1WRK by ANSR

Principal Engineer

Full time| Experience: 10- 16 Years |Location: Bangalore/Hybrid

About the Role:

1WRK by ANSR is hiring a Principal Engineer to own the technical direction of critical systems across our platform. This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who thinks in an AI-first way, is comfortable working primarily in Python, and has the depth to make lasting architecture decisions while mentoring the engineers around them to raise the bar for the whole team.

What You'll Do:
- Architecture ownership:Own the architecture and long-term technical roadmap for one or more critical systems, making build-vs-buy and technology bet decisions with clear reasoning.
- AI-first delivery:Push the team toward an AI-first way of building software using AI tools/agents to accelerate the SDLC, and identifying where AI/LLM capabilities belong inside the product itself.
- Hands-on engineering:Stay hands-on write production code, review designs and pull requests, and set the technical bar through your own work, not just through documents.
- Scalable,



cost-aware design:Design software and modules that are highly optimized for scale and cost, and hold the broader engineering team to the same standard.
- Secure by design:Champion secure SDLC practices across the systems you own threat modeling, secure coding, dependency hygiene, and security reviews as a default, not an afterthought.
- Technical mentorship:Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, run design and code reviews, and grow the team's depth in system design, data structures, and Python engineering.
- Cross-team influence:Act as a trusted technical voice across engineering, product, and leadership surfacing risks, trade-offs, and options in plain language.
- Standards & best practices:Define and evolve engineering standards for backend design, event-driven systems, database usage, and AWS deployment across teams.

What We're Looking For:
- 10-16 years of overall backend/software engin

📌 Principal Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Talent500 Tech
📍 Bengaluru