Principal Software Engineer

Everfi is a leading education technology company that delivers digital learning solutions focused on real-world skills. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Front-end) to set the technical standard for system architecture and engineering, leading complex projects and mentoring less experienced engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain the most complex components of the software platform — including core system services, high-reliability infrastructure, critical APIs, and integration architecture — with a standard of quality, performance, and maintainability that serves as the benchmark for the team
• Analyze system performance, scalability constraints, and technical debt, and develop and execute remediation plans that improve reliability and long-term maintainability
• Evaluate emerging software engineering tools, architectural patterns, and methodologies, making well-reasoned recommendations to leadership on when and how to adopt them
• Define and champion engineering best practices, code standards, testing frameworks, and architectural guidelines to govern the quality of work produced by the team
• Conduct rigorous code and design reviews, providing specific, constructive technical feedback that elevates the quality of outputs at every level of the team
• Develop and maintain authoritative technical documentation — including architecture decision records, system design documents, and engineering runbooks — that builds institutional knowledge and reduces operational risk
• Own the technical design of major platform initiatives, from initial architecture through implementation and operationalization, ensuring solutions are scalable, cost-efficient, and aligned with the company's engineering strategy
• Partner closely with peers and technical leaders on platform roadmap decisions, contributing deep technical perspective to investment priorities and architectural trade-offs
• Ensure that system design decisions account for security, reliability, observability, and compliance requirements from the outset rather than as retrofits
• Serve as the primary technical mentor for less experienced engineers on the team, providing guidance on architecture approaches, debugging complex problems, and developing sound engineering judgment over time
• Contribute to onboarding frameworks and internal technical learning resources that accelerate the development of engineers at all levels
• Model engineering culture and professional standards expected at the highest IC level — curiosity, rigor, generosity with knowledge, and a bias toward durable solutions
• Partner with Product, QA, and Operations stakeholders on technical requirements and translate those requirements into well-designed, production-ready solutions
• Represent the software engineering function in cross-functional technical discussions, contributing authoritative perspective on system feasibility, complexity, and trade-offs
• Contribute software engineering insight to planning conversations where platform architecture or system decisions have significant product or operational implications

Requirements:

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
• 8 -10 years of progressive experience in software engineering or a closely related discipline, with a demonstrable record of designing and building complex, production-grade software systems in a SaaS or technology environment
• Expert-level proficiency in system design, including distributed systems, microservices architecture, API design, cloud infrastructure patterns, and reliability engineering
• Experience with component-based frameworks like React or Vue and an ability to identify and architect reusable components for varied use-cases is required
• Experience writing front end code using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, ARIA and other related user interface technologies is required
• Understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, HTTP, AJAX, and REST
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable web application
• Proven track record of mentoring and elevating less experienced engineers through technical engagement, feedback, and knowledge-sharing without requiring formal management authority
• Advanced degree preferred
• Experience with front-end build/config management, such as yarn/npm, webpack (or similar tools like rollup/parcel), and testing tools like Jasmine, Karma, Mocha, Enzyme, Jest, etc is preferred
• Experience or interest in AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) is a nice to have; we support and encourage growth in this area