Collaborate on designing and implementing system architecture, technical strategy, and engineering standards.
Lead technical initiatives across teams, ensuring alignment with architectural direction and goals.
Build and maintain platform-level components, services, and libraries that enhance engineering efficiency and system maintainability.
Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and hands-on guidance.
Contribute directly to both server-side and client-side development across the entire stack.
Write and review technical design documents, system diagrams, and reference implementations.
Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks, and best practices to continuously improve our platform.
Enhance observability, performance, scalability, and security throughout our system.
Share knowledge and insights to foster team growth and improvement.

Experienced:
A principal engineer, lead full-stack engineer, or someone with relevant experience in similar roles.
Highly skilled in both server-side and client-side software development.
Technically Proficient:
Familiar with cloud development (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).
Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD), RESTful APIs, React, MVC frameworks, and security concerns (e.g., XSS attacks).
Fundamentally Strong in Computer Science Concepts:
You can explain concepts like Big O notation, pointers, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures such as arrays, sets, and linked lists.
Database-Savvy:
Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases, and understand operations like CRUD, indexes, and joins.
Cloud Infrastructure Expert:
Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora) and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
Customer-Centric:
Passionate about clean code and building customer-driven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability.
All team members at LawnStarter are expected to embody our core values which are: Be data-driven, Get shit done, People are critical, Challenge the status quo, Be scrappy, and Be the Customer.

Healthcare benefits: Medical, dental, and vision
Fully remote position: Work remotely from anywhere you want.
Unlimited PTO: We focus on results. Take the time you need to recharge or enjoy life, work hard when you are back.

Principal Software Engineer

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