Principal Software Engineer

Let’s Tango! Where Innovation Meets Impact.

At Tango Analytics, we’re all about helping businesses make smarter decisions through powerful technology, insightful data, and a whole lot of collaboration. Whether you're a creative thinker, a strategic planner, a tech wizard, or a customer champion, there's a place for you on our team. We believe work should be meaningful and fun - so if you're ready to make a difference while enjoying the journey, come join us and let's Tango!

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our dynamic and growing Engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:

Own architecture across product and platform

• Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards.

• Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long-term simplicity, maintainability, and performance.

• Identify systemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross-team execution.

Introduce new technologies and best practices

• Evaluate and introduce new technologies responsibly pilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable.

• Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates.

• Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs.

Solve the hardest cross-team problems

• Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges.

• Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable.

• Help teams debug and resolve high-severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails.

Global cloud and regulated environment leadership

• Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi-region strategy, DR, availability, and operability).

• Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance.

Mentor and coach across the organization

• Mentor engineers across teams; coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment.
• Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post-incident reviews, and hands-on design workshops.