# Principal Engineer, Populus.ai and Elevate Platform

About IPS Group. Populus.ai and Elevate IPS IPS Group, Inc. is a San Diego-based parking technology company, Level 1 PCl DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliant, whose smart meters, software and mobile products serve cities across North America, the UK and Ireland. IPS Group offers one mobility data platform under two brands: Populus.ai, a stand-alone product for the micromobility market, and Elevate, the same application branded for IPS Group customers. It gives cities one place to manage parking, the curb and shared mobility: parking revenue, occupancy, enforcement, parking sessions, pricing and geographies. The platform runs on Google Cloud and is built in Python on PostgreSQWPostGIS. Job Description: The Principal Engineer is the technical owner of the platform behind Populus.ai and Elevate, combining two roles in one: the platform's architect and its lead hands-on developer. You will set the architecture, write production code every week, and lead a small distributed team of offshore engineers and external development partners. Expect roughly 60-70% hands-on development and 30-400/0 architecture and technical leadership. This is a senior individual contributor role, not a people-manag

- **Id**: 3880186
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ipsgroupinc-principal-engineer-populus-ai-and-elevate-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Diego, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T17:49:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T18:18:35Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-09T18:18:35Z
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7726
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- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Transport Infrastructure, Facilities Management

## Company

- **Id**: 680077
- **Name**: Ipsgroupinc
- **Domain**: ipsgroupinc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ipsgroupinc>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: BambooHR

## Salary

- **Min**: 125000
- **Max**: 160000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 160000

## Technologies

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- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Dependency Injection** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Mapbox GL JS** — Optional: no
- **Pandas** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **SQLAlchemy** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **CDKTF** — Optional: yes
- **Cloudflare** — Optional: yes
- **Cypress** — Optional: yes
- **Firebase** — Optional: yes
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Material UI** — Optional: yes
- **MUI X** — Optional: yes
- **Plotly** — Optional: yes
- **PostGIS** — Optional: yes
- **React Router** — Optional: yes
- **react-map-gl** — Optional: yes
- **Sentry** — Optional: yes
- **Vite** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T17:49:05Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-09T18:18:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 160000
- **Is top pay**: no

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