Principal Engineer

Job description

Remote - LATAM Ryz Labs is seeking a **Principal Engineer** to lead the technical evolution and modernization of software applications and digital platforms. Operating at the core of technical strategy, platform architecture, and software craftsmanship, you will be responsible for building scalable, reliable, and high-performing solutions that drive real business growth and transform client outcomes. This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering and architecture leadership role. You will move fluidly between writing code, designing long-term architecture strategies, establishing modern software standards, and empowering engineering teams across the organization. Your success will be measured by standardizing best practices, accelerating productivity, and advancing technical maturity across our global digital ecosystem. **What You Will Do** - **Architecture Strategy & Technical Leadership** - Drive and evangelize architecture for both new innovative solutions and legacy enterprise platforms, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals. - Lead the creation of architecture strategies, frameworks, and governance processes to ensure sound technical investments. - Act as a hands-on lead, writing code to stand up core architecture components and driving their adoption across engineering teams. - Provide thought leadership and guidance on technical feasibility, tech stack selection, and modern implementation approaches. - **Engineering Excellence & Standardization** - Accelerate the adoption of modern software engineering principles, guidelines, re-usable libraries, and frameworks firm-wide. - Standardize and streamline engineering workflows, processes, and tools to maximize delivery efficiency, collaboration, and scalability. - Embed DevSecOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) into everyday development practices. - Partner with product owners and business stakeholders to bring transparency to engineering costs and help establish Service Level Agreements (SLAs). - **Mentorship & Guild Advancement** - Elevate technical maturity across the organization by leading internal engineering communities and guilds. - Mentor engineers and tech leads, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical rigor, and innovation. - Design and identify technical training programs and growth opportunities for team members at all levels. **Required Skills & Experience** - **Experience:** 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Software Architect, or in a similar technical leadership role. - **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - **Hands-on Architecture:** Proven track record of designing multi-tier architectures and writing hands-on code to bootstrap frameworks and drive adoption. - **DevSecOps & Cloud:** Solid experience with DevSecOps principles, deployment automation, modern CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). - **Leadership & Influence:** Strong engineering leadership skills with a proven ability to inspire, motivate, and guide cross-functional technical teams. - **Communication:** Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to articulate complex architectural decisions to both technical teams and business stakeholders. - **Agile & Delivery:** Strong project management foundation using Agile methodologies and modern delivery tools. **Preferred Qualifications** - Prior experience developing software within business consulting, advisory, or enterprise SaaS environments. - Active contributions to open-source software projects or technical communities. - Demonstrated passion for mentoring, uplifting junior team members, and building developer communities. - Track record of building alignment across matrixed and cross-functional teams. **About RYZ Labs:** RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world. Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years. At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion, and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists. **Our values and what to expect:** - Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer. - Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated. - Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility. - Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone who interacts with RYZ with respect. - Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less - Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way. - Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, and our expectations. The status quo is not good enough and never should be.