Senior Principal Engineer / Chief Engineer - Remote

Overview

A top-tier hands-on technical leader shaping Elmenus’ long-term backend, data, and infrastructure architecture. You own complex distributed systems, drive platform-scale initiatives, and solve the hardest technical problems across ordering, catalog, logistics, payments, and data. No people management—your impact comes from deep technical execution and architectural leadership.

In Short

• Define and evolve core architecture across Java/Scala microservices.
• Lead platform-wide initiatives: reliability, scalability, service decomposition, caching, EDT/ETA systems.
• Design, build, and optimize distributed systems with millions of requests/day.
• Write high-quality production code; build prototypes and reference implementations.
• Lead performance tuning and deep technical investigations.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, Ops, and ML on system design and feasibility.
• Influence engineering standards through design reviews and technical direction.
• Improve AWS/Terraform infrastructure, CI/CD (CircleCI), and observability (Datadog).
• Architect pipelines across Airflow, Spark, Redshift, S3, dbt, and DMS.
• Help fill-in technical documentation gaps actively and maintain technical writing standards.

Requirements

• Strong command of large-scale architecture, DDD, bounded contexts, and API contracts.
• 10+ years building complex, high-traffic distributed systems.
• Experienced with JVM-based languages (Java/Scala), along with Node.js & TypeScript.
• Comfortable collaborating to align data flows, API surfaces, state management, and performance expectations.
• Strong AWS knowledge (RDS, Redshift, S3, ECS, VPC) with proficiency in Terraform.
• Familiar with large-scale data pipelines (Airflow, Spark, dbt, DMS).
• Influences through architectural clarity and hands-on problem solving.

Benefits

• Experience in food delivery, logistics, or mobility products is a plus.
• Exposure to streaming platforms (Kafka or similar).
• Opportunity to work on experimentation/A/B testing and reliability engineering.