Principal Software Engineer
(Calculated after EPF (12%), Gratuity (4.81%), Professional Tax & New Tax Regime FY 2025-26 deductions)
- Target Role:Principal Software Engineer
- Employer:Swiftly
- Work Mode:REMOTE
- Location:Remote (United States)
- Compensation:USD 220,000 - 228,000 / annual
- Experience:2+ Years
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- Candidate Fee:₹0 (Zero Placement Fee Guarantee)
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About the Role
Swiftly is the AI platform purpose-built for retail, serving retailers, wholesalers, and brands. Swiftly 's AI agents unify data, automate workflows, and power the marketing that drives measurable business growth. Swiftly AI is built on the industry's largest proprietary retail dataset: live transactions, 9 million products, and the closed-loop campaign outcomes of 33,000 stores. Trusted by leading retailers, wholesalers, and hundreds of iconic brands, Swiftly unifies data across the retail ecosystem to accelerate growth and power the connected, personalized experiences that drive lasting shopper loyalty. Position Summary: Swiftly is searching for a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture of our ads and martech platform: the systems that author retail media campaigns, generate creatives and serve ads to shoppers through The Trade Desk. The platform spans a Go ad server built for low-latency bid requests, Python services on Azure Functions for campaign authoring and tenant configuration, Kotlin/Quarkus services we are carving apart, and a shared PostgreSQL schema managed as code. This role will set technical direction across these teams, lead a tenant-by-tenant migration off legacy services without downtime, and stay hands-on in the hardest code. Responsibilities Include: Work with and provide direction to the teams that build Swiftly 's ads and martech platform, including the Go ad server, campaign authoring, the tenant and capability registry, creative generation and personalized-ad services Architect, code and maintain large scale distributed systems with complex requirements Lead the incremental migration of campaign authoring and The Trade Desk write path off a Kotlin/Quarkus service, one retailer at a time, using per-tenant ownership switches, database write guards and shadow-diff dry runs to cut over safely Own the performance and reliability of the Go ad server against strict SLOs (p50 at or under 40 ms, p99 at or under 1 s, 2 s hard
Requirements & Qualifications
- Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.
Perks & Benefits
- Official mentor support
- verified hiring timeline
- and career progression.
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