# Principal Engineer - Onsite - JHB

ENVIRONMENT: A cutting-edge AgriTech is seeking a visionary and hands-on Principal Engineer to serve as the lead technical authority across their engineering department. In this high-impact role, you will bridge the gap between business strategy and deep technical execution, defining cross-cutting architecture, driving technical governance, and setting engineering standards across all teams. You will tackle their most complex distributed systems challenges, research emerging technologies, and mentor senior talent, ensuring their software architecture scales securely and efficiently alongside their rapid global growth. DUTIES: Technical Strategy & System Architecture: Translate technical vision into a concrete architectural roadmap and engineering standards for their multi-tenant AgTech platform, owning execution across domain teams. Complex Problem Solving: Own the resolution of high-stakes technical challenges, performance bottlenecks, scale limits, and critical cross-system integration points. Cross-Team Governance: Guide and align architecture across multiple domain teams (e.g., Data, Core SaaS, Integrations), ensuring consistent patterns, data models, and API designs. Techno

- **Id**: 4262654
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/datafin-principal-engineer-onsite-jhb>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T09:59:14Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T09:59:14Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5488
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4497034
- **Name**: Datafin
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/datafin>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T15:51:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 8
- **Reasons**: seen:0, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T17:16:00Z

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