Principal Engineer – New Initiatives, Founding Platform Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal Engineer leading the development of a new platform at Fulfillment IQ. Focused on technical design, system architecture, and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end technical design and implementation of a new greenfield platform
  • Select technology stack, data models, and architectural patterns
  • Build core services, APIs, workflows, and foundational infrastructure
  • Establish development standards, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering best practices
  • Design systems with scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability in mind
  • Rapidly prototype and validate architectural decisions through real implementations
  • Translate business requirements into robust technical solutions
  • Identify architectural risks early and prevent technical debt accumulation
  • Collaborate with Product and Leadership to align technical execution with roadmap priorities
  • Produce technical documentation and system design artifacts
  • Serve as the primary technical owner for the platform’s early lifecycle

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building cloud-native backend or platform systems
  • Proven experience delivering greenfield products or internal platforms from scratch
  • Strong hands-on experience designing and building distributed systems
  • Experience with modern cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into production-ready systems
  • Strong engineering fundamentals across system design, performance, reliability, and maintainability
  • Comfort operating in high-ownership, low-process, early-stage environments
  • Nice to Have: Experience building workflow engines, orchestration systems, or DAG-based processing platforms
  • Nice to Have: Experience integrating AI/ML or LLM-driven components into production systems
  • Nice to Have: Exposure to logistics, supply chain, fintech, or data-intensive SaaS platforms
  • Nice to Have: Prior experience in founding engineer or early platform team roles

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and dental coverage for you and your family
  • Competitive paid time off and flexible leave policies
  • Retirement savings programs and employer contributions
  • Dedicated learning and development budget
  • Remote and hybrid work options
  • Equipment allowances, internet reimbursements, business travel coverage, and employee stock options (ESOP), where applicable.
  • Team events, meetups, and company offsites

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$175,000 - CA$210,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudDistributed Systems

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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