Principal Engineer | The Points Guy

Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies, and they are seeking a Principal Engineer to elevate their engineering team. This hands-on role focuses on solving complex technical challenges in consumer product transformation and mentoring fellow engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Own the hardest technical problems in our consumer product transformation end to end, from architecture through shipped code
• Set technical direction for a ~30 person engineering org and pressure-test the big decisions before we commit to them
• Raise the engineering bar every week: design reviews, pairing, code review standards, and the questions nobody else is asking
• Make AI-assisted development the way we work, not a side experiment. You use agents and modern tooling daily and you show others what good looks like
• Bring outside industry perspective to a team that has grown up inside one company, and change ways of working that have gone stale
• Partner directly with the SVP of Engineering and the engineering managers as a technical thought partner, while staying an IC

Requirements:

• Many years of experience building and shipping consumer products at scale, with the scars to prove it
• Hands-on today. You write code every week and you would not take a role where you didn't
• A track record of up-leveling teams around you: engineers who worked near you got noticeably better
• Deep fluency in the modern web stack (we build on Next.js, React, and TypeScript) and strong instincts for product architecture
• Genuine conviction about AI-native development, backed by daily practice rather than talking points
• Comfort influencing without authority. You change how a team works through credibility, not org charts