Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Tenna as a Principal Software Engineer to enhance our connected equipment platform. Collaborate with Development and Product Teams, writing clean, reliable code for mission-critical projects. Lead high-impact work, shaping our platform and tech direction. Build core system components, make key architecture decisions, and deliver scalable solutions. We seek a candidate who enjoys coding and leading, passionate about building scalable systems, and excited by IoT possibilities. Tackle meaningful projects in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software development and application design experience, with a strong track record of delivering data-intensive, scalable software products
• 2+ years of experience leading engineering initiatives, driving technical direction, and/or mentoring team members through architectural and project-level decisions
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical and business problems across diverse and evolving software architectures
• Proven success working both independently and collaboratively on mission-critical initiatives in fast-paced environments

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across Tenna’s development teams, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration
• Tackle a wide variety of complex software engineering challenges, swiftly identifying and implementing effective technical solutions
• Design, build, and deliver robust mobile, front-end, and back-end solutions that power Tenna’s connected equipment platform
• Write clean, efficient, scalable, and reusable code—with a strong focus on performance and reliability
• Champion unit testing and code quality, ensuring your team consistently delivers high-standard, bug-free releases
• Lead the effort to refactor monolithic systems into scalable microservices architectures, driving modernization and maintainability
• Influence and contribute to system architecture, database design, and API development with a strategic and forward-thinking mindset
• Partner closely with Product Managers to define, scope, and prioritize new features and functionality
• Collaborate with senior leadership to align on strategic initiatives and tackle critical business challenges with technology solutions
• Work alongside QA engineers to ensure that cohesive, well-tested, and user-focused solutions are consistently delivered
• Continuously evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance system capabilities and team productivity
• Be a key driver in our agile development process, promoting iterative delivery and cross-functional collaboration
• Produce clear, comprehensive, and maintainable technical documentation to support long-term scalability and onboarding

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to or thriving within rapidly growing engineering teams is a strong plus
• Deep expertise in designing, building, and operating high-scale, high-availability systems
• Engineers with experience in C#, .NET, or Python are encouraged to apply, provided they demonstrate a strong willingness to transition into and develop expertise within Tenna’s JavaScript/Node.js-centric technology stack
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and HTML/CSS, with a solid understanding of front-end fundamentals, is preferred
• Hands-on experience with Node.js, especially within microservices architectures, is highly preferred
• Robust experience with SQL databases; familiarity with NoSQL solutions is a plus
• Proficiency in containerized deployments using tools like Docker; Kubernetes experience is a plus
• Familiarity with large-scale data pipelines and distributed systems is highly desirable
• Solid experience working within Amazon Web Services (AWS), particularly with services like EC2, S3, VPC, Elasticsearch, and Kinesis

Benefits

• Full-time opportunity
• Location: Fully remote - nationwide
• Opportunities for growth and personal development within a highly dynamic team
• Robust, low-cost benefit packages offered
• Benefit coverage begins on the first date of employment
• Paid Time Off and Volunteer Time Off offered
• 401k match
• Dependent Care offered
• Employee referral bonuses
• Visa sponsorship offered