Principal Software Engineer

Job overview

The Principal Software Engineer role is hybrid in the Boston, MA area, with regular time at the Somerville office and Eastern Time working hours. Compensation is not specified; the posting describes it as competitive. Northern Light builds the SinglePoint machine-learning-powered competitive intelligence and market research platform used by large enterprises. The role exists to improve the content pipeline and expand into ownership across the platform, making vendor content reliable and searchable for customers. It contributes to platform modernization by migrating legacy systems, improving production workflows, and applying AI to content processing and software development.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain ingestion for vendor feeds and customers
• shape content transformation into a consistent format
• migrate legacy pipelines, including Perl to Python and toward containerized services
• help replace convention-driven scheduling with durable workflows
• diagnose production content problems
• use ML, NLP, LLMs, and AI tools to classify, enrich, and validate content
• work across backend services and customer portals using PHP and React/TypeScript.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

principal software engineer

hybrid

boston ma area

somerville ma office

northern light

content pipelines

python

rust

perl

machine learning

nlp and llms

react and typescript

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Competitive salary and benefits are mentioned without numeric compensation details
• professional growth opportunities, regular team offsites, and cross-functional collaboration.

Why this role

The role spans a mature, revenue-earning platform from vendor feeds through customer portals, with AI at the center of development. The posting states that visa sponsorship is not available.

About the employer

Northern Light is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.