Principal Engineer – LATAM

🕒 April 28

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Terrific

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11 - 50 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 Seed on 2023-08

eCommerce • SaaS • B2B

Terrific is a SaaS social commerce platform that embeds live shopping and shoppable video directly into merchants' websites as a white‑label experience. It offers features like multi-stream live shopping, in-video checkout, an AI commerce engine and live-host co-pilot, live chat, polls, discounts and social import tools to help brands, publishers and agencies turn content into revenue while retaining first-party data and site performance. The product targets e-commerce teams and enterprises seeking to increase conversion, AOV and engagement through video-driven, interactive shopping experiences.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the Terrific platform across backend, frontend, data, AI, and real-time systems. • Drive engineering standards - code quality, testing, observability, security, and operational excellence - and raise the bar across the team. • Mentor engineers; grow the technical depth of the organization. • Design and implement new services and features end-to-end, from database to UI, with high performance and responsiveness. • Build rapid prototype features A to Z. • Tackle the highest-risk, highest-impact problems personally - live video reliability, real-time engagement, commerce integrations, and AI-powered experiences. • Evolve our stack thoughtfully: React, Angular, Node.js, TypeScript, GCP, Firebase, Firestore, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub. • Architect for global, 24/7 live operation — uptime, latency, cost, and graceful degradation during peak live events. • Build for B2B2C scale: systems that serve enterprise customers (brands, retailers, broadcasters) and their consumer audiences across multiple regions and languages. • Partner with Product and Data on experimentation infrastructure so every meaningful change can be A/B tested and measured. • Partner with Product and Design from concept through launch, taking full ownership in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. • Represent engineering with strategic customers and partners on deep technical topics; translate customer reality into architectural decisions. • Make the whole team better - through design reviews, technical writing, mentorship, and hiring.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a track record of leading at staff/principal level at high-scale products(!). • Expert-level Node.js and TypeScript; strong frontend experience in React and/or Angular (both a significant plus). • Deep experience designing and operating distributed, real-time systems in production, 24/7, under load. • Strong data engineering instincts: SQL/NoSQL, event-driven architectures, and analytical stores (BigQuery or equivalent). • Hands-on experience building or shipping AI/ML-powered features in production - personalization, recommendations, search, or generative AI. • Experience on GCP (Firebase, Cloud Functions, Firestore, Realtime Database, Pub/Sub) is a strong advantage. • Experience with commerce platforms such as Shopify or WooCommerce, and/or live video/streaming infrastructure, is a plus. • Excellent judgment on trade-offs between scope, speed, performance, and UX; strong product intuition. • Clear, calm communicator: writes well, pushes back thoughtfully, and makes the people around them more effective.

🏖️ Benefits

• Principal-level ownership of the platform that defines live, shoppable media. • Real, global scale — top brands, retailers, and broadcasters, running 24/7 across LatAm, Europe, and Israel. • A modern stack (Node.js, TypeScript, React, Angular, GCP, Firebase, BigQuery, Pub/Sub) with the autonomy to evolve it. • A tight, senior team where product, design, data, and engineering ship together