Principal Engineer (m/f/x) - Platform, Best Practices & Developer Relations

Principal Engineer (m/f/x) - Platform, Best Practices & Developer Relations

Department: osapiens Hub

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Mannheim

Description

About osapiens At osapiens, more than 550 talented minds unite around one mission: enabling sustainable growth for businesses worldwide. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, we have built the AI-driven osapiens HUB - a multi-tenant platform hosting 26 enterprise-grade solutions designed for cross-company collaboration, automation, and compliance. With offices across Europe and the US, we are shaping the future of scalable and secure business technology.

Why this role matters

As we scale our platform and product landscape, the need for shared foundations, consistent architecture, and efficient developer workflows becomes critical. This role ensures that teams are not solving the same problems repeatedly, but instead build on well‑designed, reusable solutions. You will play a key role in connecting teams, identifying common patterns, and turning them into scalable platform capabilities. Your work directly impacts engineering velocity, system quality, and long‑term maintainability across the organization and beyond.

This position follows a hybrid work model with a requirement to be in the office three times per week.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Work across teams to understand requirements, challenges, and recurring patterns
• Design and build shared libraries, frameworks, and internal packages
• Define and evolve best practices, architectural guidelines, and development standards
• Translate product needs into generalized, reusable solutions
• Improve developer experience, tooling, and engineering workflows
• Support teams in solving complex technical issues and removing bottlenecks
• Align architectural decisions across services, systems, and technologies
• Acting as the "voice of the developer" internally, feeding feedback from the community back to the platform engineering teams to shape the roadmap

Your Experience

• Extensive experience building and operating enterprise cloud systems
• Strong cross‑stack knowledge, including
  • TypeScript and modern React‑based frontend ecosystems
  • JavaScript/TypeScript backend development
  • APIs and distributed systems design
  • Optional: Experience in distributed systems development
• Proven track record of creating reusable abstractions and shared components
• Experience defining and driving engineering standards and best practices
• Strong writing and public speaking skills for presentations, workshops, and documentation
• Ability to balance short‑term pragmatism with long‑term architecture
• Interest in improving developer productivity and engineering quality

What Success Looks Like

• Teams adopt and rely on shared libraries and platform components
• Clear and consistent engineering standards are established and followed
• Reduced duplication of effort across teams through reusable solutions
• Improved developer experience and faster adaption rates
• Architectural decisions are aligned and scalable across products

Join us for this and more...

• A purpose‑driven mission tackling complex sustainability challenges while working alongside global industry pioneers at a fast‑growing unicorn company
• Room for creativity through collaborative teamwork and an open communication culture
• Flexibility and team bonding with our hybrid work options
• Fuel for your growth journey, both personally and professionally
• Sustainable mobility options, promoting eco‑friendly commuting solutions
• Fun team events and outings with our global teams
• Inspiring workspaces in Mannheim and beyond