[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Masabi logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/06/f2355465-221.png)](https://jobicy.com/company/masabi.md)[Masabi](https://jobicy.com/company/masabi.md) # Principal Engineer – Platform & Data Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/masabi.md)ShareRemote from[Canada](https://jobicy.com/job-region/canada.md)SalaryUndisclosedDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished20 Oct 2026Apply before19 Nov 2026Listing views33Application actions3Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Masabi is seeking a Principal Engineer to set technical direction for its fare-payment platform, with particular ownership of platform and data architecture. The role combines cross-team architectural leadership with hands-on engineering, design reviews, and targeted implementation work. Key challenges include evolving distributed microservices, improving scalability and resilience, and making sound performance and cloud-cost trade-offs. The engineer will guide standards, API governance, technical roadmaps, documentation, and complex technical scoping across the organization. Candidates must be remotely located in Canada within the East Coast timezone. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 4/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a principal-level architecture role requiring deep expertise across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and organizational technical leadership. Success depends on making high-impact trade-offs amid ambiguity while influencing multiple engineering teams. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$185,000US market range (per year)$155k–$220k0$242.00k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. No employer salary was disclosed. The yearly cadence and USD market estimate are inferred from the seniority, full-time employment type, and principal software-engineering scope; these figures are estimates rather than stated compensation. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I would then define a small set of enforceable architectural principles, reference patterns, and decision records, validating them with representative teams before establishing governance that enables rather than blocks delivery. Describe how you would evaluate whether a monolith should be decomposed into microservices. I would assess domain boundaries, deployment coupling, scaling constraints, team ownership, reliability risks, and the operational cost of distributed systems. I would prioritize incremental extraction of high-value, well-bounded capabilities rather than treating microservices as an objective in themselves. How do you make trade-offs among reliability, performance, and cloud cost in a high-scale platform? I use measurable service objectives, workload data, capacity models, and cost visibility to frame the decision. I identify the user and business impact of each option, make assumptions explicit, and choose the simplest design that meets agreed reliability and latency targets while leaving room for iterative improvement. What principles guide your design of a data platform serving operational and analytical use cases? I focus on clear data ownership, governed schemas, lineage, data quality controls, security, discoverability, and fit-for-purpose storage and processing patterns. I also separate transactional needs from analytical workloads and establish contracts that allow teams to evolve data safely. How do you communicate a complex architectural decision to technical and non-technical stakeholders? I tailor the level of detail to the audience while clearly stating the problem, options, trade-offs, costs, risks, recommendation, and expected outcomes. Diagrams, concise decision records, and explicit milestones help stakeholders understand both the rationale and how progress will be measured. Opportunity details ## About this role. About Us_ // At Masabi, we’re driving the fare payment revolution, powering the journeys of millions all over the world. We build fare collection platforms that allow riders to seamlessly buy and present tickets for public transport either on their mobile phones, from a ticket machine, or even by tapping their bank card to travel. Our Justride platform is used in over 250 locations globally, including some of the largest cities in the world. With our industry-first mobile ticketing SDK, we’ve partnered with large players in the transport space, including Uber, Moovit and Transit. Your own journey is important to us too. Choosing a role here means joining a network of innovators from all walks of life; a group of passionate individuals who consistently deliver. Here, you’ll find the tools you need to build the career you want. Whether you’re taking the direct route or trying a new path, we’ll support you no matter what. ### The Role_ // We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to join Masabi’s Architecture team. This is a senior role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong judgement and the ability to operate across teams. You’ll help shape the technical direction of Masabi’s platform while staying close enough to the detail to design, review and deliver meaningful technical work. Working across the engineering organisation, you’ll act as a senior technical leader: defining and evolving architecture, guiding complex decisions, and contributing hands-on where it matters most. A particular focus for this role is strengthening our data architecture, how we structure, use and build on the data our platform generates. The role suits someone who can move between system-level thinking and implementation, someone who understands trade-offs, can navigate ambiguity, and helps turn complex or loosely defined problems into clear, practical technical approaches. ### Location_ // This role is available on a remote basis for candidates located anywhere on the East Coast timezone in Canada. ### Responsibilities_ * Shape Masabi’s platform architecture, including platform blueprint definition, standards and best practices * Help shape Masabi’s data architecture and strategy, including how we structure, store and make use of the data generated across our platform * Design and deliver scalable, robust, cost efficient services aligned with platform blueprint * Stay hands-on in code and technical delivery, including reviews and targeted contributions * Identify and work through complex platform challenges related to scalability, performance, resilience and cost * Act as a senior technical advisor across engineering teams, supporting and influencing technical decisions and ensuring Masabi standards are followed * Shape and contribute to technical roadmap planning and prioritisation of platform improvements * Support RFP estimation and technical scoping for complex initiatives * Produce clear, high-quality technical documentation and architecture artefacts * Improve how architecture is understood and applied across engineering and the wider business * Contribute to and help shape technical forums and working groups, including areas such as API and architecture governance ### About You_ * You bring strong experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures * You’ve operated at Principal or Staff level, shaping technical direction across multiple teams or domains * You are comfortable staying hands-on, contributing in code, design and delivery when needed * You have strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and modern infrastructure practices * You’ve worked on systems where scale, reliability, performance and cost trade-offs matter, and can navigate those decisions thoughtfully * You have proven experience in data architecture (e.g. data platforms, pipelines, warehousing or data lakes) and working on products built on top of large data stores * You can take loosely defined (early stage) business or technical problems and turn them into clear, actionable technical approaches * You communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively, and produce structured documentation that helps both technical and non-technical audiences make decisions * You’ve contributed to engineering standards, architecture patterns or platform direction * Strong experience with REST API design in complex, multi-service environments, ideally including how APIs are consumed on the front end * Interest in or exposure to AI-enabled systems, particularly understanding architectural implications in production ### Nice To Have_ * Experience breaking monolithic applications into microservices architectures * Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka, schema governance) * Experience improving cloud cost and system efficiency at scale * Familiarity with a range of tools and technologies including: Development: Kotlin, Java * Data storage/processing: DynamoDB, MySQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark * Infrastructure as code and CI/CD: Terraform, GitLab CI/CD // You don’t need to have experience in every area listed above. If you bring strong fundamentals, good judgement and a willingness to learn, we’d still love to hear from you. ### Some of Our Benefits_ * 20 days of vacation per year (in addition to public holidays). On top of this, our office is shut every year between Christmas and New Year, totaling a whopping 28+ days of vacation * Private Healthcare and Life Insurance * Menopause support * Choice of a workstation * Training allowance of up to CAD$1300 per year * CAD$325 per year to spend on your home office * $50 CAD per month for team building activities * Ability to work for up to 3 months per year from any country in the world * Enhanced family leave Careers at Masabi are for people going places – driven by a mission to make transit fair and accessible for all. // We are a network of innovators from all walks of life, passionate about making a difference. At Masabi, we operate with openness and trust, creating an environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their whole, authentic selves to work. Whoever you are, just be yourself. // We welcome applications from underrepresented groups, including disabled and neurodivergent people, and can make adjustments at any stage of the process. You’re also welcome to share your pronouns whenever you feel comfortable. Together, we simplify journeys, remove barriers, and improve daily life for millions. Why Join Masabi? * Driven by Purpose – We believe in journeys made simple. The work isn’t always easy, but the best things never are. * Encouraged to Accelerate – Masabi is going places and our people are in the driving seat. Whether you’re taking the direct route or exploring new paths, we support your journey. * Advancing with Empathy – We put people first and foster a culture of learning, not blame. No matter your cargo, we share the load. 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