[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer @Foundant + smartsimple

Role Description

This role has two centers of gravity. You'll be dispatched into product teams to help design and implement solutions, solve hard engineering problems, and you'll own the shared services that every one of our products depends on.

• Embed with product teams across our portfolio to take on their hardest technical problems and deliver working code.
• Own architectural decisions at both the application and service level.
• Oversee changes to Foundant's shared services, along with their ongoing production care and feeding.
• Diagnose systemic and architectural issues that cross component and service boundaries.
• Lead solution design on significant initiatives, bringing a small group of engineers along with clear, well-articulated direction.
• Set the standard for how AI-assisted development is used well at Foundant.
• Move fluidly across products, domains, and service boundaries, leaving each team better equipped than you found it.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time at a principal, staff, or equivalent senior individual contributor level.
• Demonstrated mastery of architectural patterns and the judgment to know which apply in a given context, at both the application and service level.
• Deep expertise in one or two of the technologies in our stack, with the ability to become productive in the others (Java, C#, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python, and Flutter).
• Proven experience owning production services, including reliability, performance, and incident response.
• Professional experience using AI-assisted development tools in production work.
• Experience diagnosing complex issues that span multiple components, services, or teams.
• Must be legally eligible to work in the United States or Canada.

Requirements

• Adaptive Achievement: Moves between unfamiliar codebases, domains, and problem spaces without losing momentum, and delivers high-quality solutions under shifting priorities and incomplete context.
• Productive Collaboration: Leads engineers through complex initiatives by influence rather than authority.
• Service Orientation: Treats internal engineering teams as clients, understanding the reliability of a shared service.
• Business Insight: Weighs the blast radius of shared-service decisions across every product and client.
• Active Learning: Builds working depth in unfamiliar stacks quickly and applies rigorous judgment to AI-generated code.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits, including tuition and lifestyle reimbursements, and bespoke mindfulness and fitness initiatives.
• Flexible PTO policy, allowing you to manage your time for personal well-being and professional success.
• Commitment to professional and personal development with opportunities for collaboration across teams.
• Support for internal mobility to help you achieve your career goals.
• Autonomy and responsibility, empowering creative and independent work.
• Employee recognition as a core part of our culture.