[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer @JobGet

Role Description

We are looking for an exceptional and ambitious engineer who enjoys architecting systems, working in an agile start-up development environment, and leveraging AI to redefine engineering velocity. As an engineer on our team, you will focus on backend development across all our products.

• You will be the engineer others look to when the problem is hard, the path forward is unclear, or the stakes are high.
• As a key individual contributor, you won't just build; you will bridge the gap between engineering and the broader business.
• Translate long-term goals into technical reality while modeling the engineering best practices that elevate our entire organization.
• Thrive in building scalable, flexible systems with an emphasis on improving maintainability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a demonstrated track record of leading and executing technically complex, high-impact initiatives from inception through delivery.
• Recent experience working on a small, agile team contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle in a start-up environment.
• Primary experience in Go, comfortable working across existing .NET and TypeScript codebases.
• Experience implementing event-driven architecture within microservices ecosystems using tools like Apache Kafka.
• Experience creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
• Strong experience with AWS platforms, including an understanding of their capabilities and limitations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Proven ability to operate across organizational lines, comfortable influencing without authority, building consensus among diverse teams, and driving decisions that require alignment across product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Deep software engineering fundamentals, with experience in multi-product architectures.
• Experience working in an environment shaped by acquisitions or rapid growth, with an appreciation for the technical and cultural complexity that comes with it.
• A track record of making well-reasoned technical decisions, evaluating options carefully, and pushing back on the first solution when a better one exists.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A bias for ownership, taking projects seriously from start to finish, holding yourself accountable for outcomes, and proactively identifying and resolving risk before it becomes a problem.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a builder's mindset, thriving when the path forward isn't defined, enjoying working through complexity, solving tough problems, and enabling others to move faster.

Requirements

• High Contribution: Maintain a high bar for individual execution by writing clean, efficient, and production-ready code.
• Rigorous Testing & Validation: Lead by example in code quality by defining testing standards and utilizing AI to generate robust test suites and edge-case discovery.
• Proactive Problem Solving: Identify and execute fixes for deep-seated bottlenecks, architectural bugs, and performance issues.
• Modernize Tooling: Evaluate and integrate emerging AI-powered tools to enhance operational efficiency and developer productivity.
• System Design & Scalability: Lead architectural evaluations and design reviews to ensure systems remain flexible and scalable.
• QA Partnership: Partner effectively with QA to define test strategies and improve automated testing coverage.
• Operational Health: Lead incident response and postmortem processes, establishing best practices to prevent recurrence of high-severity issues.
• Champion Standards: Maintain code quality, organization, and automation across the broader engineering organization.
• Technical Multiplier: Elevate the engineers around you through rigorous code reviews and design feedback.
• Lead Technical Discussions: Move teams to decisions, ensuring the best ideas surface regardless of where they originate.
• Foster Accountability: Champion a culture of quality, where engineers take pride in end-to-end ownership and technical excellence.

Benefits

• Purpose-driven organization
• Flexible time off
• Remote-first
• Flexible work hours - our employees are in multiple time zones
• Medical & dental plans
• Parental leave
• Employee stock options