About the Client
Our client is a global leading, end-to-end enterprise volunteer engagement platform powering over 100 million volunteer hours. They exist to connect communities to events and causes they are passionate about. Used by over 3 million volunteers across 26 different countries, their SaaS platform powers mass volunteer programs across the globe for Not-for-Profits, local government, sporting federations, and major events. Our all in one solution helps our clients to recruit, retain, reward and train their volunteers, whilst also ensuring compliance.
About Teamified
Teamified is a talent partner helping companies build exceptional remote teams across IT, software, product, and digital innovation. We collaborate with leading enterprises and fast-
scaling tech businesses worldwide to help them access world class talent and
accelerate growth. With operations across the globe our mission is to make building high
performing global teams simple, fast, and cost-effective. Teamified has hundreds of clients with more than 200 engineers, testers, product managers,
designers, and technology experts delivering impactful solutions every day.
About The Role
As a Principal Software Engineer at Rosterfy, you are the most senior individual contributor in the engineering team, responsible for setting technical direction while staying deeply hands-on. You work across our two product squads as a force multiplier: designing architecture, pairing on hard problems, and unblocking delivery on critical initiatives. Reporting to the HoE, you connect product strategy to implementation detail, ensuring the client’s v3 (event-driven, domain-driven, AI-augmented) is robust, scalable, and maintainable across our PHP/Laravel backend, Next.js frontend, and AWS/GCP infrastructure. You spend a significant portion of your time building (coding, reviewing, debugging, pairing) while also shaping engineering standards, architecture, and long-term platform evolution. You do not manage people directly; instead, you lead through technical excellence, influence, and mentoring.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the architecture and technical direction for core platform domains used by both squads (e.g. event-driven workflows, modular boundaries, AI capabilities).
- Spend 60–80% of your time hands-on: designing, coding, reviewing, pairing, and debugging in Laravel, Next.js and our cloud environments.
- Lead the technical discovery and delivery of high-impact initiatives, especially those that cross team boundaries or require significant architectural change.
- Define, document, and evangelize architectural principles, coding standards, and patterns for scalable, resilient, observable systems.
- Raise the bar for quality: champion shift-left testing, CI/CD improvements, and production observability; model best practices in test design and validation.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and feedback, helping them own systems end-to-end rather than taking work away.
- Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies (e.g. Vertex AI, GenAI workflows, data pipelines) and guide pragmatic adoption into product and platform.
- Act as a senior engineering voice in roadmap planning, estimation and trade-off decisions, ensuring technical health is represented alongside product goals
- Works across both product squads rather than being embedded in one team, focusing on cross-cutting systems and the hardest technical problems.
- Partners with the Engineering Leadership on long-term architecture and with Tech Leads on execution and engineering practices.
Technical
- 8+ years in software engineering, including experience as a staff/principal engineer or architect in a SaaS company
- Deep expertise in backend engineering with Laravel (Laravel 10+ and PHP 8+) or similar languages, SQL/relational databases, caching, and RESTful APIs
- Strong frontend design and architectural experience with React/Next.js
- Experience working with scalable, secure cloud infrastructure (AWS required, & CGP)
- Familiarity with event-driven or modular architectures and containerized environments (e.g., EKS/Kubernetes)
- Deep understanding of software testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines
- Bonus: experience with Looker, BigQuery, ML pipelines, or distributed system performance tuning
- Bonus: Agent AI Architecture
AI Driven Skills
- Feature delivery velocity (Copilot, Gemini, test automation, scaffolding)
- Building AI-augmented product experiences (LLM API usage, prompt design)
- Coaching others on integrating GenAI into workflows
Character & Mindset
- Resilient and adaptable – You embrace change and help others navigate ambiguity with calm and confidence.
- Proactive problem solver – You identify issues early, take ownership, and push solutions forward without waiting to be asked.
- Clear communicator – You articulate ideas clearly, write well, and listen with intent. You create shared understanding.
- Product-minded – You’re curious about customer needs, ask “why?”, and advocate for solutions that deliver real value.
- Leads through influence – You raise the bar by mentoring others, setting standards, and sharing knowledge — not by authority.
- Documentation-first thinker – You value written clarity, and help your team by documenting decisions, code, and processes.
Shift-Left QA Expectation
- Lead by example in test strategy and validation
- Own test coverage, pipeline health, and regression control
Success Measures
- Enables long-term scalability and stability through architectural design
- Mentors and unblocks engineers across teams, raising overall technical quality
- Drives alignment on technical priorities and engineering direction
- Trusted advisor to Product sharing functional knowledge
- Proactively identifies and resolves system-level challenges
- Supports successful implementation of new platform capabilities (e.g., AI readiness, multi-cloud architecture)
Nice to have:
- Experience with data products like Looker, BigQuery, or analytics pipelines
- Exposure to event-driven systems, asynchronous workflows, or message
- queues (e.g. AWS SQS, Kafka, Pub/Sub)
- Experience with design systems | frontend architecture
- Passionate about product quality and customer experience
- Experience with platform engineering or building shared infrastructure in modular monoliths
- Any exposure to AI driven tooling, systems
Benefits
- Flexibility in work hours and location, with a focus on managing energy rather than time.
- Access to online learning platforms and a budget for professional development
- A collaborative, no-silos environment, encouraging learning and growth across teams
- A dynamic social culture with team lunches, social events, and opportunities for creative input
- Health insurance
- Leave Benefits
- 13th Month Salary
If you possess the required skills and are eager to contribute to our team's success, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Apply now!
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