Principal Engineer (Product Architecture)

TL;DR

Principal Engineer (Product Architecture): Owning end-to-end architecture for a specific product domain within the hirify.global Cloud Platform with an accent on translating complex product requirements into coherent technical designs. Focus on driving architectural trade-offs, defining service boundaries, and ensuring system scalability and reliability within an AI-native development ecosystem.

Location: Office presence or remote options available in Netherlands, Serbia, Germany, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Poland, and Armenia.

Company

hirify.global is a global software development company creating intelligent tools for developers, including integrated development environments and a new AI-native cloud platform.

What you will do

• Drive the end-to-end architecture for a product domain within the Cloud Platform.
• Define service boundaries, domain models, and integration contracts aligned with platform standards.
• Lead key architectural decisions regarding API design, persistence, and performance.
• Collaborate with platform architects and domain owners to align on cross-cutting architectural patterns.
• Support senior and staff engineers in executing architectural designs and reducing technical ambiguity.
• Balance immediate product delivery needs with long-term architectural sustainability.

Requirements

• Strong background in software engineering and complex system design.
• Experience owning architecture at a product or domain level.
• Ability to navigate environments where standards and processes are being defined.
• Proven capability to facilitate architectural decision-making across partner teams.
• Proficiency in reasoning about technical trade-offs in evolving cloud environments.
• Willingness to work within the company's established European operational hubs.

Nice to have

• Experience designing product architectures that integrate with multiple disparate systems.
• Strength in guiding teams toward collaborative architectural solutions.
• Experience with AI-driven or cloud-native development tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Strategic role in a long-term investment project for future software development.
• Collaborative work environment focused on long-term evolution rather than one-off implementations.
• Work on a high-impact, AI-native platform serving as an execution layer for developer workflows.
• Opportunity to define and influence architectural standards for a growing platform.