Principal Software Engineer

About this role

# Xello is looking for a Principal Engineer \_\_

## Who are you?

As our Principal Engineer, you'll be the visionary architect behind Xello's technological journey. Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering you will be tasked with crafting our long-term tech strategy. Every decision will help ensure we remain transformative and leaders in our space.

Your unique blend of strategic foresight and hands-on execution helps you show our teams how to navigate dynamic challenges with expertise and precision. Collaborating closely with senior leaders, your influence will be pivotal in raising the bar to the highest standards for code quality, architecture, and process.

Join us and champion Xello's transformative technical journey. Your expertise won’t just elevate our platform, it will profoundly impact the futures of students. You will help empower the next generation to plan and achieve their dreams.

Sound exciting to you? Read on!

What you’ll do…

• Define and evolve Xello’s long-term technical roadmap, aligning it with product and business strategy.
• Collaborate closely with the product, design, sales, and client-facing teams to ensure technology decisions support user needs and company growth.
• Set technical direction across teams, guiding architecture toward scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.
• Partner with engineering leaders to lead the evolution of AI in the development lifecycle, establishing practical patterns, guardrails, and workflows that improve velocity, quality, and developer experience while managing risk appropriately.
• Identify and prioritize technical debt, balancing long-term system health with ongoing product delivery.
• Champion continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes in partnership with our DevOps team, ensuring our software solutions are highly available, performant, and secure.
• Collaborate with QA to strengthen our quality strategy, emphasizing a proactive approach to reliability, security, and perf...