Principal Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Architect, write, and maintain reusable, testable, and efficient code (Clean Code / SOLID principles).
• Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications across the full stack.
• Lead front-end (Vue/Vuex) and back-end (.NET) development, setting patterns and standards for the team.
• Own SQL database architecture and query performance across your team’s domains.
• Drive adoption of microservice and micro front-end architecture best practices.
• Share in DevOps responsibilities and champion observability tooling and practices.
• Participate in and often facilitate agile (Scrum/Kanban) ceremonies for your team.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 3–4 developers, providing technical direction, code review, and career guidance.
• Navigate ambiguity and fast-changing priorities — helping your team stay focused and effective when requirements shift.
• Manage and coordinate across multiple time zones, ensuring remote team members are included, unblocked, and aligned.
• Build and sustain a strong remote team culture through intentional relationship-building, async communication practices, and virtual team rituals.
• Organize and run effective remote ceremonies — standups, retros, and planning sessions — that create genuine connection and accountability.
• Participate actively in a cross-team leadership forum where engineering leads share learnings, align on practices, and collectively influence engineering culture beyond their own teams.
• Bring insights from your team’s work and challenges to the broader group, and apply lessons from peers back to your team.
• Help identify and resolve systemic issues — tooling gaps, process bottlenecks, knowledge silos — that affect multiple teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience required; 15+ years strongly preferred.
• Proven experience leading a team of developers in a remote or hybrid environment.
• Experience managing or collaborating across multiple time zones.
• Strong async communication skills — comfortable with written documentation, structured async workflows, and remote-first practices.
• Ability to operate and deliver in fast-paced, ambiguous environments without loss of quality or team morale.
• Experience facilitating cross-team engineering forums, communities of practice, or similar leadership collaboration.
• Development experience in Vue.js 2 or 3, Vuetify, Vuex.
• .NET Framework / .NET Core / .NET 7–8 / C# proficiency.
• REST API design and implementation.

Tech Stack

• JavaScript
• SQL
• Vue.js
• .NET

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities