Are you looking for a big opportunity and want to invest heavily in your career while being a part of scaling a technical organisation? If so, keep on reading! We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer for our growing Product team.

The opportunity and what we offer

Formalize is on a scaling journey with significant traction across Europe. As our new Principal Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and tackle significant problems to make a meaningful impact in our Product and Development team. Seize this distinctive chance to contribute to shaping Formalize's products growth narrative.

• Be part of a fast-growing international SaaS company
• High level of trust
• Be part of a social, diverse, and international team

A competitive salary level between 96.000 and 109.000 DKK.

Responsibilities:

• Build maintainable, flexible software solutions grounded in core domain-driven design principles—designed to scale alongside the team
• Help shape and drive technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with broader business goals
• Influence high-level design and architectural decisions that span across multiple teams and projects
• Own projects end-to-end, navigating and solving complex problems along the way
• Maintain a strong business perspective, ensuring engineering decisions support long-term strategic objectives
• Mentor and support multiple teams through technical complexity, contributing to a unified, forward-looking roadmap
• Mentor senior engineers and serve as a trusted sparring partner—raising the technical bar beyond your immediate team
• Act in a positive way, empowering others to achieve greater impact
• Coordinate communication amongst team & stakeholders, clearly communicating technical goals & linking these to company goals
• Clearly communicating complex issues to diverse audiences inside & outside

the company

• Act as a catalyst for technological decisions, elevating the quality and impact of our engineering practices across the organization
• Defining and executing enterprise-level technical strategies that shape long-term innovation
• Architecting highly resilient, scalable, and secure systems that set the benchmark for industry best practices
• Establishing and refining technical frameworks that unify and streamline efforts across multiple teams
• Designing, implementing, and troubleshooting major portions of our production stack

• At times, working with executive teams on high level technical guidance
• Focusing on highest impact, most critical, future-facing decisions and guidance, advancing us technically and affecting business success

• Overall ownership for the scoping, designing, and proposed solutions for large, complex problems related to our product
• Successfully plan and deliver complex, multi-team or system, long-term projects, including ones with external dependencies

Qualifications and about you:

Professional:

• Have a strong grasp of fundamentals and deep knowledge within them; object-oriented programming, common design patterns, system design & testing methodologies
  • Tried and tested different approaches to software, and have seen the pros and cons
  • Broad knowledge and knowhow of what it takes to build software that is prepared for rapid development
• One or more server-side languages. We primarily use PHP (a few services written in Typescript), and know you are capable of learning a new language
• One or more frontend frameworks, including an understand of what complex state-management means and how to handle this in growing applications. We use Angular
• Good testing practices and familiarity with one or more testing frameworks (Vitest, Pest)
• Experience of leading technically, including working alongside executive teams or founders
• Possess a deep knowledge of current & emerging technologies affecting the industry
• Track record of designing for scale & reliability, with the future in mind

Personal:

• Are the visionary architect who establishes a long-term technical strategy and drives enterprise-level innovation
• Are trusted advisors to executive leadership, consistently influencing company-wide technical direction and strategic decisions
• Are curious by nature and keep up to date with modern innovations in the space
• Are able to receive and provide relevant and honest feedback
• Are the go-to person for solving problems at an organizational level
• Enjoy continuously improving productivity for others

Our tech-stack includes:

• Angular, including RxJS and observables
• Declarative programming principles
• Global state-management through NgRx
• TailwindCSS for styling
• PostgreSQL and general relational database principles
• PHP and Laravel
• Caching mechanisms through Redis
• Considerations for deploying to a serverless infrastructure using AWS

About Formalize

Formalize is a tech company founded in 2021 with offices in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Milan and Madrid. Currently we are a team of +140 people from 13 nationalities operating in multiple European markets and are one of the fastest growing SaaS scale-ups.

Our journey started within the whistleblowing compliance sector, highlighted by the award-winning Whistleblower Software by Formalize, laying the foundation of our success story.

This initial chapter has been within whistleblowing compliance and meeting those regulations. Along the way we established strong partnerships and a base of satisfied customers. Our commitment was recognized through the best customer support, which earned us reputation as a customer-centric pioneer. But now, we extended our expertise to a larger compliance universe including data compliance, risk and privacy.

Formalize helps companies to effortlessly navigate and stay ahead in the ever-changing landscape of compliance. Our platform adapts to regulatory changes, continuously adapting to meet, and foresee, the evolving needs of our users - ensuring businesses remain compliant and confident in their operations.

Traits that describe our culture and employees:

• We are all very goal orienteered and hardworking
• We are responsible, and we like accountability
• We are connecting, and we like to build meaningful relationships
• We are optimistic and like to laugh and have a positive atmosphere
• We like to dream big and to have clear visions for the future

Test in the recruitment process

In the recruitment process, we use talent profiles. You will therefore receive a link to the test after sending your application.

Experience shows that it provides the best experience for both candidates and us as a company. It's not about answering right or wrong, but whether one's talents match the context you will work in. We want to hire a colleague who really thrives and flourishes with us, and therefore we are looking for the employee who will be a good fit with Whistleblower Software in relation to

• Fit between the person and work tasks
• Fit between the person and the colleagues in the team
• Fit between the person and the role

We know that when this is staged optimally, you thrive and succeed much better in your job.

Recruitment Process

1. Send application and upload relevant information
2. Recruiter screen 30mins (Neil)
3. HM Interview 30mins - Emil & Magnus
4. Technical Interview 60mins - Emil & Magnus (planning/system design session)
5. Completion of personality test & Meet the Team 30mins - Technical interests, team fit/coffee chat

Apply by attaching your resume and other relevant information and you will hear from us soon!

We will hold interviews and hire on an ongoing basis. For more information or questions please contact the responsible recruiter in the Talent team.