Matchii is the new way to hire agencies: matched, not browsed.
Hiring an agency today is a slog: 20+ quotes, 40+ hours of vetting, and a gut-feel pick that's wrong about half the time. Matchii makes it feel like booking the perfect flight; describe what you need, the right team appears, work begins. Human, AI-native, or hybrid. We match. We back the outcome. Behind the scenes, it's two products on one platform: a matched marketplace for the people doing the hiring and an operating system that the agencies run their whole business on. Underneath both is a data layer, the largest dataset of real services pricing and outcomes anywhere, that makes every match smarter than the last. The timing is the whole point. The $500B+ global agency services market is old and broken, and AI just blew the supply side open: 100+ AI-native services launched in the past year alone, with no platform connecting buyers to the new shape of supply. That gap has been open for years. We're building the company that fills it.
Role summary
Principal Engineers at Matchii are responsible for defining the technical vision, architecture, and data foundations that power the future of service delivery.
They define and drive Matchii's long-term technical vision, partnering closely with founders, product leaders, and engineering teams to translate business strategy into scalable platforms and durable competitive advantages.
Principal Engineers solve the company's most complex technical challenges, lead architectural decisions across teams, and build the foundations that enable Matchii to scale its ecosystem of customers, service providers, and partners.
What You'll Own
Technical Vision & Architecture
Define and drive Matchii’s long-term technical architecture across platform, data, and intelligence systems.
Partner closely with founders and product leaders to translate business strategy into scalable technical roadmaps.
Lead architectural decisions that improve scalability, reliability, performance, and developer velocity.
Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce technical debt, and create reusable platform capabilities.
Platform, Data & AI Foundations
Design and evolve the infrastructure that powers Matchii’s marketplace, workflow, and intelligence layers.
Drive the development of scalable data platforms, event-driven architectures, and AI-native capabilities.
Establish technical foundations that enable intelligent matching, automation, recommendations, and future AI-powered products.
Ensure data quality, observability, security, and platform reliability at scale.
Engineering Leadership
Mentor and develop senior engineers, staff engineers, and technical leaders across teams.
Raise the bar for engineering excellence through architecture reviews, technical standards, and best practices.
Act as a trusted advisor and escalation point for the company’s most complex technical challenges.
Foster a culture of ownership, experimentation, continuous learning, and high-quality execution.
Cross-Functional Impact
Drive alignment across engineering, product, design, and business teams around technical priorities and company objectives.
Lead high-impact initiatives that span multiple teams and product areas.
Collaborate with customers, partners, and stakeholders to understand evolving market needs and translate them into platform capabilities.
Influence company strategy through technology, data, and AI-driven insights.
Innovation & Scale
Identify emerging technologies and opportunities that can create long-term competitive advantages.
Solve highly ambiguous and complex problems with pragmatic, scalable solutions.
Build systems that can support Matchii’s growth from startup scale to a global services platform.
Deliver measurable business impact through technology, platform leverage, and engineering leadership.
Who we're looking for
10+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems, platforms, or infrastructure.
Proven experience leading architecture and technical strategy across multiple teams or product domains.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and modern software architecture.
Strong understanding of AI-native products, data-driven systems, and scalable platform design.
Ability to translate business objectives into technical roadmaps and engineering priorities.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising technical standards across an organization.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and solving high-impact problems with limited precedent.
Passion for technology, AI, platform businesses, and building category-defining products.
Why This, Why Now
This isn't a traditional Principal Engineer role.
You'll help define the technical foundations of a company building at the intersection of AI, data, marketplaces, and software platforms.
As Matchii enters its next stage of growth, we're investing in the systems, infrastructure, and intelligence layers that will power the future of service delivery. You'll work directly with founders and senior leaders to shape technical strategy, influence company direction, and solve some of the most important challenges across the business.
Your impact won't be measured solely by the code you write, but by the architecture you design, the teams you influence, and the long-term advantages you create through technology, AI, and data.
How we hire
Intro call (30 min).
Founder call: Founder & technical vision discussion
Assessment.
References & offer.
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