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Our platform connects audiences and shop presenters in real time - streaming to global brands, retailers, and media groups across Latin America, Europe, and Israel - and turns live moments into measurable sales.\nWe’re hiring a Principal Engineer to set the technical direction of the platform, raise the engineering bar, and help us scale a 24/7, high-availability, AI-powered product to the next order of magnitude.\nThe Role\nThe Principal Engineer is our most senior individual contributor - a force-multiplier across the entire engineering organization. You’ll own architecture and technical strategy for Terrific’s platform end-to-end: real-time live video commerce, AI/ML-driven personalization, commerce integrations, data infrastructure, and everything in between.\nYou’ll stay deeply hands-on - writing code, reviewing designs, and shipping critical systems - while also shaping how the team builds: standards, patterns, performance, and reliability. 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