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Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Miami, Florida, the company serves manufacturers across more than 100 countries in industries including automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology, industrial equipment, and life sciences.\nThe platform is built on three core pillars: Redzone (frontline empowerment), Adaptive ERP (the intelligent backbone of manufacturing operations), and ChampionAI (Agentic AI purpose-built for manufacturing). Together, these enable manufacturers to achieve measurable productivity, resilience, and growth - in as little as 90 days.\n ABOUT THE ROLE\nThe Senior Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack is a key technical leader responsible for defining and driving the technical strategy across the entire engineering function. You will own complex, high-impact systems, deliver enterprise-scale SaaS products at Champion Pace, and serve as a recognized internal subject matter expert - providing thought leadership to redefine the supply chain through an intelligent, adaptive platform.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nArchitectural Ownership: Design, implement, and lead the development of robust frontend frameworks and backend services, taking end-to-end ownership of critical, cross-functional components.\nTechnical Strategy: Apply deep expertise in highly specialized domains to develop complex systems, contribute to company objectives, and drive creative and effective goal achievement.\nProblem Resolution: Proactively debug, diagnose, and resolve highly complex technical issues and performance bottlenecks across the stack with minimal guidance.\nSystem Design: Apply conceptual thinking to understand advanced technical implications and construct highly scalable system architectures.\nTechnical Mentorship: Act as an internal subject matter expert - mentor senior and principal engineers, lead cross-team code reviews, and establish high standards for quality and performance.\nPolicy & Principles Guidance: Direct the application of existing technical principles and actively guide development of new policies and engineering standards.\nCode Optimization: Translate complex product and technical requirements into clean, efficient, maintainable code; optimize system architecture for scale and performance.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Build formal networks across organizational groups and collaborate closely with Product, QA, and DevOps to deliver world-class SaaS products.\nStrategic Influence: Convey advanced technical concepts and persuade diverse stakeholder audiences to drive cross-organizational alignment and technical adoption.\nFunctional Accountability: Determine methods and procedures on new assignments, taking ultimate responsibility for results that impact the entire engineering function.\nMUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS\n12+ years of professional software development experience (8+ with a Master's; 5+ with a PhD).\nExpert-level proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Node.js, Python, and RESTful APIs.\nDeep experience with microservices, SQL/NoSQL databases, and modern frontend frameworks.\nProven ability to own and drive complex, cross-functional technical architecture end-to-end.\nStrong track record of mentoring senior engineers and leading technical standards across teams.\nDeep understanding of cloud-native architectures, Agile product development, OOP fundamentals, and data structures & algorithms.\nNICE-TO-HAVE\nExperience with agentic or AI-powered platform engineering.\nFamiliarity with manufacturing or supply chain SaaS domains.\nBackground in AI governance, evaluation, and observability.\nLEADERSHIP PROFILE\nThis role operates at the highest individual contributor level - you are a recognized technical authority who shapes engineering direction without formal management. You lead through expertise, influence, and the quality of your decisions. You set the bar for architecture, code quality, and engineering culture across the team.\nKEY SKILLS\nFull Stack Architecture\nJava · Node.js · Python · Frontend Frameworks · Microservices\nCloud-Native Systems\nCloud Architecture · APIs · SQL/NoSQL · Scalability\nTechnical Leadership\nMentorship · Code Reviews · Engineering Standards · Strategy\nProblem Solving\nDebugging · System Design · Performance Optimization · Ownership\nEDUCATION\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.\nMaster's degree in CS or Engineering reduces experience requirement to 8 years (optional).\nPhD in CS or related field reduces experience requirement to 5 years (optional).\n Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.\nOpportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.\nCollaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.\nAn atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.\nCompensation packages based on experience and desired skill set\nAbout QAD:\nQAD | Redzone is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent, adaptive platform that connects people, processes, and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars - Redzone (frontline empowerment), Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone), and Champion AI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) - QAD | Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace, achieving measurable productivity, resilience, and growth in just 90 days.\nQAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions, respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. 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