Principal Engineer - Architect
hace 23 horas
Valencia
Sklum Digital & AI is an agentic-native team. We operate as a small, high-leverage group that uses agentic AI workflows to build applications and scale our impact far beyond traditional team sizes — from design and coding to testing, review, and operations. We're looking for a leader who is already fluent in this way of working and can shape it further. Si le interesa solicitar este empleo, por favor, asegúrese de cumplir los siguientes requisitos que se enumeran a continuación. We are looking for a Principal Engineer – Architect to serve as the most senior engineering leader within Sklum Digital & AI, owning the end-to-end architecture of our customer-facing platform — shaping how millions of customers discover, explore, and interact with Sklum across web and mobile. The role spans the full customer-facing stack: the experience layer (React/Next.js and React Native), the integration layer connecting experience to enterprise systems, and the backend services that power it. This is a builder role — equally comfortable setting a multi-year technical vision and jumping into the codebase to prototype, review, or unblock. What you'll be doing • Own the end-to-end architecture of Sklum's customer-facing platform across web and mobile, • Define the target architecture connecting experience, integration, and backend into a coherent, scalable whole, • Establish architectural standards and guardrails that let teams move fast without accruing unsustainable debt, • Make build-vs-buy decisions and design how external systems are extended to fit Sklum's needs Hands-On Technical Leadership • Write production code, prototype new capabilities, and contribute to critical paths when required, • Drive technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture decision records (ADRs) across teams, • Identify and resolve performance, scalability, reliability, and security bottlenecks across the platform Agentic-Native Ways of Working • Champion and evolve the agentic-native operating model — define the architecture, tooling, and guardrails that allow agentic workflows to safely contribute to design, coding, testing, and operations, • Set standards for human-in-the-loop oversight and security when agentic systems produce production artifacts, • Continuously identify where agentic workflows can replace or augment traditional engineering tasks Cross-Functional & Distributed Leadership • Partner with product, design, data, marketing, and operations to align the technical roadmap with business priorities, • Translate business goals into technical strategy — and technical trade-offs into clear business language for executive stakeholders, • Coach engineers across seniority levels and elevate the technical craft of the organisation, • Lead effectively across cultures, locations, and time zones in a distributed, async-first environment Integration with Operational Systems • Define how the customer-facing platform integrates with Sklum's operational backbone: ERP, CRM, PIM, CMS, and compensation management systems, • Ensure data, identity, catalog, pricing, order, and content flows are consistent and observable across the customer journey What we'd like to see • 12+ years of software engineering, with significant time in architect or principal-level roles on customer-facing digital products, • Proven track record architecting end-to-end web and mobile experiences, with particular depth in mobile, • Deep, hands-on expertise with React, Next.js, and React Native — including performance, rendering strategies, and production-grade patterns, • Strong integration architecture background: REST/GraphQL APIs, event-driven patterns, API gateways, BFF patterns, and service orchestration, • Solid experience designing and operating backend services at scale — data stores, caching, observability, • Hands-on experience working agentic-native — using coding agents and autonomous workflows as a core part of how you build software, not as an experiment, • Demonstrated leadership across multiple teams, seniority levels, and functions; able to bridge deep technical judgment with business understanding, • Experience in e-commerce, marketplace, retail, or consumer-facing digital platforms, ideally at international scale, • Working knowledge of operational systems surrounding a customer platform: ERP, CRM, PIM, CMS, • Strong written and verbal communication in English; working proficiency in Spanish Strong plus: exposure to AI/ML-driven customer experiences (personalisation, search, recommendations); cloud-native architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure); track record mentoring senior engineers Why Sklum Digital & AI You will be the most senior engineering voice in a greenfield subsidiary — architectural decisions unconstrained by legacy systems, inherited debt, or committees. You'll set the technical foundation of a platform being built from scratch, on a team where agentic-native ways of working are a first-class operating principle, not a future aspiration. xcskxlj Sklum is PE-backed, profitable, and scaling — what you build here will run at real consumer scale. #J-18808-Ljbffr