Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join LawnStarter's growing remote team as a Principal Software Engineer and help transform the outdoor home services industry. Lead projects end-to-end, work remotely with flexible hours, and build impactful technology used by thousands daily. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a company with strong product-market fit and significant momentum. You will collaborate with the Software Architect and other engineers, design and implement system architecture, and mentor junior engineers. The ideal candidate possesses extensive full-stack development experience, strong computer science fundamentals, and expertise in cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

• A principal engineer, lead full-stack engineer, or someone with relevant experience in similar roles
• Highly skilled in both server-side and client-side software development
• Familiar with cloud development (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure)
• Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD), RESTful APIs, React, MVC frameworks, and security concerns (e.g., XSS attacks)
• You can explain concepts like Big O notation, pointers, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures such as arrays, sets, and linked lists
• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases, and understand operations like CRUD, indexes, and joins
• Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora) and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
• Passionate about clean code and building customer-driven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on designing and implementing system architecture, technical strategy, and engineering standards
• Lead technical initiatives across teams, ensuring alignment with architectural direction and goals
• Build and maintain platform-level components, services, and libraries that enhance engineering efficiency and system maintainability
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and hands-on guidance
• Contribute directly to both server-side and client-side development across the entire stack
• Write and review technical design documents, system diagrams, and reference implementations
• Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks, and best practices to continuously improve our platform
• Enhance observability, performance, scalability, and security throughout our system
• Share knowledge and insights to foster team growth and improvement

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision
• Fully remote position: Work remotely from anywhere you want
• Unlimited PTO: We focus on results. Take the time you need to recharge or enjoy life, work hard when you are back