Stride

• Generate and qualify leads through multiple channels, including: • Active participation in industry events, conferences, and weekly NYC metro events • Cold and warm outreach and campaigns (email, LinkedIn, phone, ABM) • Leveraging both Stride’s company connections and your personal network • Secure first meetings with prospects and convert networking activity into a consistent stream of qualified leads • Present Stride’s unique AI-accelerated services and products to technology executives and their teams facing challenges with legacy systems, productivity, or delivery • Utilize consultative skills to uncover needs by asking thoughtful, curious questions and tailoring conversations on the spot • Maintain a highly organized pipeline with detailed, data-driven tracking in CRM • Explore, identify and execute new ways to generate leads.

• Design, build, test, and maintain modern software applications across backend and frontend systems. • Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations that support high-performance applications. • Build modern frontend experiences using frameworks such as React, NextJS, or similar technologies. • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following modern engineering practices. • Work across multiple programming languages and ecosystems depending on project needs. • Participate actively in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical design sessions. • Utilize modern development tools and AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve productivity and code quality. • Integrate AI-enabled capabilities into applications when appropriate, such as LLM-powered features or automation workflows. • Experiment with emerging technologies such as LangChain, Model Context Protocol (MCP), or similar frameworks. • Collaborate with teammates to evaluate where AI technologies can improve product capabilities or engineering processes. • Apply pragmatic engineering judgment when adopting new tools and technologies. • Partner closely with Product Managers and Product Owners to refine backlogs and clarify requirements. • Break down complex work into well-scoped, estimable user stories and technical tasks. • Provide reliable estimates and contribute to sprint and release planning. • Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives. • Contribute to a culture of transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • Support delivery of high-quality software within Agile development environments. • Work directly with client stakeholders as part of delivery teams. • Participate in technical discussions, demos, and solution walkthroughs. • Communicate clearly about tradeoffs, risks, and implementation approaches. • Contribute to building strong client relationships through high-quality engineering work.

• Design, build, test, and maintain modern software applications across backend and frontend systems. • Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations that support high-performance applications. • Build modern frontend experiences using frameworks such as React, NextJS, or similar technologies. • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following modern engineering practices. • Work across multiple programming languages and ecosystems depending on project needs. • Participate actively in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical design sessions. • Leverage modern development tooling, including AI-assisted coding and engineering workflows, to improve productivity and quality. • Integrate AI-enabled capabilities into development workflows when appropriate, such as adoption of agent tools or automated documentation. • Experiment with emerging technologies to improve the software development lifecycle. • Help teams evaluate where AI capabilities can enhance software systems or development workflows. • Partner closely with Product Managers and Product Owners to refine backlogs and clarify requirements. • Break down complex work into well-scoped, estimable user stories and technical tasks. • Provide reliable estimates and contribute to sprint and release planning. • Inspect and adapt through retrospectives, continuously improving team delivery and engineering practices. • Serve as a technical leader on delivery teams, helping guide architecture and implementation decisions. • Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers to translate requirements into technical solutions. • Help estimate work, identify risks, and contribute to delivery planning and execution. • Support technical discovery and feasibility assessments during early phases of engagements. • Work directly with client stakeholders to understand technical requirements and constraints. • Participate in technical discussions, demos, and solution walkthroughs. • Communicate clearly about tradeoffs, risks, and implementation approaches. • Promote engineering standards around quality, testing, security, and performance. • Leverage modern tooling, automation, and AI-assisted development to improve productivity and quality. • Contribute to internal engineering patterns, documentation, and shared components. • Stay current with modern full-stack and cloud-native best practices.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack applications across backend and frontend layers. • Build scalable backend services and APIs that support high-performance, data-driven applications. • Develop modern, responsive frontend experiences with a strong focus on usability and performance. • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following engineering best practices. • Participate actively in code reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making. • Partner closely with Product Managers and Product Owners to refine backlogs and clarify requirements. • Break down complex work into well-scoped, estimable user stories and technical tasks. • Provide reliable estimates and contribute to sprint and release planning. • Inspect and adapt through retrospectives, continuously improving team delivery and engineering practices. • Support a culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Design and integrate cloud-based services and messaging systems to support distributed architectures. • Build and support data integrations and pipelines across relational, NoSQL, and analytics platforms. • Ensure applications are secure, observable, and production-ready. • Partner with DevOps and platform teams to support deployments, monitoring, and reliability. • Serve as a technical leader on delivery teams, helping guide architecture and implementation decisions. • Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers to translate requirements into technical solutions. • Help estimate work, identify risks, and contribute to delivery planning and execution. • Support technical discovery and feasibility assessments during early phases of engagements. • Work directly with client stakeholders to understand technical requirements and constraints. • Participate in technical discussions, demos, and solution walkthroughs. • Communicate clearly about tradeoffs, risks, and implementation approaches. • Represent engineering best practices in client-facing environments. • Promote engineering standards around quality, testing, security, and performance. • Leverage modern tooling, automation, and AI-assisted development to improve productivity and quality. • Contribute to internal engineering patterns, documentation, and shared components. • Stay current with modern full-stack and cloud-native best practices.

