Principal Engineer

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Median wage (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 national median

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Principal Engineer Shanghai At a Glance: We are looking for a highly hands-on Principal Engineer to play a critical technical leadership role in shaping and building globally scalable platforms from our Shanghai office. This role is designed for a senior technical leader who combines deep engineering expertise, first-principles thinking, strong product mindset, and the ability to influence architecture and execution across teams and regions. Based in Shanghai, you will work closely with Global Tech Leadership and be part of the global On Engineering Guild, collaborating with Principal Engineers across the world on strategic technology decisions, engineering standards, architectural direction, and platform evolution. You will help ensure that our China Tech Hub operates as a first-class global engineering center: delivering locally excellent solutions for China while building platforms, patterns, and capabilities that can scale across APAC, EMEA, and AMER. Your Mission As a Principal Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical leader shaping globally scalable retail and commercial platforms from our Shanghai Tech Hub. You will combine deep architecture expertise, strong product thinking, and practical engineering leadership to help China become both a center of local innovation and a contributor to On's global technology strategy. You will: Lead with Architecture - and with Code - Shape the architecture of large-scale distributed systems across retail, commerce, customer, platform, and integration domains. - Lead complex system design discussions, challenge assumptions, and guide teams through key technical trade-offs. - Stay hands-on through design reviews, prototypes, code reviews, debugging, and critical implementation decisions. - Define

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