Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer - AI-Accelerated Product Development. Responsible for leading complex technical initiatives and driving architectural decisions. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and ensure the delivery of robust, scalable, and high-quality software solutions. Lead the design, development, and implementation of highly complex, large-scale distributed software systems and features, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance. Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions, evaluating emerging technologies and recommending cloud-native, microservices-based solutions. Architect and integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions into production-grade, multi-tenant software systems. Design and implement microservices-based, event-driven, and service-oriented architectures, reduce operational cost, and increase system resilience. Provide technical leadership and mentorship. Establish engineering standards for quality, observability, and operational excellence. Requires Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field plus 5 years of experience in software development or related occupation and background in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed software systems. Ability to design and implement cloud-native architectures on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ability to design and deliver microservices-based and event-driven software architectures. Background in architecting and integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions into production software systems, including applied machine learning and computer vision, and foundation-model integration (such as Amazon Bedrock). Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks and understanding of software architecture patterns, including Python and FastAPI for backend and API development and React and modern JavaScript / TypeScript for front-end delivery. Knowledge of data and storage technologies, including SQL and Snowflake, relational and NoSQL databases, and data pipelines and streaming for large-scale, high-volume processing. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code, and of monitoring, logging, and observability tooling for production reliability. Ability to translate complex and ambiguous business problems into scalable, reliable, and secure technical solutions. Worksite: 1441 W Innovation Way, Suite 500, Lehi UT 84043 and Home Office combination. Resume to: Pattern, Inc., Attn: Makenna Kringlen, 1441 W Innovation Way, #500, Lehi UT 84043.