Principal Software Engineer

LawnStarter is transforming the outdoor home services industry and is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help drive the next generation of their platform. The role involves collaborating with the Software Architect and other engineers to design system architecture, lead technical initiatives, and mentor team members.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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)
• You can explain concepts like Big O notation, pointers, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures such as arrays, sets, and linked lists
• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases, and understand operations like CRUD, indexes, and joins
• Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora) and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
• Passionate about clean code and building customer-driven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability