# Principal Software Engineer

About the Role Kurtosys builds the platform that asset and wealth managers use to produce and distribute client-facing reports, marketing materials, and data-driven documents at scale. We're a regulated fintech -- ISO-27001 certified, operating across four global offices, fully hosted on AWS. The engineering team is small, senior, and moving fast. This role sits in Product Engineering. You'll own features end-to-end: from understanding the business problem, through architecture and implementation, to deployment and production monitoring. The work spans front-end (React, TypeScript), back-end services (Node.js, serverless), databases (PostgreSQL, SingleStore), and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Cloudflare). You'll work across all of it -- not because we expect you to be an expert in everything on day one, but because we expect you to be capable of working wherever the problem takes you. What makes this role different from the other senior engineering listings you'll see this week: AI is not a line item on our roadmap. It's how we work. The engineering team uses AI daily -- for architecture, implementation, code review, testing, and delivery. We have AI agents embedded in our workflows,

- **Id**: 3867347
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kurtosys-principal-software-engineer-2>
- **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
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T11:43:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6080
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Custom Software Development, Financial Data & Market Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 1838433
- **Name**: Kurtosys
- **Domain**: kurtosys.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kurtosys>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: BambooHR

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Cloudflare** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **MySQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T12:48:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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