Principal Software Development Engineer (Flowise)

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About the Team

About the Role

We are seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to serve as the technical anchor and platform architect for Flowise. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines deep system design expertise strong coding capability and cross organizational technical influence.

You will define and drive the long term architectural vision for Flowise as an extensible AI platform across open source SaaS and Workday enterprise environments. You will own critical systems influence architectural direction across teams and write production code that ships.

What You Will Do

Platform Architecture & Vision:

• Define and evolve the shared platform layer powering Flowise across open source cloud and enterprise deployments.

• Design modular SDKs runtime systems and integration patterns that ensure portability extensibility and long term maintainability.

• Own end-to-end system design including APIs data models service boundaries and deployment strategies

AI Systems Leadership:

• Lead architectural decisions for AI agent design patterns LLM orchestration RAG pipelines evaluation frameworks model routing safety guardrails and performance optimization.

• Drive production reliability observability and cost efficiency strategies for AI workloads.

Open Source & Enterprise Bridge:

• Define the roadmap for open source and enterprise and design workflows that allow both codebases to evolve without creating maintenance debt.

• Represent Flowise in cross organizational architectural discussions and influence standards for enterprise AI deployment within Workday.

Hands On Engineering:

• Contribute directly to the TypeScript monorepo ( React Express).

• Review pull requests debug complex issues and participate in production on call rotations.

Engineering Excellence & Mentorship:

• Raise the bar on testing practices CI/CD pipelines and observability standards.

• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction through design reviews and collaboration.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 8 years of software engineering experience building large scale production systems.

• 6 years of experience and expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and React.

• 6 years of experience architecting distributed systems and scalable APIs with a strong background in relational databases cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and CI/CD tooling.

• Track record of owning systems from requirements through production operations.

Other Qualifications

• Experience building production AI systems (LLM applications RAG pipelines agent frameworks).

• Experience with MCP LangChain or similar orchestration frameworks.

• Hands-on experience with Docker Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code.

• Experience with authentication protocols (OAuth JWT SSO) multi tenant systems and embedding applications within host platforms.

• Experience influencing architectural decisions across multiple teams or organizations.

Communication & Leadership

• Ability to clearly communicate complex architectural decisions to engineers product leaders and executive stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence rather than authority.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdayscomprehensive benefits in Canada please click here. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits in the US please click here.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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