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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Lorikeet Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Design of User Interfaces, Python (Programming Language), TypeScript, ReactJS, AI Coding Agents, Agentic-AI, NestJS
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/principal-software-engineer-lorikeet-10406454

## About the Role

Our stack is TypeScript, React/Remix, PrismaORM, NestJS, and some Python. Knowledge of the stack is nice; we know great engineers pick things up fast., * Have 10+ years of experience shipping software, including time as a staff- or principal-level engineer at a company with high engineering standards

 * Have set the technical direction for a product or platform and lived with the consequences - you can tell us what you'd do differently
 * Have led ambiguous, high-stakes projects from blank page to production, across the stack
 * Make other engineers better through design reviews, mentorship, and the example you set in your own code
 * Use coding agents as a core part of how you build - not just as autocomplete, but as a real development workflow - and have opinions on how teams should use them
 * Want to be early: real scope, real ownership, and real upside at a fast-moving company

## Description

We're hiring a Principal Engineer for our New York office, which opened this summer. You'll work alongside our other principals to set technical direction for the company.

We're defining what AI-first product development looks like in practice: the UI/UX, the capabilities, the data models, and the systems underneath them. It's a wide open problem space, and you'll be one of the people deciding which problems matter most and how we solve them.

In practice, that means you'll:

 * Set technical direction. Own the architecture for major parts of our product and make the calls that shape the platform for years to come - then write the code to back them up.
 * Take on our hardest problems. The ambiguous, high-stakes, cross-cutting work: reliability at millions-of-tickets scale, evaluation and quality systems for AI agents, and the foundations other engineers build on.
 * Define how we build with AI. Coding agents are a core part of our workflow. You'll design the tooling, guardrails, and feedback loops that make them effective across the team - and bring the judgment to know when output is ready to ship and when it isn't.

This is a hands-on role. You'll spend most of your time building, and you'll lead through the quality of your thinking and your work rather than through a reporting line.