# Principal Engineer at Wagmo

- Company: Wagmo
- What the company does: Wagmo provides the best pet insurance and pet wellness plans that won't break the bank. We go above and beyond what other typical Pet Insurance Companies cover. Backed by Techstars.
- Company website: https://wagmo.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York (Preferred) or Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-01
- Apply by: 2026-11-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wagmo/b98348bc-2d3e-4fff-8714-37627cd44e58?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wagmo-principal-engineer/

## About the role

As Principal Engineer at Wagmo, you will be the named owner of our application architecture. Wagmo sells pet wellness and insurance directly to consumers and through employers, brokers, and benefits administrators. Over the past two years we moved our insurance program to a new carrier partner and built a provider-agnostic interface to make that possible. It works, and it is not finished: two generations of models still coexist behind feature flags, and the legacy path has to be supported for years. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- A track record of retiring and scaling systems, not just building them. You have lived inside a half-migrated codebase running two paths in parallel and know what it takes, organizationally as well as technically, to finish
- Depth in Python and Django, relational data modeling, and third-party integration at scale. Familiarity with Kubernetes and GCP is useful, you will not own the cluster
- Experience putting non-deterministic systems into production, with real opinions about evaluation, versioning, and who is allowed to change a model's behavior
- The judgment to say what not to build, and the written and verbal clarity to carry that argument with people who outrank you
- Comfort that "principal" here means unblocking two squads rather than presiding over ten. Experience in insurance, benefits, payments, healthcare, or another regulated, integration-heavy domain is a strong plus

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wagmo-principal-engineer/