Principal Software Engineer - Subscription & Paywall Platforms
$240,000–$290,000 year
HybridPrinceton, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and long-term roadmap for subscription, entitlement, identity, billing, and paywall platforms supporting both consumer and enterprise customers. Lead the design and delivery of scalable full-stack solutions, influencing technical direction across multiple teams while making architectural decisions that improve reliability, performance, security, and developer productivity. Act as a senior technical advisor and mentor, raising engineering standards through design reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on leadership in solving the organization's most complex engineering challenges. Serve as the technical escalation point for the organization's most complex production challenges, rapidly diagnosing cross-system issues and coordinating solutions across multiple engineering teams and platforms. Own the end-to-end delivery of high-impact platform investments, maintaining a hands-on role in architecture, coding, implementation, and operational readiness from inception through successful production launch and adoption.
Required Qualifications
- At least 12 years' professional software engineering experience
- Experience in digital media, publishing, SaaS, streaming, e-commerce, or other subscription-driven businesses which included paywall management systems
- Deep expertise in full-stack software development, including modern front-end technologies (React, Angular, TypeScript, or similar), NodeJS, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, SQL/NoSQL Databases and cloud-native architectures
- Proven experience building and operating subscription management, paywall, entitlement, identity, account, or recurring revenue platforms at scale
- Experience applying AI and machine learning to subscription businesses
- Strong background in software architecture, microservices, event-driven systems, API design, data architecture, cloud platforms, and engineering practices supporting high-availability production environments
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy, align multiple engineering teams, and successfully lead cross-functional initiatives
- Experience supporting large-scale subscription, entitlement, identity, or paywall platforms in production
- Demonstrated ability to independently own the delivery of complex platform capabilities from technical design through production launch
- Experience with experimentation platforms, personalization systems, pricing optimization, customer lifecycle management, or enterprise licensing and access management solutions
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