Principal Engineering Lead

**Job Title:** Principal Engineer Lead **Location:** Remote **Employment Type:** Full\-Time **About Us:** Amira Learning accelerates literacy outcomes by delivering the latest reading and neuroscience with AI. As the leader in third\-generation edtech, Amira listens to students read out loud, assesses mastery, helps teachers supplement instruction and delivers 1:1 tutoring. Validated by independent university and SEA efficacy research, Amira is the only AI literacy platform proven to achieve gains surpassing 1:1 human tutoring, consistently delivering effect sizes over 0\.4\. Rooted in over thirty years of research, Amira is the first, foremost, and only proven Intelligent Assistant for teachers and AI Reading Tutor for students. The platform serves as a school district’s Intelligent Growth Engine, driving instructional coherence by unifying assessment, instruction, and tutoring around the chosen curriculum. Unlike any other edtech tool, Amira continuously identifies each student’s skill gaps and collaborates with teachers to build lesson plans aligned with district curricula, pulling directly from the district’s high\-quality instructional materials. Teachers can finally differentiate instruction with evidence and ease, and students get the 1:1 practice they specifically need, whether they are excelling or working below grade level. Trusted by more than 2,000 districts and working in partnership with twelve state education agencies, Amira is helping 3\.5 million students worldwide become motivated and masterful readers. **Job Summary:** We’re looking for a Principal Engineer Lead to drive the design and development services that power Amira’s AI\-based suite of educational products. This is an individual contributor role for an experienced engineer who can take ownership of complex systems and act as a technical lead within a small, high\-velocity team. You’ll operate with significant autonomy, move fast, and have outsized impact on the product and the team—owning not just technical output but team delivery, flow, and system\-level effectiveness. You’ll build services and data pipelines that deliver insights to districts, support internal analytics, and drive product experiences, while translating product and business goals into clear technical direction and guiding the team in execution. The work spans backend APIs to distributed data workflows, all within a cloud\-native architecture. This role operates in an AI\-first development paradigm. You’ll spend more time on system design, intent specification, and rapid iteration than on line\-by\-line manual implementation—and you’ll bring the team along on that journey. We’re looking for someone who sees AI\-assisted development not as an add\-on, but as the primary way modern software gets built, and who can demonstrate what that looks like in practice for a high\-performing team. You’ll wear multiple hats, operate in ambiguity, and make decisions without waiting for permissi