–12 month technical direction across device, app, and cloud. Turn product priorities into architecture, ownership, and delivery plans.
  • Lead a few cross-team initiatives from problem definition to launch and adoption. Settle tradeoffs with team leads; flag priority and resource conflicts early.
  • Write critical-path code, build prototypes, guide migrations, and debug hard production issues. Own how your architecture decisions play out in practice.
  • Simplify shared systems and interfaces. Improve reliability, observability, security, and developer workflow so teams need less coordination to ship.
  • Mentor senior and Staff engineers through design, pairing, and shared delivery. Set up lightweight decision practices so teams can act on their own.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering tools where they improve delivery or quality. Partner with Data Science, AI, and platform owners on production integrations.

Qualifications

  • You’ve led architecture and delivery across multiple teams at Senior Staff or Principal scope, with measurable results.
  • You have deep backend, distributed systems, and cloud expertise and reason well across device, mobile, data, and service boundaries.
  • You still build and operate production software. You’ve owned hard integrations or migrations and made pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability.
  • You turn ambiguity into focused plans and get alignment from technical and nontechnical partners.
  • You’ve made other senior engineers stronger technical leaders and can show how your work improved teams beyond your own.

Skills

Required:Technical leadership and architectureBackend and distributed systemsProduction software operations

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • retirement savings benefits
  • life insurance and disability benefits
  • flexible paid time off
  • parental leave
  • and other additional benefits
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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