We're Hiring: Principal Dev - Team Lead / Architect – BergamoLocation: Bergamo, Italy (with partial remote working options)About Us:Octostar is bringing a new offering in investigative and decision-intelligence to law-enforcement, national-security, and financial-crime professionals. Our AI-native, cloud-native platform already protects people worldwide and is built for massive / petabyte scale. Backed by top investors and domain leaders, we reward colleagues who want their technical skill to make a global impact.See what we do in action: @octostar-comWe’re looking for a key role here: Principal Software Architect / Team LeadWhat You'll Do:Together with the technical cofounder give key contributions and validation to the architecture and technical direction while remaining a strong hands-on contributor.Own the product delivery pipeline - break down big product goals into clear, prioritised work-streams and assign them to the right people.Review designs, interfaces, and code for quality, security, performance, and cost-efficiency.Partner with Product and stakeholders to ship the highest-impact increments every iteration.Grow and mentor the team from today’s 15+ engineers to 40+ by the end of next year, fostering a culture of excellence.What We’re Looking For:Proven history as a principal or senior software engineer leading architecture in distributed and or cloud enterprise products.Current hands-on development skills with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.Proven experience in a multitude of backends ideally search systems (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar) and other SQL / NOSQL - distributed system development experience.Enterprise-grade security know-how across build pipelines, release processes, and runtime.Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes on at least one major cloud provider.Strong system-administration fundamentals and DevOps mindset.Excellent leadership and English-communication skills; able to influence across functions.Salary depending on seniority, range from 70k to 90+k - Principal level Stock Option package - other benefits.