Principal Software Engineer

Staff accountants rotate across engagements in their first two years to see different industries. We provide audit, tax and advisory services to private companies, public entities and nonprofits.

Overview:

We need another Principal Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Remote within the US. The team meets in Virginia Beach once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In this role you will:

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates

Minimum qualifications:

• 8-10 years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Preferred qualifications:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Starting pay: $205,000 - $280,000 a year, depending on experience and certifications.

Pay and benefits:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance program

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at TG & Company.