Crossing Hurdles is a global recruitment consultancy assisting one of Europe’s leading software investors’ AI product incubators in hiring a Principal Software Engineer to build and scale real-world AI products used by thousands of customers worldwide.
This team operates like a serial startup engine — launching revenue-generating AI products inside established B2B businesses, combining startup ownership with enterprise scale.
Required Experience
- 10–15 years full-stack engineering experience
- Built customer-facing products from 0→1
- Startup / founding-team or early-stage environment experience
- Experience building B2B SaaS applications
- Hands-on AI/ML product experience (LLMs, agentic systems)
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field
- Comfortable working with C-suite stakeholders
- Proven ability to mentor and lead engineers
What You’ll Do
- Remain hands‑on in architecture and coding for critical systems
- Build and mentor high-performance engineering teams
- Drive real-world AI adoption across industries
- Partner with executives and product leaders as a technical co‑leader
- Own technical decisions impacting large customer bases from day one
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