Principal Software Engineer

Company: Xymbia Inc.

Client: Zones

Location: Islamabad, Pakistan

Work arrangement: Hybrid — two days in the office each week, with the remaining days remote

Technology stack: Go (Golang), React, PostgreSQL, StarRocks, and Kafka

About the role

Xymbia Inc. is hiring a Principal Engineer to lead a small engineering team supporting our client, Zones, on the Zones Digital Platform.

You will combine technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and people management. You’ll shape the platform’s architecture, guide delivery, and manage a team of lead engineers and software engineers while staying close to the code.

What you’ll do

• Manage, mentor, and develop a small team of lead engineers and software engineers.
• Own technical direction and architectural decisions across backend services, frontend applications, and data systems.
• Contribute to critical implementations, design reviews, code reviews, and complex troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with Zones stakeholders to translate business priorities into technical plans and delivery milestones.
• Build and improve services using Go, interfaces using React, and data capabilities using PostgreSQL, StarRocks, and Kafka.
• Establish engineering practices for testing, security, observability, performance, and reliability.
• Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction and long-term platform health.
• Support hiring and build a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What you’ll bring

• Experience leading the architecture and delivery of complex production software.
• Strong hands-on backend engineering skills, ideally in Go, with the ability to guide full-stack development.
• Experience managing and mentoring engineers, including senior or lead engineers.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, API design, relational databases, and event-driven architecture.
• Practical experience with PostgreSQL and Kafka, or comparable technologies.
• Familiarity with React and modern frontend development.
• Sound judgment in balancing technical tradeoffs, business priorities, and delivery risks.
• Clear communication skills and experience collaborating directly with client stakeholders.

Additional experience we value

• StarRocks or other analytical databases and real-time analytics platforms.
• Improving platform scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Automated delivery pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and production observability.
• Delivering software across distributed teams and client environments.