Principal Dev - Team Lead / Architect

We're Hiring: Principal Dev - Team Lead / Architect – Galway

Location: Galway, Ireland (with partial remote working options)

About Us:

Octostar is bringing a new offering in investigative and decision-intelligence to law-enforcement, national-security, and financial-crime professionals. Our AI-native, cloud-native platform already protects people worldwide and is built for massive / petabyte scale. Backed by top investors and domain leaders, we reward colleagues who want their technical skill to make a global impact.

See what we do in action:  https://www.youtube.com/@octostar-com

We’re looking for a key role here: Principal Software Architect / Team Lead

What You'll Do:

• Together with the technical confounders give key contributions and validation to the architecture and technical direction while remaining a strong hands-on contributor.
• Own the product delivery pipeline - break down big product goals into clear, prioritised work-streams and assign them to the right people.
• Review designs, interfaces, and code for quality, security, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Partner with Product and stakeholders to ship the highest-impact increments every iteration.
• Grow and mentor the team from today’s 15+ engineers to 40+ by the end of next year, fostering a culture of excellence.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven history as a principal or senior software engineer leading architecture in distributed and or cloud enterprise products.
• Current hands-on development skills with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Proven experience in a multitude of backends ideally search systems (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar) and other SQL  / NOSQL - distributed system development experience.
• Enterprise-grade security know-how across build pipelines, release processes, and runtime.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes on at least one major cloud provider.
• Strong system-administration fundamentals and DevOps mindset.
• Excellent leadership and English-communication skills; able to influence across functions.

Salary depending on seniority, range from 75k to 110k - Principal level Stock Option package - other benefits.