Principal Engineer - Agentic AI Applications

Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology, looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the technical vision and architecture for agentic AI applications. The role involves architecting autonomous AI agents, partnering with Product, Research, and Platform teams, and leading a team of engineers.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience
• 4+ years in technical leadership or principal-level roles
• Deep hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered or agentic systems to production
• Proven track record of architecting distributed, high-availability systems
• Mastery of Python and modern backend frameworks
• Deep familiarity with RAG pipelines, vector databases, tool-calling APIs, and multi-step reasoning
• Ability to distill complex AI concepts into clear technical roadmaps
• Desire to influence org-wide engineering culture

Benefits

• Competitive base pay
• Medical Benefits
• Discretionary incentive plan
• Access to a learning & development platform
• Flexible work policy