Principal Engineer / Architect designing Azure cloud - native applications, data platforms, and distributed systems at Matrix. Leading technical architecture, hands - on engineering, and enterprise technology strategy.
About the role
- Software development team lead building and modernizing SaaS applications for colleges and universities. Leading engineers, delivery, architecture, and responsible AI-assisted development.
Responsibilities
- Lead a small Scrum team of approximately 4–7 engineers
- Build, modernize, and support enterprise SaaS applications using agentic development processes
- Lead team people, technology, and delivery while remaining hands-on in software development
- Conduct 1:1s, provide coaching and feedback, and support career development
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and promote effective Agile practices
- Partner with Product and QA to refine work, define acceptance criteria, and align delivery with priorities
- Manage team capacity, commitments, risks, dependencies, and release milestones
- Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Provide technical direction and lead design and architectural decisions
- Perform design, coding, code reviews, testing, debugging, refactoring, and documentation
- Guide modernization efforts and promote sound engineering practices
- Champion CI/CD, automated testing, observability, code quality, and technical debt reduction
- Partner with Architecture, DevOps, Systems, and Security to build secure, scalable, reliable solutions
- Lead adoption of agentic development practices
- Use AI coding agents across planning, development, testing, debugging, refactoring, code review, and documentation
- Establish standards for reviewing, testing, securing, and validating AI-generated code
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and delivery through agentic development
- Communicate technical decisions, delivery status, risks, and tradeoffs to stakeholders
- Contribute to broader Engineering practices and standards
Requirements
- 8–10 years of professional software development experience
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, or team leadership experience
- Strong hands-on software development background
- Experience with enterprise applications, SaaS, microservices, or distributed systems
- Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, databases, SDLC, CI/CD, testing, and production support
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and facilitating Scrum ceremonies
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- Strong sense of ownership and drive to continuously learn and improve
- Experience using AI coding agents or other agentic development tools
- Understanding of how to apply AI coding agents responsibly and effectively
- Experience with technologies such as Java/Spring Boot, React/TypeScript, relational databases, REST APIs, event-driven systems, AWS, CI/CD, and automated testing is beneficial
- Commitment to or eligibility for an inclusive workplace; accommodations available for candidates with disabilities
Benefits
- Equal opportunity workplace
- Disability accommodations during the interview process
- Salary range targets for new hires in the US and Canada (specific range not provided)
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