Principal Software Development Engineer

Summary

Join our team at QuillBot, Scribbr, and LanguageTool, where we're revolutionizing written communication. As a key member, you will architect and optimize our application, ensuring high scalability and resilience. You'll collaborate with engineering teams, lead technological innovations, and prioritize impactful, user-focused solutions. Your contributions will shape our product roadmap and establish best practices. We offer a competitive salary, equity, bonuses, comprehensive health insurance, life and accidental insurance, generous paid time off, flexible work arrangements, and numerous professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Experience with large-scale web applications: Proven expertise in designing and developing collaborative web apps that scale
• Product Ownership: You’re more than an engineer; you’re a proactive contributor who takes full ownership of the product’s success
• Hands-On Development (8+ Years): Strong, hands-on experience in web and mobile development
• 5+ years of solid experience on JavaScript-based stacks (React, Node, Typescript, etc.)
• 3+ years of solid experience in designing architecture
• Problem Solving & Collaboration: Strong analytical skills and a collaborative approach to working with diverse teams, both technical and non-technical
• Code Quality & Best Practices: Committed to writing optimal, production-quality code and advocating for best practices
• Strong expertise in cloud architecture, deployment, & optimization (GCP / AWS) and database technologies (Mongo, Elastic, etc.)
• Ability to work across teams with multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver value to users

Responsibilities

• Architect & Optimize: Take ownership of the application architecture; ensure high scalability and resilience
• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with engineering teams to design optimal solutions for new features and modules
• Lead Technological Innovations: Work on proof-of-concepts for new experiments, benchmarking technology options, and drive architectural improvements
• Focus on Impactful Delivery: Prioritize high-impact, user-focused solutions over shipping for the sake of shipping
• Champion Code Quality: Conduct periodic code reviews and drive a culture of quality and excellence
• Shape the Product Roadmap: Contribute your insights to the product roadmap and play a key role in its strategic evolution
• Set Standards: Define and implement best practices, inspiring the team to embrace them

Preferred Qualifications

Technologist at heart and is passionate about the latest technological developments

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity
• Annual performance bonus
• Health insurance coverage (7 Lacs for self and family)
• Life Insurance 3X the CTC
• Accidental Insurance 3X the CTC
• Learning and Development Policy Reimbursement of Courses
• Privilege Leave
• Paid Leaves
• Casual Leaves
• Mandatory Leaves
• Special Leaves
• Flexible Holiday
• Menstrual Leaves
• Maternity Leaves & Flexible Paternity Leave
• Compassionate Leave
• Marriage Leave
• Work From Home
• Workstation Setup Reimbursement
• Internet Bill Reimbursement
• Remote-friendly culture
• Quarterly team and city meetings
• Annual Workations