Principal Engineer / Architect

Home Solutions is a fast-growing company focused on digitizing the home services vertical. They are seeking a Vice President / Principal Software Engineer and Architect to lead the architecture and development of critical systems, ensuring scalability and performance while mentoring a high-performing engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and define the architecture of our backend systems, ensuring they scale with the needs of the business
• Architect and guide the build of marketing technologies, predictive systems, and intelligent decisioning engines supporting the home-services consumer journey
• Own and evolve core backend systems, including: Lead Management Platform (intelligent routing, partner integrations, auctions) and Ad Targeting & Conversion Upload Systems (real-time pipelines optimizing platform feedback loops)
• Oversee infrastructure, codebases, and data flows across lead management, conversion upload systems, and backend integrations
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap creation across backend engineering and integrations. Collaborate with data engineering and front-end teams
• Partner with business, product, and data leaders to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and scalability goals
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to evaluate new technologies, architecture patterns, and long-term platform investments
• Demonstrate deep technical expertise by designing and building high-scale, high-reliability systems
• Implement scalable services using modern languages and frameworks (e.g., Elixir Phoenix, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Build cloud-native systems leveraging modern DevOps and AWS practices: IaC, CI/CD, identity management, observability, cost-optimized service design
• Integrate predictive models, decisioning frameworks, and real-time data pipelines into mission-critical workflows
• Apply an AI-superuser mindset - using AI-driven tooling, automation, and workflows to accelerate engineering output and quality
• Take ownership of complex problems and deliver high-impact solutions with speed, clarity, and craftsmanship
• Mentor a team of software and data engineers, supporting their technical growth and delivery
• Establish and uphold best practices for testing, code quality, automation, security, and system reliability
• Provide architectural guidance, conduct deep technical reviews, and support engineers in making strong, scalable design decisions
• Foster a mindset of high ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across the engineering team
• Create clarity in technical decision-making and help maintain a fast-paced, accountable environment

Requirements:

• 8+ years of engineering experience with increasing architectural and technical leadership responsibility
• Significant experience designing and owning enterprise tech stacks for high-growth or complex digital businesses
• Deep expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and modern API protocols
• Experience with cloud infrastructure design in AWS
• Programming expertise in languages such as Elixir, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Strong communicator able to partner effectively with Product, Data Science, and business stakeholders
• Comfortable owning ambiguous, high-impact problems and driving them to completion
• Proactive risk mitigation mindset with high urgency when critical issues arise
• Motivated by autonomy, craftsmanship, and leveraging automation or AI to deliver better, faster outcomes
• Data Architecture and Engineering Experience
• Experience building or integrating modern data warehouses and pipelines (Postgres, Airflow, Fivetran)
• Strong SQL skills and experience with PostgreSQL and high-volume transactional systems