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Principal engineer

  • Hybrid
    • Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
  • Engineering

Job description

As a Staff Engineer at Azumuta, you help us define what great software engineering looks like in this new reality. You are both a builder and a guide. You cannot do one without the other.

You spend a significant part of your time building real product capabilities across our stack (Node.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines). At the same time, you help the team rethink how software is built, tested, shipped, and operated so we can move faster without losing ownership, control or understanding of our product and technology.

You continuously ask questions like:

  • How do we build our product faster while still owning our code, architecture, and technical decisions?

  • How do we use AI and agentic development to increase leverage without ending up with a codebase nobody truly understands?

  • How do we scale R&D productivity, not just R&D headcount?

  • How do we run fast experiments and short learning cycles while still shipping reliable SaaS software?

You work closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to understand real customer problems, explore where new technologies (including AI) can genuinely add customer value and turn the right ideas into production-ready solutions through fast experimentation and short feedback loops.

🚀 What You’ll Be Doing:

Build: what you’ll do hands-on

  • Solve complex product problems

    Design and implement robust full-stack solutions for complex industrial workflows. Collaborate with Product to translate real-world manufacturing problems into clear, usable software.

  • Own the stack end to end

    Work across backend APIs, frontend components, data flows, and integrations. Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability across the platform.

  • Ship fast, without breaking things

    Write clean, scalable, well-tested code. Balance speed with long-term quality and technical ownership.

  • Build secure, scalable SaaS systems

    Contribute to a platform that is secure, resilient, and ready to scale to thousands of users across multiple markets.

  • Measure and improve

    Use metrics, incidents, and user feedback to continuously improve reliability, performance, and usability.

Guide: how you raise the bar for the team

  • Push modern engineering practices

    Actively drive disciplined development practices: short feedback loops, strong testing culture, CI/CD automation, and rigorous code reviews. You don’t just follow best practices, you help make them the norm.

  • Shape agentic development responsibly

    Be a champion for AI-assisted and agentic development. Experiment, set guardrails, and help the team move faster without losing control over product knowledge or system complexity.

  • Improve delivery predictability

    Challenge slicing, scope, and planning decisions. Help teams move from “busy” to “predictable” without introducing heavy process.

  • Strengthen SaaS operational maturity

    Bring real-world SaaS experience into everyday decisions: monitoring, alerting, incident awareness, infrastructure as code, and cost-quality trade-offs.

  • Grow engineering leadership

    Coach engineers through collaboration and example. Over time, help at least one engineer grow into a stronger delivery-focused leadership role.

  • AI agents on the shop floor
    What happens when software acts autonomously in planning, execution, and verification?

  • Humanoids and advanced robotics
    What changes when the “operator” is no longer human?

  • Higher autonomy and variability
    How do we increase flexibility without losing control or traceability?

  • Faster feedback loops
    How do we shorten the gap between execution, insight, and improvement?

Job requirements

🎯 You’d Be a Great Fit If You…

  • Have worked on a real SaaS product in production.

  • Have seen incidents, outages, and operational trade-offs.

  • Have helped improve engineering practices in a team before.

  • Are comfortable with modern CI/CD, testing culture, and code review rigor.

  • Stay hands-on and dive into code when it matters.

  • Are willing and able to learn our tech stack quickly. Mindset beats prior framework knowledge.

💜 What’s In It for You?

On top of a competitive salary, we offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and growth:

🍽 Meal vouchers – Enjoy daily meal perks.

🏥 Healthcare benefits – Including Alan daily care & hospitalization insurance.

Flexibility & balance – Flexible hours with in-office collaboration (please note, this is not a remote position!).

💻 Top-notch equipment – The best tools and tech to help you succeed.

🚀 A key role in a fast-growing scale-up – Join an ambitious international team with endless learning and growth opportunities.

🎯 Ownership & impact – Take on real responsibility and make a difference from day one.

🎉 Fun & team spirit – Regular team-building activities and a vibrant company culture.

🍫 Unlimited snacks & drinks – Because great work deserves great fuel!

👕 Awesome Azumuta merch – Represent the team in style!

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