Principal Engineer โ€“ Full Stack

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Full-time Software Development
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Location
auckland, auckland, New-Zealand
Posted
July 26, 2026

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead development teams through influence โ€“ shaping technical direction, creating clarity, and enabling teams to deliver consistently and with confidence.
  • Architect and champion hexagonal (ports-and-adapters) architecture across the platform โ€“ separating core business logic from infrastructure concerns so the domain stays clean, testable, and adaptable as the business evolves.
  • Lead the evolution of an existing monolithic architecture toward a modern, composable platform โ€“ incrementally decomposing tightly coupled capabilities into well-defined services, reducing coupling at the right pace, and laying the foundations that allow AIโ€‘assisted development to accelerate delivery without compounding technical debt. You will make pragmatic stranglerโ€‘fig decisions, knowing when to extract, when to refactor in place, and how to keep the business running throughout.
  • Define and govern integration contracts between services โ€“ desig...