• Design and build scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails and React • Drive technical architecture decisions and establish coding patterns for maintainable, high-quality software • Lead technical initiatives from discovery through deployment • Scope requirements, evaluate approaches, and coordinate implementation across teams • Implement automated testing strategies and maintain code quality through test-driven development practices • Work with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions • Facilitate technical discussions and drive consensus across engineering, product, and business stakeholders

About Stride Consulting Stride is an AI-Powered software engineering firm built to deliver real results. We combine elite engineering talent with cutting-edge GenAI tooling to help companies build high-quality software, modernize legacy systems, and future-proof their tech orgs. We are trusted technology partners with some of the biggest names revolutionizing the tech industry. From scaling startups to iconic Fortune 500 companies, we help our clients reach their goals by providing collaborative high-end technical consulting, agile transformation, and product delivery. What We Are Looking For Stride is seeking a Delivery Principal to support the continued growth and scaling of our delivery organization. As Stride expands, this role is critical to ensuring we maintain a consistently high bar for client outcomes, delivery excellence, and technical credibility across all engagements. The Delivery Principal is accountable for driving successful delivery at scale, ensuring teams are set up for success, engagements remain healthy, and clients experience Stride as a trusted, high-impact partner. This role blends strategic delivery leadership with hands-on technical contribution, enabling Stride to grow without sacrificing quality, trust, or execution rigor. This is not a purely strategic role. The Delivery Principal balances executive-level delivery leadership with direct technical execution, serving as a trusted advisor to clients and a force multiplier for Stride’s engineering teams. Why Stride Learn, practice, teach. You’ve invested in your career to become a great Software Engineer, now it’s time to share it with the most exciting tech companies who are dying to become more product and user-centric! At Stride, you’ll work with excellent teams who care about adding value and improving themselves and everyone around them. Work for one company, impact many! Key Responsibilities Client Leadership & Commercial Impact • Act as a senior delivery leader and trusted advisor for complex client engagements. • Build credibility quickly with executive and technical stakeholders. • Communicate technical concepts in clear, business-aligned language. • Support new business development by contributing delivery leadership and technical confidence during pre-sales and early engagements. • Research client domains and technology stacks to rapidly become a subject-matter expert. Delivery Ownership & Quality Assurance • Own delivery outcomes across active engagements. • Proactively assess project health and identify delivery risk. • Step into challenged engagements to diagnose issues and drive recovery. • Ensure teams are staffed appropriately and operating effectively. • Establish delivery practices that promote predictability, transparency, and quality. Team Formation, Enablement & Up-skilling • Build, launch, and lead high-performing delivery teams. • Evaluate team effectiveness and adjust structure or leadership as needed. • Mentor engineers and delivery leaders to raise technical and execution standards. • Invest approximately 60% of time in strategic enablement, coaching, and team development. Hands-on Technical Contribution • Maintain active technical credibility through direct contribution when required. • Be comfortable contributing to codebases, architecture decisions, and technical problem-solving. • Use hands-on execution to earn trust and unblock teams. • Allocate approximately 40% of time to hands-on technical or architecturally involved work as delivery needs demand. Technical & Consulting Skills • Broad software engineering fluency across modern web and cloud technologies. • Comfortable discussing front-end (React, TypeScript, responsive design) and back-end concepts (REST APIs, microservices, JVM stacks like Java/Spring, Node, Ruby, etc.) in ways stakeholders understand. • Adept at diagnosis and remediation of delivery issues across architectural, team, and process dimensions. • Experienced with agile delivery frameworks and practices (TDD, iteration planning, continuous integration/delivery, etc.) and able to coach teams toward improved maturity. • Cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and database fundamentals, with ability to partner with engineers to design solutions that meet non-functional requirements. • Hands-on experience applying AI and machine learning capabilities in production systems, including leveraging modern AI/GenAI tools to improve product functionality, delivery efficiency, or developer productivity. Success Metrics • High client satisfaction and retention. • Predictable, healthy delivery across engagements. • Rapid identification and remediation of delivery risk. • High-performing teams that improve over time. • Contribution to new business wins through delivery credibility. Ideal Background • 10+ years of experience in software delivery or consulting environments. • Proven success leading client-facing delivery for complex engagements. • Demonstrated ability to balance strategy, people leadership, and hands-on execution. • Strong consulting mindset with deep technical roots. Stride Consulting is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Stride Consulting is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.