Principal Software Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Main duties

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI

Pluses

• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Pay and benefits

Pay range: $215,000 - $280,000 per year. Final offer will depend on experience.

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Short- and long-term disability
• Flexible schedule
• Profit sharing

Company overview

Tideridge HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Tideridge HQ LLC.