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Lead / Principal Engineer - Full Stack
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Principal Consultant at Sahaj Software, a customer-facing consulting and technical delivery role framing business problems, shaping technical approaches, and staying hands-on through delivery in small, self-managing teams.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Help customers find the right problem before jumping to a solution.
- Facilitate discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and technical workshops.
- Translate business goals into a technology strategy and an execution plan.
- Stay hands-on; contribute directly to design, architecture, implementation, and review.
- Make pragmatic calls balancing business needs, engineering quality, and delivery timelines.
- Guide teams to build scalable, resilient, secure systems and the practices that keep them that way.
- Act as a trusted advisor on technology and investment decisions; assessments, due diligence, advisory.
- Build trust and alignment across Sahaj and customer teams.
- Converge competing priorities into a path forward.
- Communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Shape new work through discovery and proposals; mentor others and raise the bar as you go.
- Operate across technology domains: distributed systems, data engineering, AI & agentic systems, DevOps/SRE.
What we're looking for
- Demonstrable building software systems in complex environments.
- Strong engineering fundamentals; expert in at least one language, ideally polyglot.
- Hands-on experience designing and delivering distributed systems at scale.
- Deep grasp of architecture, system design, and engineering trade-offs.
- Direct experience working with customers and business stakeholders.
Benefits
- Unlimited leaves
- Life insurance & private health insurance
- No hierarchy
- Open Salaries
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About Sahajsoftware
A different kind of organisation
High trust, transparency, and autonomy; small teams, high ownership, flat structures; radical compensation transparency; sense of ownership in collective success; work with exceptional people who deeply care about their craft.
Key facts
- High trust, transparency, and autonomy
- Small teams, high ownership, flat structures
- Radical compensation transparency
- Sense of ownership in collective success
- Work with exceptional people who deeply care about their craft
What they value
- Trust
- Respect
- Transparency