Shipt

Principal Engineer

Shipt
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3 days ago
Minneapolis, MN, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$140k - $211k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set strategic technical direction and drive system architecture across multiple engineering teams.
  • Lead high-impact, multi-team initiatives and enterprise architectural decisions.
  • Establish software engineering best practices and drive organizational change.
  • Mentor engineers across all levels and collaborate with senior leadership on architectural roadmaps.
  • Own and monitor production services while improving poorly performing code and database queries.
  • Architect and deploy agentic features using LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and multi-agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Advance AI-assisted developer productivity through coding assistants, automated code generation, and AI-driven testing.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or a related field; a master’s degree is also accepted.
  • 7–10 years of software development experience.
  • Ability to apply functional and object-oriented programming paradigms and SOLID principles.
  • Experience designing and interacting with complex persisted data models.
  • Ability to explain REST principles and design RESTful APIs.
  • Experience with SOA, microservices, and/or distributed architectures.
  • Demonstrated architectural leadership across multiple teams and alignment of technical architecture with business strategy.
  • Proficiency with AI-assisted development tooling and hands-on experience architecting agentic systems using LLMs, RAG, and multi-agent orchestration.
  • Strong communication, mentoring, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work with location-specific in-office expectations, typically one or two days per week depending on location.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and additional employee and eligible-family-member coverage.
  • 401(k) plan eligibility, discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
  • Eligibility for an annual bonus and potential restricted stock units based on role.

Tech Stack

Shipt

About Shipt

1,001-5,000 employees

Through a community of shoppers and a convenient app, Shipt provides personal shopping and delivery and is available to 80% of households in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shoppers go above and beyond, communicating in real time about preferences and substitutions. A curated marketplace of retailers, Shipt offers access to a variety of stores and product categories including fresh foods, household essentials, wellness products, office and pet supplies. Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corp. Founded and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Shipt also maintains an office in San Francisco. For more information, visit Shipt.com.

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