Principal Software Engineer

Are you looking for a big challenge and want to invest heavily in your career while being a part of scaling a technical organisation? If so, read on! We're looking for a Principal Engineer to join us!
Apply for this job 🚀 Are you looking for a big challenge and want to invest heavily in your career while being a part of scaling a technical organisation? If so, read on! We're looking for a Principal Engineer to join us!The opportunity and what we offer

Formalize is on a scaling journey with significant traction across Europe. As our new Principal Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and tackle significant challenges to make a meaningful impact in our Product and Development team. Seize this distinctive chance to actively contribute to shaping Formalize's products growth narrative.

• Be part of a fast-growing international SaaS company
• High level of trust and autonomy
• Be part of a social, diverse, and international team

A competitive salary level between 96.000 and 109.000 DKK

Responsibilities:

• Build maintainable, flexible software solutions grounded in core domain-driven design principles—designed to scale alongside the team
• Help shape and drive technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with broader business goals
• Influence high-level design and architectural decisions that span across multiple teams and projects
• Own projects end-to-end, navigating and solving complex challenges along the way
• Maintain a strong business perspective, ensuring engineering decisions support long-term strategic objectives
• Lead and support multiple teams through technical complexity, contributing to a unified, forward-looking roadmap
• Mentor senior engineers and serve as a trusted sparring partner—raising the technical bar beyond your immediate team
• Act as a force multiplier, empowering others to achieve greater impact
• Foster seamless collaboration between product and engineering, driving shared ownership and momentum
• Act as a catalyst for technological decisions, elevating the quality and impact of our engineering practices across the organization
• Defining and executing enterprise-level technical strategies that shape long-term innovation
• Architecting highly resilient, scalable, and secure systems that set the benchmark for industry best practices
• Establishing and refining technical frameworks that unify and streamline efforts across multiple teams

Qualifications and about you:
Professional:

• Have a strong grasp of fundamentals and deep knowledge within them; object-oriented programming, common design patterns, system design & testing methodologies
  • Tried and tested different approaches to software, and have seen the pros and cons
  • Broad knowledge and knowhow of what it takes to build software that is prepared for rapid development
• One or more server-side languages. We primarily use PHP (a few services written in Typescript), and know you are capable of learning a new language
• One or more frontend frameworks, including an understand of what complex state-management means and how to handle this in growing applications. We use Angular
• Good testing practices and familiarity with one or more testing frameworks (Vitest, Pest)

Personal:

• Are the visionary architect who establishes a long-term technical strategy and drives enterprise-level innovation
• Are trusted advisors to executive leadership, consistently influencing company-wide technical direction and strategic decisions
• Are curious by nature and keep up to date with modern innovations in the space
• Are able to receive and provide relevant and honest feedback
• Are the go-to person for solving challenging problems

Our tech-stack includes:

• Angular, including RxJS and observables
• Declarative programming principles
• Global state-management through NgRx
• TailwindCSS for styling
• PostgreSQL and general relational database principles
• PHP and Laravel
• Caching mechanisms through Redis
• Considerations for deploying to a serverless infrastructure using AWS