Wonder

Principal Software Engineer

Wonder
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Base Salary

$244k - $254k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the architecture and technical direction for AI-native developer tooling, including context aggregation, MCPs, CLIs, skills, sub-agents, and integrations.
  • Guide delivery of autonomous development agents and cloud-agent solutions with appropriate access controls and guardrails.
  • Establish standards and strategies for AI-assisted code generation, review, testing, documentation, refactoring, and incident-management workflows.
  • Design pre-review and triage tooling that automates mechanical and policy issues and define standards for reviewing AI-generated code.
  • Architect systems that optimize AI costs, abstract model selection, route tasks to appropriate models, and measure developer velocity and outcomes.
  • Coordinate technical outcomes across platform, infrastructure, application, and engineering teams, including build-versus-buy, cost, and risk decisions.
  • Write strategy documents, specifications, and documentation; communicate technical tradeoffs across departments and leadership levels.
  • Mentor senior engineers in building durable and auditable AI-assisted engineering practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including recent hands-on work with LLM-based tooling such as agents, MCP servers, or coding assistants.
  • Direct experience integrating AI tools into real development workflows such as code review, testing, code generation, or documentation, ideally at organizational scale.
  • Strong system design skills and experience owning tools or platforms end-to-end from design through adoption across multiple teams.
  • Experience designing and consuming APIs, webhooks, or other integration and message-based systems.
  • Experience building developer tooling, internal platforms, CI/CD systems, or other software primarily used by engineers.
  • Experience with Java/JVM and/or Python is a plus.
  • Pragmatic problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical obstacles.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to lead technical discussions with engineers and leaders through the senior-director level.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with equity and a 401(k).
  • Medical, dental, and vision plan options, plus company-paid short- and long-term disability coverage.
  • Paid time off, including flexible time off for exempt employees, paid vacation for non-exempt employees, and paid sick leave as required by law.
  • Paid parental leave, discounted meals, and exclusive perks across Wonder’s brands.
  • Benefits eligibility, effective dates, and plan options vary by employment classification and location.
Wonder

About Wonder

10,000+ employees

Wonder builds a mealtime platform that lets customers mix dishes from multiple restaurant brands in a single order, with options for dine-in, delivery, pickup, and meal kits. The New York-based, privately held company owns and operates its kitchens and technology and also develops robotic cooking systems used with enterprise B2B clients. Wonder expanded its portfolio by acquiring meal-kit pioneer Blue Apron in 2023.

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