Senior Principal Engineer

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October 10

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Unusual Ventures

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Finance • Enterprise • SaaS

Unusual Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments, leading from pre-seed to Series A rounds in enterprise software and marketplace startups. The firm actively partners with founders, providing hands-on support in areas such as recruiting, sales, and marketing to enhance their chances of success. Unusual Ventures is known for its comprehensive support model, offering a live academy, tactical content, and expert operator assistance, making it a preferred choice for first-time founders looking for more than just financial backing.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Architectural Leadership: Define and evolve the company’s long-term architectural vision. Provide technical direction that balances innovation, scalability, and maintainability. • System Design and Scalability: Design, implement, and scale distributed systems and core services to handle growth in data, users, and features. • Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering and business teams to align technical roadmaps with business objectives. Act as a trusted advisor to Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers. • Generative AI Initiatives: Lead or contribute to projects leveraging open-source LLMs (e.g., Llama, Mistral, Falcon, or similar): own model integration, fine-tuning, and scalable deployment pipelines. • Technical Excellence: Establish best practices for architecture reviews, design documentation, and system observability to ensure optimal performance and reliability. Drive adoption of modern development frameworks and standards. • Hands-on Development: Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code. Contribute directly to core systems and frameworks that enable teams to move faster and deliver higher-quality software. • Mentorship & Influence: Coach senior engineers and influence decision-making across teams through technical reviews, design sessions, and hands-on prototyping. • Execution and Delivery: Work closely with leadership and stakeholders to turn complex ideas into reliable, production-ready systems that deliver measurable business impact.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4+ years in principal or staff-plus roles. • Proven track record designing, implementing, and scaling distributed systems or platforms. • Experience driving architectural initiatives across multiple teams and domains. • Deep understanding of backend architectures, data modeling, and system reliability patterns. • Demonstrated success in delivering GenAI or ML-driven applications using open-source LLMs and cloud-native infrastructure. • Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Passion for mentorship, technical leadership, and hands-on coding. • Bonus Qualifications • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture and microservices at scale. • Familiarity with vector databases, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.). • Prior experience in shaping technical strategy within high-growth startups or enterprise environments.