Coatesgroup

Principal Engineer

Chicago, IL · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$189kDetected 166 days ago

CI/CDRecruitingLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

And while we've already done a lot of work we're proud of, we're just getting started!
Coates Group has the values of a family-owned business and the innovative spirit of a start-up, both which fuel our purpose - Creating Connections.
The Principal Engineer provides technical leadership by shaping architectural direction, guiding critical engineering decisions, and ensuring technology platforms evolve in a scalable, resilient, and strategically aligned way.

Leads the design of large-scale, distributed, and mission-critical systems across teams
Provides architectural governance through design reviews, decision records, and reference implementations.
Sets expectations for scalability, performance, resilience, security, and reliability in system design.
Leads root-cause analysis for major incidents, ensuring systemic fixes and sustainable outcomes.
Mentors senior engineers and technical leaders to build architectural judgement and systems thinking.
Raises the technical bar through exemplary design quality, documentation, and decision-making.

12+ years of experience in software engineering, including significant time working on large-scale, complex, or mission-critical systems
Proven experience designing & evolving architectures across multiple teams, products, or platforms
Track record of influencing technical direction beyond a single team or domain
Experience operating at senior stakeholder level, communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Demonstrated success leading or shaping major system transformations, platform initiatives, or modernization efforts
Hands-on experience in modern engineering practices (e.g., cloud-native systems, distributed architectures, CI/CD, reliability engineering, security-by-design, AI)

The benefits include an annual market competitive bonus program and our "Thrive Program" which includes a suite of flexible work options because we're strong believers that you should never miss an important life or work moment.

Platform Health, Risk & Sustainability ( Owns the long-term health and resilience of critical platforms by proactively addressing systemic risk and technical debt)

Be Part of Our Next Chapter For over almost 60 years, our solutions have enabled impactful connections between some of the world's leading brands and their customers.
We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.
We are curious, charismatic, authentic and we value and leverage the diversity of our crew.
We are imaginers, kindness enthusiasts, experts, creators, thinkers, challengers, collaborators and over-achievers.
And together, as a Crew, we are revolutionizing the way the world's leading brands leverage technology to drive the best customer experiences.

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