Principal Product Platform Engineer - Smartly

3 days, 21 hours ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Datacom

Datacom

Datacom Group Limited is an Information Technology services company that offers management and consulting, cloud services, ITO, data centre services, custom software development, and payroll services.

Diversified Telecommunication Services
5K-10K
Founded 1965

Description

  • Own end-to-end technology outcomes and architecture within a major platform domain.
  • Co-author platform strategy with the engineering lead and make architectural decisions relied on by other teams.
  • Design and operate shared services, identity foundations, developer tooling, and reliability standards across the engineering organization.
  • Run design reviews and provide a second pair of eyes on architecture decisions across the company.
  • Mentor engineers through 1:1s, pairing, training, and guidance on harder technical problems.
  • Build automation and platform improvements such as release process automation, developer machine setup, and internal tooling.
  • Work on modernizing the monolith, including clean architecture upgrades and internal structure improvements.
  • Help shape shared AI tooling and agent workflows so teams can work faster with less human intervention.
  • Write architecture decisions, design docs, prompts, and post-incident learnings to support alignment and async collaboration.
  • Drive simplification so the platform becomes smaller, clearer, and more automated over time.

Requirements

  • Experience as a Principal engineer or senior-most engineer on a team, or as a solution architect returning to hands-on engineering.
  • Proven experience making architectural decisions at scale and living with the consequences.
  • Strong application engineering experience in demanding production environments.
  • Ability to help move a codebase toward domain-driven design.
  • Very strong working knowledge of C# and .NET.
  • Working familiarity with Python and TypeScript.
  • Comfort working with a monolith and modernizing it into a modular monolith with better internal structure.
  • Experience moving business logic out of stored procedures and into application code.
  • Ability to evaluate database and cloud technology choices.
  • Strong judgment, taste, vision, context, agency, and ownership.
  • Ability to recognize high-quality AI-generated output and distinguish it from merely acceptable work.
  • Must be comfortable writing design docs and architecture decisions as part of day-to-day work.

Benefits

  • Remote-first role based in New Zealand.
  • Flexible async working practices, including async standups by default.
  • Protected focus time for deep work, with meetings kept purposeful.
  • Regular informal team connection time, including twice-weekly 3 o'clock Smoko.
  • A hands-on manager who emphasizes kindness, empathy, learning, and direct feedback.
  • Deep investment in training, mentoring, and growth opportunities.
  • Opportunity to be sponsored and to sponsor others as you grow in the role.

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