Principal Engineer

Technical Architecture & Leadership

• Serve as Cocoon's primary internal authority on backend architecture, data architecture, system design and engineering quality.
• Own technical architecture and engineering decisions.
• Spearhead Cocoon's efforts to integrate AI-driven capabilities into its products, platform and engineering workflows.

Hands-On Backend Engineering

• Remain deeply hands-on in Cocoon's codebase and personally develop production software.
• Enter an established codebase, understand it quickly and determine what should be retained, refactored or replaced.
• Help shape product ideas and requirements alongside Cocoon team members before specifications are finalized.

Data Architecture

• Lead evolution of Cocoon's existing data architecture into a sophisticated relational domain model.
• Define schemas, relationships, data-access patterns and integrity standards.
• Develop safe migration strategies for evolving an active production database.
• Account for both structured and unstructured information as Cocoon's AI capabilities expand.
• Build a data foundation capable of supporting substantially greater intelligence, automation and scale over time.

AI-Native Engineering

• Be AI-native in how you work, actively using AI development tools to improve engineering speed and quality.

Infrastructure & DevOps Oversight

• Ensure infrastructure decisions remain aligned with Cocoon's application architecture.
• Maintain appropriate visibility into security, reliability, deployment architecture, performance & cost.
• Provide technical direction and oversight to Cocoon's outsourced AWS/DevOps engineer.

Enterprise & Partner Technical Leadership

• As required, represent Cocoon in technical discussions with insurance carriers, technology partners and other external stakeholders.