Principal Software Engineer

AL Labs is hiring for the Principal Software Engineer role on our operations team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Remote within the US. The team meets in Chicago once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.

Who you are

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Pay and benefits

• Flexible schedule.
• Cell phone reimbursement.
• Referral program.
• Annual bonus.

A bit about us

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Small accounting firms in Illinois use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

A resume is enough to apply. Cover letters are optional.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at AL Labs.