Principal Engineer at Chowdeck

Chowdeck is a food technology company that provides a food delivery hub that connects both food vendors and consumers. This allows food vendors to deliver meals seamlessly while also providing consumers with a platform to order meals from their favourite restaurants in their city. In between the consumers and vendors sits our riders who are the superstars of Chowdeck.

At Chowdeck, we unite people through innovative meal-ordering and delivery technology, putting smiles across faces and ensuring satisfaction in bellies. We empower food businesses with essentials to foster new growth horizons while creating a better standard of living for their communities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Principal Engineer

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Work Mode: Hybrid

Job Description
Where you come in:

• We're looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to help shape the technical direction of Chowdeck as we continue to scale our platform, products, infrastructure, and engineering teams.
• You'll be responsible for driving architecture decisions, improving engineering standards, and building scalable systems that power critical parts of our business across customer ordering, logistics, vendor operations, fulfillment, and internal tooling. Our tech stack consists of NodeJS, MySQL, Redis, AWS, and other technologies.
• We're looking for someone who is deeply technical, highly collaborative, and excited about solving complex operational and engineering challenges at scale while mentoring and supporting other engineers across the company.

Responsibilities
In this role, you'll be required to:

• Lead architecture and technical direction across multiple engineering teams and systems
• Design and build scalable backend systems, services, and infrastructure
• Drive improvements in reliability, performance, scalability, and engineering quality
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Leadership teams on long-term technical strategy
• Lead complex technical initiatives across logistics, fulfillment, payments, and platform infrastructure
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, observability, and development workflows
• Mentor engineers across different levels and support technical growth across the organization
• Identify long-term technical risks and proactively propose solutions

Requirements
You're perfect for the role if you:

• Have 10+ years of backend/software engineering experience
• Have significant professional experience building and scaling large, highly available distributed systems
• Have strong experience leading technical architecture and cross-functional engineering initiatives
• Have deep knowledge of backend systems, databases, APIs, caching, cloud infrastructure, and system design
• Can make thoughtful technical decisions that balance speed, scalability, reliability, and business impact
• Can effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Care deeply about engineering quality, developer experience, and operational excellence
• Thrive in fast-paced startup environments with evolving challenges and priorities
• Have a deep and unrelenting focus on customer satisfaction and experience.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online