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Principal Engineer At Chowdeck

Chowdeck·Lagos, nigeria·Full Time·Internship
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Where you come in

We're looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to help shape the technical direction of Chowdeck as we continue to scale our platform, products, infrastructure, and engineering teams.

  • You'll be responsible for driving architecture decisions, improving engineering standards, and building scalable systems that power critical parts of our business across customer ordering, logistics, vendor operations, fulfillment, and internal tooling. Our tech stack consists of NodeJS, MySQL, Redis, AWS, and other technologies.
  • We're looking for someone who is deeply technical, highly collaborative, and excited about solving complex operational and engineering challenges at scale while mentoring and supporting other engineers across the company.

In this role, you'll be required to:

  • Lead architecture and technical direction across multiple engineering teams and systems
  • Design and build scalable backend systems, services, and infrastructure
  • Drive improvements in reliability, performance, scalability, and engineering quality
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Leadership teams on long-term technical strategy
  • Lead complex technical initiatives across logistics, fulfillment, payments, and platform infrastructure
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, observability, and development workflows
  • Mentor engineers across different levels and support technical growth across the organization
  • Identify long-term technical risks and proactively propose solutions

You're perfect for the role if you:

  • Have 10+ years of backend/software engineering experience
  • Have significant professional experience building and scaling large, highly available distributed systems
  • Have strong experience leading technical architecture and cross-functional engineering initiatives
  • Have deep knowledge of backend systems, databases, APIs, caching, cloud infrastructure, and system design
  • Can make thoughtful technical decisions that balance speed, scalability, reliability, and business impact
  • Can effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Care deeply about engineering quality, developer experience, and operational excellence
  • Thrive in fast-paced startup environments with evolving challenges and priorities
  • Have a deep and unrelenting focus on customer satisfaction and experience

Key skills

BA/BSc/HND
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At a glance

Company

Chowdeck

Location

Lagos, nigeria

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

June 18, 2026

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