Principal Software Engineer

Kadence is a company focused on AI, partnering with a recently acquired AI firm to develop solutions at the intersection of search, legal intelligence, and document analysis. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect and scale backend systems for a search-centric platform, which involves building scalable APIs and distributed systems that enhance the performance of their core product.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs
• Develop distributed systems and data processing pipelines
• Architect search-centric infrastructure powering complex workflows
• Build integrations across internal ML systems and third-party services
• Optimize performance across large-scale backend operations
• Contribute to frontend functionality where needed to deliver end-to-end features
• Help improve CI/CD, developer tooling, and engineering best practices
• Partner closely with AI/ML and product teams to productionize new capabilities

Requirements:

• 7–10+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong backend architecture and API design experience
• Experience building scalable distributed systems
• Strong understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases and data modeling
• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Python, or Go
• Familiarity with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern cloud infrastructure
• Experience with React/full stack development
• Engineers who thrive in fast-moving, high-ownership environments
• Experience with search, retrieval, or data-intensive systems
• Experience building large-scale processing pipelines
• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure or AI-powered products
• Experience with event-driven or microservices architectures