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Intuitive.ai · 1 day ago

Principal Software Engineer & Team Lead

Intuitive.ai is an innovation-led engineering company that delivers business outcomes for enterprises globally. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer & Team Lead to build an infrastructure management platform from scratch, focusing on hands-on coding and technical leadership while ensuring system reliability and performance.

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Hiring Manager
Mitesh Kumar
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Responsibilities

Own architecture and system design for core platform services, ensuring they meet reliability, security, compliance, and performance requirements
Lead end-to-end delivery of critical platform capabilities, from technical discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing improvements
Drive technical excellence in the codebase, setting standards for code quality, testing, performance, and observability, and ensuring they are adopted across the team
Mentor and grow senior engineers, providing clear technical direction, constructive feedback, and opportunities for ownership
Collaborate with product, platform, and security leaders to translate business needs into technical roadmaps, and make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, safety, and maintainability
Continuously improve platform operability, including deployment strategies, telemetry and alerting, incident response practices, and post-incident learning
Identify and mitigate technical risks, proactively addressing scaling, reliability, and security concerns before they impact customers

Qualification

TypeScriptNext.jsGoAPI designCloud platformsDistributed systemsInfrastructure automationMentoring engineersTestingPerformance engineeringObservability

Required

10+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in senior/staff/principal roles shipping production systems
Expert-level TypeScript proficiency—you can build complex, type-safe applications and reason deeply about the type system
Expert-level Next.js experience building production full-stack applications with SSR, API routes, and modern React patterns
Strong Go experience for backend services, CLIs, and systems-level tooling
Deep expertise in API design—RESTful APIs, versioning, error handling, and building interfaces developers love to use
Experience building control planes, reconciliation loops, or state machines for infrastructure automation
Strong understanding of distributed systems principles and how to design for eventual consistency and failure
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools
Proven ability to own and deliver complex systems end-to-end, from design through production operation
Track record of mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and raising the bar for code quality
Experience building developer tools, SDKs, or CLIs that other engineers depend on
Strong opinions on testing, observability, and building systems that are easy to debug and operate

Preferred

Contributions to open-source infrastructure or developer tooling projects
Experience building multi-tenant platforms with tenant isolation and resource management
Deep PostgreSQL experience—schema design, query optimization, and handling high-write workloads
Background with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, NATS, etc.)
Experience designing secure systems with RBAC, secrets management, and compliance requirements
Performance engineering skills—profiling and optimizing Go and TypeScript applications
Prior experience at infrastructure or developer tools companies

Company

Intuitive.ai

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Intuitive.ai | Engineering Breakthroughs Intuitive.ai is an AI-first innovation and engineering company helping enterprises transform with confidence.

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (2)
2024 (5)
2023 (4)
2022 (2)
2021 (2)
2020 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Jay Modh
Founder & CEO
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