Principal Software Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

The position:

This is a newly created position. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. The Principal Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote, with occasional travel to Boston (a few times a year).

What you'll do:

• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• 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.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.

What you need:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Starting pay: $250,000 - $310,000 annually, depending on experience and certifications.

Why work with us:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid time off.
• Employee assistance program.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at RF Software Inc..