🚀 Principal Engineer role - High Growth scale-up - Stockholm 🚀
The title can be interchangeable, but what is a given is that this role is the opportunity to be at the tip-of-the spear within one of Stockholm's most exciting and high-impact startups right now!
This role is for someone who wants to be at the forefront of technical discovery, AI application, solving complex, unexplored problems, exploring and spearheading new product & engineering initiatives which translate into real-world commercial impact!
You won’t be joining to own a particular engineering team or simply deliver against an existing roadmap. You’ll operate across the organisation, working closely with the CTO, head of product, business leadership and an exceptional product-minded engineering org, to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions and figure out what should be built next!
What Makes This Role Different ✅
Your Mission ✅
Your role will be to find and solve the problems that sit beyond the boundaries of individual teams.
You’ll have the agency to:
The emphasis is on discovery and problem solving rather than execution against a predefined backlog.
AI & Emerging Technology ✅
AI will be an important part of the role and our strategy going forward, but this is not simply an AI engineering position. You’ll be expected to understand where AI and emerging technologies can genuinely change how the organisation operates, what it builds and how it creates value. AND, be able to decide when AI isn't the solution!
This could include: ✅
How You'll Work✅
You’ll operate with a high degree of autonomy and work horizontally across engineering, product and business functions.
You should be comfortable moving between high-level business problems and deep technical detail, and knowing when to stay strategic versus when to get hands-on.
You won't be expected to manage a large team. Instead, your impact will come through the problems you solve, the direction you influence and the leverage you create for others.
The Ideal Profile ✅
You may currently be a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, VP of Technology or another senior technical leadership position, a founder trapped within a slow moving enterprise org, or maybe you've been a founding engineer or CTO within a high growth startup!
More important than your current title is that you: ✅
Technology ✅
The existing environment includes:
The technology stack is not restrictive. You’ll have the freedom to introduce new technologies where they make sense for the problem being solved.
What Success Looks Like ✅
Success won't be measured simply by the number of tickets delivered or systems owned.
It will look more like:
This is a role for someone who wants to be at the frontier of what the organisation could become, rather than simply maintaining what already exists. Like we mentioned, high ownership, high agency and autonomy, startup ambiguity with an established engineering team and successful product, with a tonne of room to impact!
This is a hybrid role, 3 days/week in Stockholm office generally. Unable to assist in Visa sponsorship or extensions at the moment.
Compensated with an attractive salary & compensation offering!
