# Principal Software Engineer

Help us build the "System of Action" that supercharges global manufacturing teams. QAD is entering a high-velocity era to architect the world’s first AI-native, agentic ERP. We are moving beyond legacy "systems of record" to build an autonomous platform where humans and AI work as a tag team to redefine how factories operate. Join us at this pivotal moment to build our next generation platform, lead the next generation of the Adaptive Enterprise and turn global speed into strategy. Ignite Your Future: As an Engineering Manager at QAD, you will lead an agile engineering team responsible for designing, building, and delivering high-quality software. You will combine hands-on technical understanding with people leadership, helping engineers do their best work while delivering meaningful business outcomes. Active use of AI-native development workflows - Cursor, Claude Code, and CodeRabbit or equivalent - is a baseline requirement, not a nice-to-have. We treat AI augmentation as the standard engineering operating model. Leaders are expected to use these tools personally, set norms for their teams, and demonstrate that AI tooling raises the output of their entire squad. Candidates who v

- **Id**: 1424430
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/qad-principal-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-28T11:02:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T10:59:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5531
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: ERP & Business Management Software, Supply Chain & Logistics Software, Manufacturing & Industrial Software

## Company

- **Id**: 6493
- **Name**: QAD
- **Domain**: qad.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/qad>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 31
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 22000
- **Max usd**: 54000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 74

## Technologies

- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-28T23:17:46Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 36
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.792
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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