Principal Architect

True ValueHub is an AI-native B2B SaaS solution for manufacturing companies. We help manufacturing companies save costs on direct material procurement. Our AI engine provides visibility into the true cost of manufacturing products and components globally and reduces sourcing cycle time and new product introduction time to market. We provide detailed total landed cost insights for buyers and suppliers and a secure collaboration platform. Our award-winning technology has been rated as a leading solution in our segment.

We are seeking a Principal Architect who is a builder, disrupting the supply chain space. This is a fully hands-on individual contributor role, with 100% focus on direct engineering and architecture. The ideal candidate thrives on writing production-quality code, architecting scalable systems, and solving deep technical challenges, while staying closely engaged with senior stakeholders on technical direction.

Responsibilities:

Technology Architecture and Stack

• Define and implement the company's technical architecture and roadmap in collaboration with the founding team.
• Design scalable, robust, and secure systems to support rapid growth and innovation.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, tools, and platforms to meet business needs.

Hands-On Engineering (100%)

• Contribute production-quality code across the stack - back-end, front-end, and data layers.
• Lead by example in adopting AI-assisted development tooling to accelerate development velocity and code quality.
• Own critical technical deliverables end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring.
• Drive integration of AI capabilities into the product, spanning both agentic workflows (agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, tool-use patterns) and applied AI models (OCR, classification).
• Architect and build core platform components, setting technical standards and best practices through hands-on implementation.

Product Development

• Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate ideas into technical solutions.
• Drive the end-to-end development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and maintenance.
• Ensure timely delivery of features and maintain a high-quality codebase.

Operational Excellence

• Implement best practices for coding, testing, deployment, and system monitoring.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability of systems and processes.
• Manage technical debt and balance short-term deliverables with long-term sustainability.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a technical thought partner to senior leaders, contributing to overall company strategy and decision-making.
• Represent the engineering perspective in cross-functional discussions and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Experience and Education

• 5+ years of hands-on B2B SaaS software development experience in an individual contributor or architect capacity.
• Startup experience is highly desirable.
• Deep experience with all forms of agile development processes.
• Engineering degree is preferred since this is an engineering-focused product.
• Has experience working directly with senior leadership and knowing when and how to manage expectations with scope, schedule, cost.

Technical Expertise

• Deep understanding of modern programming languages, frameworks, and cloud technologies especially Azure.
• Hands-on experience with architecture and full-stack development is a requirement.
• Hands-on proficiency in .NET (back-end microservices), SQL databases, and Python - or appropriate equivalents - is required.
• Hands-on proficiency in Angular (or equivalent modern front-end framework) is required.
• Agentic AI Integrations: Experience building Agentic AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry APIs - including agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, function/tool calling, and multi-agent patterns.
• AI-Assisted Coding Expertise: Demonstrated daily use of AI-assisted coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or OpenAI Codex to accelerate development velocity and improve code quality.

Project Management Skills

• Proven track record of running software engineering projects for leading B2B SaaS products that are utilized by Fortune 500 companies.
• Works closely with the development team members to understand and minimize technical debt without sacrificing velocity.

Result-Oriented

• Strong project management skills with a focus on delivering results in fast-paced environments.
• Believes in development/engineering processes that are pragmatic and tuned to achieve the desired business objectives.

Problem-Solver

• Demonstrated ability to tackle complex technical challenges with innovative solutions.

Passion for Startups

• Eagerness to work in an ambiguous, evolving environment and contribute beyond the technical domain in all aspects of the company.
• Be vested in the success of the company and do-what-it-takes attitude.