Principal Engineer - Nova

Iterable is the leading AI-powered customer engagement platform that helps leading brands like Redfin, SeatGeek, Priceline, Calm, and Box create dynamic, individualized experiences at scale. Our platform empowers organizations to activate customer data, design seamless cross-channel interactions, and optimize engagement—all with enterprise-grade security and compliance. Today, nearly 1,200 brands across 50+ countries rely on Iterable to drive growth, deepen customer relationships, and deliver joyful customer experiences.

Our success is powered by extraordinary people who bring our core values—Trust, Growth Mindset, Balance, and Humility—to life. We foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and inclusion, where ideas are valued and individuals are empowered to do their best work. That’s why we’ve been recognized as one of Inc’s Best Workplaces and Fastest Growing Companies, and were recognized on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2022. Notably, Iterable has also been listed on Wealthfront’s Career Launching Companies List and has held a top 10 ranking on the Top 25 Companies Where Women Want to Work.

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The Principal Engineer is a critical, senior leadership role responsible for driving the technical strategy, architectural coherence, and engineering excellence across several key product areas. This role acts as a bridge between high-level business goals and on-the-ground technical execution, ensuring the product is built correctly, efficiently, and with a long-term vision. The Principal Architect is expected to drive technical excellence by balancing immediate execution needs with the long-term health and scalability of the product's architecture, while understanding the business and customer needs.

Key Responsibilities

Architectural Leadership & Strategy

• Serve as the technical authority for multiple core product areas, ensuring all architectural decisions directly support the business objectives for those areas.
• Establish and maintain organization-wide technical standards, architectural patterns, and coding best practices to ensure consistency, security, performance, and maintainability across all teams.
• Support decision making by providing expert architectural guidance and data-driven recommendations to leadership and engineering teams, facilitating timely and sound technical decisions.

Technical Management & Mentorship

• Directly mentor, guide, and lead the technical direction of the Tech Leads and senior engineers within the domains, fostering a high-performance engineering culture.
• Oversee and approve key design documents and high-level architectural proposals, ensuring they adhere to organizational standards and the own building and maintaining a long-term architectural roadmap.
• Act as an escalation point for complex technical challenges, actively supporting teams in overcoming significant architectural hurdles or design issues.

Communication & Vision

• Pull teams up to give them the big picture and let them see connections: Define and communicate the overall architectural vision and strategy to engineering teams, helping them understand how their individual contributions connect to the broader product and business goals.
• Report on roadmap: Regularly report progress, risks, and technical insights related to the architectural roadmap to executive and product leadership

Qualifications

Experience & Technical Skills

• Professional Experience: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years as a hands on architect
• System Design: Proven track record of architecting and delivering complex, high-scale, distributed systems (e.g., Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture) in a cloud environment (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Technical Depth: Deep expertise in our core technology stack: Scala (Java in lieu),