Principal Engineer, Backend Systems, Emergence | Remote - India | Full time

Who We Are
Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. We invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks. Emergence combines operational rigor with a growth equity mindset, driving sustainable ARR growth, profitability improvements, and industry-leading customer outcomes.

The Mission
Set technical standards across a live portfolio of B2B SaaS companies. Own development or technical leadership for critical backend systems, make architectural decisions that compound across multiple businesses, and build engineering cultures that scale.

What You'll Do
- Code, Design and ship distributed systems (async queues, caching layers, pub-sub, background job orchestration) handling production traffic.
- Reduce production incident response time by establishing review discipline, deploying prevention measures, and maintaining team on-call rotation.




- Own technical decisions for 5+ engineers by defining quality gates and architectural direction without delegating accountability.
- Debug and resolve Node.js/TypeScript performance issues in production using instrumentation, flame graphs, and measured improvements.
- Review Python architectural decisions and own automation layer integration boundaries with sufficient depth to catch inefficiencies.
- Build high-output engineering culture by selecting tooling, defining code review standards, and mentoring engineers to ship faster reliably.

What We're Looking For

Must-haves
- 6-10 years production software engineering with measurable outcomes: shipped features, reduced latency, improved reliability, or scaled systems 10x+.
- Deep hands-on Node.js/TypeScript backend experience in production: debugged performance issues, optimized database patterns, shipped measurable improvements.
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📌 Principal Engineer (India)
🏢 Emergence Software
📍 India