Principal Engineer
Location: India
Department: Engineering
Are you looking for an opportunity to contribute to a high-energy, dynamic, and fast-paced organization? Are you interested in joining a team where you can contribute to building the fun, people-centric, culture and brand? Then you’re in the right place!
Litmos develops eLearning solutions for top-performing companies. An established leader in the market since 2007, Litmos solutions include an easy-to-use LMS platform, a comprehensive learning content library, services to support success, and integrations with top workflow tools. Thousands of companies trust Litmos to create, curate, and connect learning to employees, customers, and partners. The solutions are used by more than 30 million people in 150 countries, across 35 languages. Find more information at www.litmos.com.
About the Role
We are looking for a Principal Engineer, Delivery & Architecture to serve as a senior technical leader within our Pune office.
You will work across multiple Agile teams (Scrum and ShapeUp), partnering with Technical Owners, Product Owners, and senior engineers to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across the platform. This role is both hands-on and advisory, raising the bar on architecture, delivery practices, and engineering quality across teams.
What You’ll Do
- Provide architectural guidance across teams, ensuring systems are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with company standards
- Partner with Technical Owners to coach and guide design decisions, while reinforcing architectural consistency
- Raise the bar on engineering quality by influencing design, code review practices, and system thinking
- Identify cross-team technical risks, dependencies, and systemic issues, and drive resolution
- Drive consistency in delivery practices across teams, including CI/CD ownership, testing strategy, and release quality
- Participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and critical implementation decisions
- Support the evolution of Agile practices (Scrum and ShapeUp) to improve delivery outcomes
- Act as a senior on-the-ground technical leader in Pune, helping scale engineering culture and capability
- Collaborate with the database team to ensure data models, stored procedures, and queries are performant and scalable
AI-Driven Engineering Expectations
- Establish patterns for AI-assisted design, implementation, and code review
- Ensure engineers use AI tools (e.g., Claude) effectively while maintaining ownership of outcomes
- Identify opportunities to improve productivity, quality, and consistency through AI-assisted workflows
- Coach teams on when AI accelerates work, and when deeper engineering rigor is required
What We’re Looking For
Required
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including senior or principal-level responsibilities
- Strong hands-on experience with C#, React, and SQL Server
- Experience designing and building microservices and distributed systems
- Experience working in Azure environments, including CI/CD ownership (Azure DevOps)
- Proven ability to influence engineering practices across multiple teams without direct authority
- Strong understanding of system design, scalability, performance, and reliability
- Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum and/or ShapeUp)
- Strong communication skills across distributed teams (India, US, UK, AU)
Preferred
- Experience working in platform-oriented or multi-team environments
- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows
- Experience improving engineering standards, patterns, and delivery consistency across teams
Salary Range: ₹40,00,000 to ₹50,00,000 plus 20% bonus
As a learning company we believe in the potential of everyone; if you don't have experience in all the details mentioned in this job post, then we still encourage you to apply and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
We are an equal opportunity workplace employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
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