As the most senior individual contributor, you will serve as the technical right hand to the Head of Engineering. You will lead the architectural direction of an integration-heavy, serverless TypeScript platform that centralizes mission-critical data for major restaurant chains, ensuring high-quality delivery while mentoring a talented team of six engineers.
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Principal Engineer at Openr
Join a scaling London-based SaaS startup that is revolutionizing how the hospitality industry manages data. Backed by the prominent Azzurri Group and already live in 1,500+ venues, this company is solving the manual nightmare of menu and price management for major restaurant chains. As the Principal Engineer and senior-most IC, you will work directly with the Head of Engineering to shape a sophisticated, event-driven TypeScript and AWS serverless architecture. This is a rare opportunity to play a foundational technical role in a revenue-generating business with massive market traction, all while maintaining a healthy hybrid work-life balance in Central London.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Openr
Software16 employees
Hospitality businesses are under intense pressure from rising costs and price-sensitive guests. Openr helps them find a better way. We provide the "Gastronorm" for their menu & pricing data—a single source of truth that connects their product, menus and pricing to every channel instantly. Whether it’s deploying a weather-related pricing or managing 200 hyper-local price bands, Openr removes the manual bottlenecks and helps operators deliver the right product at the right price, every time.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Design and implement complex, event-driven architectures using AWS Lambda, Node.js, and PostgreSQL to connect hospitality ecosystems.
- Act as a technical mentor and point of contact, unblocking the engineering team through code reviews, architectural guidance, and best practices.
- Partner with leadership to balance technical debt with rapid feature delivery, ensuring the system remains performant and reliable as it scales.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Exceptional hands-on coding skills in TypeScript across the full stack, with a deep specialization in backend serverless architectures and AWS.
- Proven track record of delivering complex integration-heavy platforms, ideally within a fast-paced startup, agency, or consultancy environment.
- Strong architectural vision with the ability to communicate sophisticated technical concepts clearly to both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Significant market traction with 1,500+ live venues and backing from the Azzurri Group, one of the UK's premier hospitality investment platforms.
- Direct influence on the technical roadmap and architecture of a high-growth SaaS product without the burden of out-of-hours support requirements.
- High-impact IC role where you can remain deeply hands-on with modern cloud-native tech while shaping the engineering culture and mentoring a growing team.
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How Jack & Jill work together
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