Petal

Software Engineer

• Own the technical vision and strategy for the platform, ensuring architectural decisions align with business goals and enables lines of solutions to drive long-term value for the customers.
• Oversee 3-5 Architects across multiple teams, providing strategic guidance, mentorship, and ensuring architectural coherence.
• Participate in the Technological Leadership Team, collaborating with fellow Principal Developers to drive enterprise-wide architecture, establish technical standards, and make major technology decisions.
• Define and enforce technical standards including coding practices, language choices, architectural patterns, and technology selections that ensure quality, maintainability, and scalability.
• Ensure enterprise-wide system compatibility, working across solution lines to guarantee that systems integrate seamlessly and maintain architectural coherence at the organizational level.
• Reducing technical debt by ensuring we plan the transition from our old platform to the new platform, and reducing dependencies on non-necessary third parties.
• Work hand-in-hand with Architects to ensure planning flows smoothly, remains coherent, and is future-proof, providing the strategic context and constraints within which they operate.
• Hold accountability for technical outcomes, ensuring the platform is complete, performant, cost-efficient, meets quality standards and enables teams.
• Balance strategic thinking with technical depth, maintaining a 70/30 split between high-level strategy and staying current with technical realities.
• Facilitate collaborative decision-making across teams, ensuring that decisions consider all relevant stakeholders while maintaining clear ownership and accountability.
• Evaluate and mitigate technical risks at the enterprise level, identifying potential issues before they impact delivery and ensuring architectural decisions support scalability.
• Partner with CPTO and senior leadership to align technical strategy with business objectives, communicate technical trade-offs, and influence product roadmap decisions.
• Mentor and develop Architects, helping them grow their strategic thinking, enterprise perspective, and leadership capabilities.
• Stay ahead of technology trends, evaluating emerging technologies and practices that could benefit Petal's platform and competitive position.

Principal Developer – Platform