Principal Software Engineer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. SC Labs employs 700 people across engineering hubs in Lahore and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Job summary

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. SC Labs is hiring for the Principal Software Engineer role on our Core Services team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Our Core Services team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Remote position. Most of the team is in Lahore, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.

What you need

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.

Preferred

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.

Rate: PKR 300,000 - PKR 390,000 per month

Pay and benefits

• Flexible schedule.

We review applications as they come in.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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