# Principal Software Engineer

Introduction OVERVIEW PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WHAT YOU’LL OWN • Technical direction and architecture across the team, setting the standards, patterns, and technical guardrails our developers build inside of. • Implementation style and stack choices, deciding how we build, what we build with, and when to change either. Making those calls stick. • Platform evolution, making considered, evidence -based decisions about how the platform should grow, and bringing the team along on those decisions. • Technical coherence across squads, making sure the teams aren’t drifting apart architecturally, and that patterns learned in one part of the platform get applied consistently across the rest. • Quality oversight of the team leads’ technical work, acting as a design partner to them and reviewing significant architectural decisions. • Championing test -driven development, code review culture, and the standard of work we’re proud to put our name on. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re hiring a Principal Software Engineer to be the technical authority for our software platform. You’ll report to the Head of Tech and act as the most senior technical voice in the team. You’ll be responsible

- **Id**: 3816264
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/computer-experts-personnel-principal-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T13:57:17Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T13:57:17Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 3
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- **Description chars**: 13773
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4503712
- **Name**: Computer Experts Personnel
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/computer-experts-personnel>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Max**: 150000
- **Currency**: ZAR
- **Period**: month
- **Gross**: yes
- **Usd annual**: 109476

## Technologies

- **Apex** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T16:04:10Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: seen:2, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 109476
- **Is top pay**: no

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