Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Boulevard as the Engineering Lead on the Commerce team and help define and execute the Commerce strategy, powering foundational platform components like Order, Checkout, and Memberships. This highly visible role requires architecting and building Commerce primitives at scale, ensuring accounting integrity. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Design, and Product Marketing to make informed product decisions and achieve significant business outcomes. The ideal candidate is customer-centric with a proven track record in building scalable Commerce systems. You will lead a team, champion codebase maintenance, and participate in on-call rotation. Boulevard offers a competitive salary, benefits, and a remote work environment.

Requirements

• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining Commerce and Accounting products
• Experience shipping high-impact and complex user-facing initiatives
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go)
• Ability to make sound decisions and tradeoffs in design and implementation, appropriately anticipating scale, maintenance, and overall operational feasibility of solutions
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Deep partnership with your product, design, and marketing counterparts, constantly collaborating to ensure we progress towards the desired outcomes, maintaining healthy engagement with peers and stakeholders across R&D for cross-functional initiatives
• Able to lead large initiatives and roadmaps by partnering with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to define and scope smaller deliverables that yield incremental value to the business and customers
• Ability to move things forward in the face of ambiguity, operating effectively in decision-making while clearly articulating risks and trade-offs and ensuring proper visibility to key stakeholders and the squad
• You have a balance of both technical and leadership strengths. You guide sound technical decisions within the squad, as well as empower your team to autonomously create significant impact
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy for evolving systems to best support long-term objectives while still delivering incremental value in the now

Responsibilities

• Strategic planning and execution, ensuring alignment with the company’s vision and objectives
• Own and lead the technical architecture and implementation of Boulevard’s Commerce Platform
• Establish and monitor system health metrics, implementing strategies to exceed targets
• Champion the maintenance of an observable, secure, and efficient codebase, addressing technical debt proactively to ensure the platform’s reliability and performance
• Participate in on-call rotation, where you will lead the incident investigation, resolution, and identifying post-incident improvements

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Elixir is a plus

Benefits

• Your total budgeted cash compensation for this role is between $200,000 and $240,000 USD, depending on your current skills, experience, training, and overall market demands
• 401(k) match plus dental, medical, vision, and life insurance
• Flexible vacation day policy
• Fully remote so you can choose where you want to work. You’ll receive a work from home stipend every month
• Family planning resources and specialized support programs
• Equity: get ahead on the ground floor and grow with Boulevard
• Boulevard Bucks Learning and Development program allows employees to explore businesses in the market we serve