Principal Software Engineer

🕒 August 28

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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arrivia

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1997

✈️ Travel

🛍️ eCommerce

📣 Marketing

Travel • eCommerce • Marketing

arrivia is a travel company that provides travel loyalty, booking, and marketing solutions targeted at consumer-facing companies. Their mission is to enhance travel experiences for individuals, offering services like cruises and vacation planning to help partners deliver exceptional value and uncover new revenue streams. With a global presence and a dedicated team, arrivia aims to create memorable travel experiences for their members and clients.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction across multiple products and platforms, including AI infrastructure, data platforms, and shared primitives • Personally build components and primitives that increase leverage for other teams • Co-define prompt libraries, MCP server patterns, AI-generated-code quality gates, and human-agent collaboration patterns, and drive adoption • Architect secure, governed Model Context Protocol integrations for internal APIs, data sources, and platform services • Drive build-vs-buy decisions and convergence on strategic standards • Institutionalize prioritization mechanisms, AI launch checklists, and SLOs • Lead high-stakes one-way-door decisions and maintain contingency plans • Guide teams on ROI, focus, and success criteria for domains • Standardize canonical metrics, AI evaluation frameworks, minimum sample sizes, and guardrail dashboards • Co-define responsible-AI guardrails and review processes for high-risk use cases • Modernize legacy systems into scalable, cloud-native, agent-ready services • Define security patterns and partner with Risk, Security, and Compliance teams to safeguard sensitive member data • Mentor staff-level engineers and shape technical-leadership norms across individual contributors • Balance partner requests against long-term member trust and support platforms serving millions of travelers

🎯 Requirements

• 8 to 12 years of full-stack development and architecture experience building web applications and services, including technical leadership beyond a single team • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience • Recent, hands-on track record of personally building and shipping working software in the last year or two • Advanced, hands-on use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, including directing them through larger multi-step work • Strong proficiency in two or more of TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, and C#/.NET • Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, Vue, or Angular • Deep experience with RESTful API design, distributed systems, and microservices at scale • Cloud-native delivery on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including multi-region or hybrid deployments • Hands-on depth with the Model Context Protocol, prompt engineering for code, and AI building blocks such as Azure AI Foundry, RAG, LangChain, GraphRAG, or GraphDB • Production experience with real-time streaming and distributed messaging such as Redis, Kafka, or RabbitMQ • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, advanced CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and modern DevOps or SRE practices • Record of mentoring senior engineers and raising the bar through frameworks and standards • Ability to explain complex AI and architectural ideas simply to executives and non-technical partners

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • Exclusive employee travel rates • Travel discounts through arrivia programs • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) with company participation