Principal Software Engineer, Order

About this role

Olo is a leading SaaS platform accelerating digital transformation in the restaurant industry, by helping customers deliver more personalised and profitable guest experiences. As a result, our digital ordering, payment, and guest engagement solutions enable brands to do more with less and make every guest feel like a regular.


While our roots are in NYC, we’re intentionally investing in Belfast and Northern Ireland as a key hub, with an established leadership presence, a local team, and community for the long term. This role is fully remote, offering you flexibility to work from anywhere within NI.


Your new role


The pinnacle of technical leadership, Principal Engineers at Olo shape the organisation’s technical vision, mentor engineers at all levels, and oversee the design of critical, large-scale systems. As part of the ‘Order Engineering’ team, you’ll align technical strategies with business goals, ensure consistency across domains, and lead cross-functional initiatives.


This will be the first ever Principal Engineer level hire in Belfast, so there's an opportunity to make a lasting impact as we continue to grow the engineering team locally. This position reports directly to our Belfast based VP of Engineering.


How You’ll Make An Impact

• Own the architecture and technology vision across multiple teams and domains, driving the technical direction for the organisation and influencing long-term strategic initiatives
• Act as a senior technical advisor, mentoring staff engineers, tech leads, and senior engineers, helping them grow into leadership roles and technical experts
• Lead the design and implementation of the most critical and complex systems, ensuring they are built with scalability, reliability, and resilience in mind
• Partner with senior leadership, product managers, and other stakeholders to define technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology strategies
• Oversees the integration and i...