Principal Software Engineer I

Principal Software Engineer

Take an innovative educational technology organization to the next level by becoming part of our rapidly growing organization. We seek a self-driven, passionate, highly qualified Principal Software Engineer with experience in modern full-stack technologies. As a principal full-stack engineer at Curriculum Associates, you will be a key member of a high-performing team that builds AI experiences and workflows for educators and students.

The impact you'll have:

• You will be part of a rapidly growing Ed-Tech company and will impact educators and students with your contributions to our award-winning K-8 educational software service.
• You will lead high-profile projects and contribute to architectural initiatives.
• You will collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders, including Product and QA, translating product requirements into technical solutions.
• You will design, develop, and deliver innovative solutions that help educators and students.
• You will work closely with your development team members and product owners to refine requirements and deliver solutions.
• You will partner with cross-functional peers on other teams to design and deliver solutions.

Who we're looking for:

• Strong sense of ownership over problems and solutions.
• Demonstrated experience as a team leader, educating, mentoring, and supporting other members of your team to deliver large scale initiatives.
• Proven verbal, written, and presentation skills to document, train, and mentor.
• Hands-on approach to deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of microservices.
• Experience with Python and AWS services.
• Experience with modern Typescript, React, Redux, and frontend build tools.
• Commitment to producing clear, maintainable, and testable code.
• Self-driven exposure to designing, developing, or orchestrating intelligent systems using LLMs, agent-based architectures, or other automation frameworks.

We'd also love to see, though not required:

• Knowledge of RAG concepts like retrieval strategies, ranking algorithms, and building knowledge bases.
• Experience with agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Strands, VoltAgent, etc.).
• Experience with agent evaluation and evaluation metrics.
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Data design and data engineering.
• BE/ Btech with 10 + years of experience with SW architectural engineering
• Educational or Ed-Tech background.

Location: Bangalore