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role = PRINCIPAL ENGINEER if raises_bar(team) and depth >= LEGENDARY and ships_code else SENIOR
Sahaj Software
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london, United-Kingdom
Location
london
Posted
June 08, 2026
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Job Description
Let’s decode this We're not looking for someone who has been around for 10+ years. We're looking for someone who has raised the bar for ten years.
raises_bar(team) → The people around you write better code because you are there. You mentor through pairing and feedback, not hierarchy.
depth = LEGENDARY → You have gone deep enough to hold strong opinions, and humble enough to change them.
ships_code → You still build. Regularly. In production.
This role isn’t for everyone . It’s for engineers who want to stay close to the code, go deep, and do meaningful work. If that sounds like you - Apply.
What the work looks like
We can't promise which problem you'll pick up, but the menu right now looks something like this:
Redesign a ClickHouse schema so an ad buyer can query 85 billion rows in under two seconds, and discover that pre-exploding the rows 168x is actually the right answer.
Keep a vehicle telemetry platform moving billions of messages a day without ...
raises_bar(team) → The people around you write better code because you are there. You mentor through pairing and feedback, not hierarchy.
depth = LEGENDARY → You have gone deep enough to hold strong opinions, and humble enough to change them.
ships_code → You still build. Regularly. In production.
This role isn’t for everyone . It’s for engineers who want to stay close to the code, go deep, and do meaningful work. If that sounds like you - Apply.
What the work looks like
We can't promise which problem you'll pick up, but the menu right now looks something like this:
Redesign a ClickHouse schema so an ad buyer can query 85 billion rows in under two seconds, and discover that pre-exploding the rows 168x is actually the right answer.
Keep a vehicle telemetry platform moving billions of messages a day without ...