Principal Engineer

Masabi Ltd

Job Overview

Location

Canada - East Coast

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Shape Masabi’s platform architecture, including platform blueprint definition, standards and best practices
• Design and deliver scalable, robust, cost efficient services aligned with platform blueprint
• Stay hands-on in code and technical delivery, including reviews and targeted contributions
• Identify and work through complex platform challenges related to scalability, performance, resilience and cost
• Act as a senior technical advisor across engineering teams, supporting and influencing technical decisions and ensuring Masabi standards are followed
• Shape and contribute to technical roadmap planning and prioritisation of platform improvements
• Support RFP estimation and technical scoping for complex initiatives
• Produce clear, high-quality technical documentation and architecture artefacts
• Improve how architecture is understood and applied across engineering and the wider business
• Contribute to and help shape technical forums and working groups, including areas such as API and architecture governance

🎯 Requirements

• You bring strong experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures
• You’ve operated at Principal or Staff level, shaping technical direction across multiple teams or domains
• You are comfortable staying hands-on, contributing in code, design and delivery when needed
• You have strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and modern infrastructure practices
• You’ve worked on systems where scale, reliability, performance and cost trade-offs matter, and can navigate those decisions thoughtfully
• You have proven experience in data architecture (e.g. data platforms, pipelines, warehousing or data lakes)
• You can take loosely defined (early stage) business or technical problems and turn them into clear, actionable technical approaches
• You communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively, and produce structured documentation that helps both technical and non-technical audiences make decisions
• You’ve contributed to engineering standards, architecture patterns or platform direction
• Interest in or exposure to AI-enabled systems, particularly understanding architectural implications in production

🏖️ Benefits

• 20 days of vacation per year (in addition to public holidays). On top of this, our office is shut every year between Christmas and New Year, totaling a whopping 28+ days of vacation
• Private Healthcare and Life Insurance
• Menopause support
• Choice of a workstation
• Training allowance of up to CAD$1300 per year
• CAD$325 per year to spend on your home office
• $50 CAD per month for team building activities
• Ability to work for up to 3 months per year from any country in the world
• Enhanced family leave

Skills & Technologies

Java

Kotlin

MySQL

DynamoDB

AWS

Senior

Remote

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About Masabi Ltd

Masabi Ltd provides mobile ticketing and fare collection software for public transport operators and agencies worldwide. Founded in London in 2001, the company delivers Justride, a cloud-based SaaS platform enabling riders to buy and display tickets on smartphones, smart cards, or contactless bank cards. Its solutions integrate with existing infrastructure, supporting account-based ticketing, EMV contactless payments, and multimodal journeys. Masabi serves rail, bus, and ferry networks across the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia, aiming to reduce operational costs, speed boarding, and improve data insights for transport authorities and operators.

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