Job Description

Principal Engineer assumes individual accountability for the end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-team projects. They serve as the technical steward of significant components across systems, infrastructure, and design decisions, and they take charge of planning and the punctual completion of work within their teams. AI is the primary way we engineer — they specify, orchestrate, evaluate, and automate, and at this level they define how teams around them build with AI — but strong software engineering remains the job.

You will report to the Head of Engineering and be part of the Product & Tech India Team, working closely with Technology, Product, and other key stakeholders. Our team innovates quickly and works closely with our commercial partners and customers in a very agile, high-energy workplace.

Are you ready to be part of our journey to be crowned the undisputed champions of the sports betting, gaming, and interactive entertainment industry?

- Earns recognition for delivering high-quality, impactful technical contributions within their primary technology stack, while setting the engineering standard — including AI-native ways of working — that others follow.
- Collaborates closely with Product and Development counterparts to proactively identify and address potential risks, including technical and architectural debt, system downtime, data-security issues, and execution challenges — as well as AI-specific risks (governance, autonomy levels, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, deterministic fallbacks, and auditability).
- Actively promotes participation in the design-review process and assumes accountability for system designs within their team(s); drives the RFC process and maps cross-team dependencies.
- Takes responsibility for consistently tracking and reporting delivery and execution metrics for their team(s)



— including AI effectiveness measures such as agent success rates — and coaches their teams to maintain operational sustainability.
- Partners with Product and Development counterparts to gain a comprehensive understanding of non-functional requirements and negotiates scope, speed, and quality trade-offs with Product Owner counterparts.
- Ensures the predictability, quality, and throughput of their team's deliveries, keeping Product and Development counterparts informed of any changes to these aspects.
- Monitors and adjusts the pace of their team to foster a sense of urgency for success while safeguarding against burnout.
- Collaborates with Product and Development counterparts to ensure technological context is effectively provided during the specification, planning, or prioritization of complex features.
- Guides the process of breaking down complex projects into team-specific responsibilities and collaborates with team leads to outline detailed execution plans.
- Engages actively in cross-team technical and delivery initiatives and takes the lead in similar initiatives within their own team(s); builds shared platforms, agent templates, and standards so teams ship features without touching infrastructure.
- Proactively imparts knowledge to other teams within their product group, offering support through workshops and advisory sessions, and fosters an inner-sourcing culture that makes sharing tools, prompts, and learnings easier than hoarding them.
- Demonstrates Agile/XP software development lifecycle practices and adjusts them as needed based on project requirements.
- Serves as a mentor to multiple engineers, sharing knowledge and expertise, and grows them into system-level thinkers.
- Plays an integral role in the recruitment process by participating in interviews and assisting Engineering Managers with the development of performance plans for their team(s).
- Empowers others, elevating the skills and expertise of those in their vicinity.
- Provides guidance to others by offering insights and recommendations to enhance the architectural health and delivery performance of the teams.

📌 Principal Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Entain India
📍 Pune