Principal Software Engineer

🕒 August 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Gitwit

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11 - 50 employees

🤝 B2B

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

B2B • Marketing • Consulting

Gitwit is a consultancy, product development shop, and marketing agency rolled into one, with an in-house venture studio named 19days. The company focuses on discovering consumer insights, concepting and launching new ventures, designing branding and collateral, building mobile apps and websites, and producing videos. Gitwit aims to build, launch, and transform brands and digital products that address customer challenges, collaborating with clients to enhance brand identities and create user-friendly products.

📋 Description

• Shape products from the beginning by defining what should be built, delayed, or cut • Build from zero and ship quickly from concept to prototype to production • Deliver products that reach users immediately and generate learning • Make foundational decisions about tools, architecture, and technical tradeoffs • Learn directly from users, pressure-test assumptions, and adapt to changing signals • Evaluate usefulness, usability, differentiation, and economic soundness alongside technical feasibility • Operate in small teams with minimal process and rapid daily progress • Help determine whether opportunities become features, products, or companies • Collaborate with engineering, design, product, research, and venture leadership • Contribute to multiple AI-native ventures within the venture studio

🎯 Requirements

• Meaningful zero-to-one engineering experience • Experience leading major technical initiatives and shaping engineering strategy • Experience building modern full-stack web products • TypeScript across the stack • React-based frontends • Node.js backend services • PostgreSQL and cloud-native infrastructure • Experience with foundation model APIs, including OpenAI and Anthropic • Knowledge of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool calling, agent workflows, and evaluation • Strong architectural and tooling judgment • Ability to work effectively in ambiguity and make product, technical, and execution decisions • Ability to overlap with core Central Time working hours • Willingness to travel occasionally for planning sessions, venture work, or team gatherings • Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Meaningful equity in every venture the studio builds • 8 weeks off per year: 5 weeks vacation + 3 weeks paid holidays • Excellent health, vision, and dental insurance, with 99% of employee premiums paid • 401(k) with 4% match • Life insurance • Paid parental leave • Cell phone reimbursement • High-trust, high-autonomy culture • The chance to work on multiple high-impact ventures each year • Remote-first collaboration with occasional in-person team gatherings