Principal Engineer – Real-time Live Video Commerce

About the role

Terrific is looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the technical direction of its real‑time live‑shopping platform serving brands across Latin America and beyond. This senior individual contributor will own end‑to‑end architecture, mentor engineers and ship high‑impact features while ensuring 24/7 availability and performance.

Key responsibilities

• Define and evolve the platform architecture across backend, frontend, data, AI and real‑time streaming components.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, security and operational excellence.
• Design, develop and ship new services from database to UI, handling live video reliability, real‑time engagement and commerce integrations.
• Mentor and grow the technical depth of the engineering team.
• Collaborate with product, design and data teams on experimentation, A/B testing and feature rollout.
• Optimize for global, 24/7 operation, managing uptime, latency, cost and graceful degradation during peak events.

Required profile

• Extensive experience building large‑scale, high‑availability SaaS platforms.
• Strong hands‑on coding ability and a track record of delivering complex, performance‑critical systems.
• Proven leadership in mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence.
• Comfort working in a fast‑paced, cross‑functional environment.

Required skills

• React
• Angular
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Firebase
• Firestore
• Cloud Functions
• BigQuery
• Pub/Sub
• AI/ML integration