Principal Software Engineer

Victory Live

Principal Software Engineer at Victory Live, leading engineering direction in live event ticket management systems. Collaborate across teams and drive adoption of best practices in a remote-first culture.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set engineering direction across teams.
Guide decisions on systems, languages, frameworks, and patterns.
Lead our largest, most complex initiatives such as multi-team initiatives and business critical strategic imperatives.
Partner with Architects, the Head of Product Engineering, and the executive team on long-range platform strategy.
Define and evolve best practices across teams.
Drive adoption and improvement, not solely documentation.
Be the org's AI engineering thought leader.
Solve the technical problems no one else can crack.
Develop engineers into stronger team members and contributors.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of cross-team technical leadership at growth-stage or larger companies.
Demonstrated impact on architecture and engineering practice at the org level — not just on a single team.
Deep technical breadth: backend systems, API design, data, infrastructure, and at least one of web/mobile/platform.
Track record of introducing AI/ML or AI-assisted-development tooling into production engineering workflows and measurably improving developer productivity or code quality.
Excellent written communication as your design docs, RFCs, and postmortems should set the standard for the org.
Comfort operating with ambiguity and a bias toward structured execution over analysis paralysis.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A lean team where decisions move fast and your code reaches real fans, often the same week.
Every release has stakes. Every improvement is felt. High expectations, low tolerance for politics, and a culture built on writing well and shipping with care.
We write code that is clean, tested, and maintainable. We build sustainable processes so no one burns out or becomes a single point of failure.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringbackend systemsAPI designdatainfrastructureweb developmentmobile developmentAI/MLAI-assisted development toolingcode quality

Soft Skills

technical leadershipwritten communicationproblem-solvingteam developmentstrategic thinkingadaptabilitycollaborationdecision-makingexecutionbest practices