Principal Product Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the hard problems
• Take loosely defined product or platform problems and turn them into clear problem statements, constraints, and success criteria.
• Rationalize complex technical architectures into coherent, reviewable designs that engineers can execute incrementally.
• Make principled tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long term maintainability-and explain those tradeoffs clearly.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices
• Identify friction in the SDLC and help teams remove it through better design practices, clearer specifications, improved testing strategies, and tighter feedback loops.
• Lead the adoption of specification driven development: explicit contracts, well-defined interfaces, and testable requirements.
• Promote development workflows where design, validation, and implementation are deliberate phases, and production code reflects understood decisions.
• Accelerate delivery (measurably)
• Help teams deliver faster by improving how work is shaped, not by asking people to work harder.
• Introduce practices that lead to observable improvements in:
• Lead time and cycle time
• Change failure rate
• Defect escape rates
• Confidence in releases
• Use data where it helps, judgment where it matters.
• Enable agentic development-responsibly
• Experiment with and enable agentic development techniques across the SDLC, including requirements refinement, design exploration, test generation and validation, documentation, and maintenance.
• Ensure that AI and agent assisted development is grounded in explicit intent-using specifications, contracts, and tests as primary inputs-so automation amplifies engineering judgment rather than substituting for it.
• Establish guardrails that keep systems understandable, changes reviewable, and intent preserved over time.
• Build and evolve cloud-native systems (modernization, not just migration)
• Lead and contribute to the design and delivery of cloud-native applications: observable, resilient, secure by default, and independently deployable.
• Guide teams through legacy modernization efforts that result in true cloud-native characteristics-clear service boundaries, independent deployability, container readiness, and appropriate use of managed platform services-not simply moving existing systems to cloud infrastructure.
• Help teams make pragmatic hosting decisions (IaaS vs. PaaS, VMs vs. containers/Kubernetes) based on system constraints, maturity, and desired outcomes.
• Build API first systems across protocols
• Design, build, and evolve APIs with strong contract discipline, backward compatibility strategies, and a focus on consumer experience.
• Bring broad experience consuming and producing multiple API styles and protocols, including:
• SOAP / WCFstyle services
• RESTful APIs (including hypermedia / HATEOAS where appropriate)
• gRPC
• Understand and articulate the tradeoffs between these approaches-latency, coupling, discoverability, versioning, tooling, and evolution-and guide teams on when each is appropriate.
• Build AI powered products (not demos)
• Contribute to systems that integrate AI/ML capabilities into real, customer facing products, including (but not limited to) GenAI features and agents.
• Help teams reason about model behavior, failure modes, system boundaries,

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Additional Information

R0055254 - Principal Product Software Engineer Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer delivers expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with advanced technology, enabling professionals to make better decisions, stay compliant with complex regulations, and improve outcomes. Its portfolio spans industries such as Health, Tax & Accounting, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), and Legal & Regulatory. Innovation, digital transformation, and responsible business practices are core to Wolters Kluwer's long-term strategy. Twinfield , part of Wolters Kluwer, is a cloud‑based accounting software solution designed for businesses and accounting professionals. It streamlines financial administration by automating bookkeeping, invoicing, cash flow management, and reporting in real time. Twinfield is known for its strong compliance capabilities, security, and integration options, making it well suited for SMEs, international organizations, and accounting firms. You will be part of the 'Tech B.V.' team, which focuses on development, service and delivery of technology solutions that support Twinfield's digital products and services. Why this role exists We're looking for a Principal Engineer who makes engineering teams meaningfully better. Not by introducing the newest framework or rewriting everything, but by improving how problems are understood, how systems are designed, and how value moves from idea to production. You've helped organizations ship faster and with higher quality by changing engineering practices, not just codebases. This role is for someone who operates at the intersection of architecture, engineering effectiveness, and modern AI-enabled development, with a strong bias toward rigor, clarity, and measurable outcomes.

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