Principal Software Architect

About the Position

As Principal Software Architect, you will define and drive the future technology architecture for Hii Retail, a cloud-native SaaS platform for leading retailers, ensuring it scales with resilience, efficiency, and technical excellence. You will own the end-to-end technical architecture and act as the bridge between strategic vision and engineering execution, aligning long-term direction with day-to-day delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the future technology architecture for Hii Retail.
• Own the end-to-end technical architecture.
• Act as the bridge between strategic vision and engineering execution.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Site Reliability Engineering, and Developer Enablement to align architecture with business goals.
• Lead the Solution Review Board to ensure new systems and architectural changes meet standards for scalability, quality, and long-term sustainability.
• Set the strategic direction for AI across product capabilities and engineering efficiency.

Requirements

• Extensive experience as a senior, principal, or chief architect in a SaaS or technology-led company.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems and cloud native architectures, GCP preferred.
• Solid understanding of MACH principles, Microservices, API first, Cloud native, Headless.
• Experience with DevOps, platform engineering, and developer enablement.
• Experience working with AI, including Agentic AI, and modern development practices.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex topics to both technical and business stakeholders.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a leading retail software development company.
• Be part of a team that brings simplicity to retail and logistic complex problems.
• Work in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

About the Company

With 40+ years of experience as an industry leader in retail software development, Extenda Retail's solutions are used by hundreds of retail chains in 37+ countries worldwide and processing over 25M daily transactions. Extenda Retail brings simplicity to retail and logistic complex problems. Through software, daily customer management, innovation, creativity, and a deep understanding of customers' needs it provides the technology that helps retailers succeed. From warehouse to checkout.

Locations

• Göteborg, Sweden
• Solna, Sweden