Principal Consultant, Software Engineering - MojoTech

About MojoTech

MojoTech is an innovative technology consulting firm that integrates strategy, data, and software engineering to create results-driven, AI-enabled digital products and experiences.

We partner with our clients to discover, define, design, and build tomorrow’s innovations, empowering organizations to unlock future market potential, maximize returns on innovation, and drive transformational change.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal/Senior Principal [Software Engineer/Architect] to lead client engagements across architecture, delivery, and growth.

This role combines deep technical expertise with client leadership and business development. You will work directly with client stakeholders to shape solutions, guide teams through execution, and help grow accounts through trusted relationships and strong outcomes.

Success in this role requires strong technical skills, excellent communication, and the ability to collaborate effectively with distributed teams and U.S.-based clients. You should be comfortable participating in technical discussions, contributing ideas, leading teams, and helping clients make informed technology decisions as well as executing on technical requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Technology & Architecture Leadership

• Design and deliver scalable, maintainable systems across application, data, and AI layers
• Lead development of distributed, cloud-native applications integrating APIs, data platforms, and AI or ML components
• Design systems that incorporate real-time data, event-driven patterns, and intelligent services
• Implement LLM integrations, RAG patterns, and AI-enabled features in production systems
• Ensure systems meet expectations for performance, reliability, and security
• Guide teams toward practical use of modern patterns, including microservices, CI/CD, and DevOps
• Make clear, pragmatic decisions on architecture and trade-offs
• Expertise delivering solutions with Python and TypeScript. Familiarity with other stacks is a bonus.

Client Engagement

• Work directly with client stakeholders to understand problems, define solutions, and align on outcomes
• Lead discovery efforts, technical assessments, and early-stage solution design
• Facilitate working sessions and architecture discussions with both technical and business audiences
• Translate business needs into clear, executable technical approaches
• Build strong relationships that position MojoTech as a trusted partner

Sales & Growth

• Partner with account and sales leads to shape and win new work
• Contribute to proposals, estimates, and solution approaches
• Help identify follow-on opportunities within existing engagements
• Clearly articulate the value of proposed solutions to client stakeholders
• Contribute to reusable approaches and offerings that improve how we sell and deliver

Program & Delivery Leadership

• Lead delivery across one or more engagements, ensuring work stays aligned to goals, timelines, and budget
• Set up lightweight governance, planning, and communication structures that keep teams moving
• Coordinate across engineering, design, product, and data disciplines
• Identify risks early and work with teams to address them
• Maintain a strong focus on delivering working software and measurable outcomes

Team & Practice Leadership

• Mentor engineers and help grow technical leadership across teams
• Set a high standard for code quality, system design, and engineering practices
• Contribute to hiring and building a strong, senior team
• Help evolve internal practices, especially around AI-enabled systems and modern architectures
• Stay hands-on enough to maintain credibility and support the team when needed

Qualifications

You should check many of these boxes:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Deep architectural experience
• Product focused engineering experience
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, distributed environment
• Strength in Python, Typescript and adjacent technologies for building AI/ML applications.
• 10+ years of experience leading and delivering software solutions.
• Track record of client/stakeholder satisfaction.

• Experience integrating data platforms, machine learning, or AI capabilities into applications
• Familiarity with data pipelines, streaming, and data modeling
• Experience working in consulting, agency, or client-service environments
• Exposure to mentoring junior engineers or technical leadership responsibilities
• Contributions to open-source projects, technical blogs, or conference presentations are a plus.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year, you will:

• Build strong relationships with clients and teammates
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable software solutions
• Demonstrate technical ownership and accountability
• Contribute to MojoTech's culture of engineering excellence
• Continue expanding your technical and consulting capabilities

Flexible Working Environment:

We offer a flexible working model, allowing employees to choose between remote work, on-site work in our offices located in Boulder, CO, and Providence, RI, or a hybrid of both. We also welcome candidates based in Phoenix, AZ as we continue to expand our presence in this area.

*This job is remote, but requires you to be located in one of the following states: RI, CO, AZ, CT, FL, MA, MD, ME, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, SC, TN or UT. While the role is remote, preference will be given to candidates within commuting distance to our offices in Boulder, CO or Providence, RI.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, FSA
• 401k with up to 4% match
• Trust-based time off
• Catered lunches when in office
• Time for self-directed, non-client work
• Dog-friendly offices
• Remote or in office (offices in Boulder, CO and Providence, RI)
• Paid conference attendance/yearly education stipend
• Generous family leave policy