Principal Full Stack Software Engineer

Summary

Join Arkestro as a Principal Engineer and lead the company's technical evolution and standards while contributing to key projects. You will drive technology at the platform level, building architecture and applications to impact current projects and set the stage for future business needs. This hands-on role involves coding initially, transitioning gradually to a strategic focus. You will guide architecture and standards, mentor engineers, and enable long-term product development. Collaboration with software engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, and quality engineers is essential to deliver and scale a transformational software product. The position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical innovation and build scalable, maintainable and flexible solutions
• Lead technical teams through implementation of large projects
• Architect and design systems for our various applications
• Autonomously deliver ongoing business impact across a team, product capability, or technical system
• Assess Arkestro’s business needs, projects, platforms and technologies to shape technical direction
• Help educate and mentor other developers
• Work with Product Management and Staff Tech Leads to estimate and commit
• Implement best practices, methodologies, and tools to optimize the development process and increase efficiency
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including senior leadership, to provide updates on project status, risks, and issues
• Participate in On call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• 15yrs+ building customer-facing applications professionally in collaboration with Product Management, UX and Data
• 10yrs+ of Rails/Ruby
• 6yrs+ React, JavaScript/TypeScript, NextJS, CSS, Figma
• 6yrs+ of Architecting Full Stack Applications
• 5yrs+ of AWS and/or Kubernetes with Istio
• 5yrs+ Leading technical teams
• Experience working in fast moving environments with on-call rotations and documented SLAs, SLOs, RPOs, and RTOs
• 5yrs+ of Python
• Series B and above startup experience
• Use of AI development tools

Benefits

• Competitive salary and startup equity
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance premiums covered up to 100% (employee only)
• 401K matching
• Unlimited PTO
• A remote-first team with regular opportunities to get together in person for team building, design sprints, and customer visits
• A one time allowance of $1,500 for home office supplies
• Annual budget of $1,000 for learning and professional development