Senior Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join StraighterLine's software leadership team as a Sr. Principal Software Engineer! You will lead technical design, manage offshore development teams, and contribute to software development. Responsibilities include owning technical design, fostering a collaborative engineering culture, and driving on-time delivery of high-quality solutions. You will also manage and mentor a distributed engineering team across two countries. This role requires extensive software engineering experience, expertise in modern web application architectures, and proficiency in specific technologies. The position is remote but limited to specific states. StraighterLine offers a supportive work environment and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Passionate about StraighterLine’s mission and vision
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering roles, including as a technical lead or senior developer, with demonstrated leadership experience within a Scrum team
• Expert knowledge of modern web application architectures and technologies
• Development experience with AWS in a serverless environment
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and related tools
• Proficient in React, Next.js , Node.js , and related technologies
• Experience working with remote, distributed teams
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively within a team and across product development teams
• Proven ability to communicate and collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to understand business needs and expectations
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discussions and decision-making processes to establish best practices and design principles
• Lead and assist with delivery of technical discovery, prototypes and proofs-of-concept
• Understand and approve technical architecture decisions for the product
• Work with the Product Owner and Business Analyst to plan roadmaps and translate these into actionable backlogs and deliverable milestones
• Collaborate with other technical owners on related products to align technical solutions and architecture
• Foster an engineering culture focused on rapid delivery with confidence while ensuring quality through code reviews, collaboration with QA engineers, and mentoring of junior team members
• Drive the development effort for end-to-end, on-time delivery of high-quality solutions that meet feature requirements and fulfill team commitments as well as assessing and managing the technical risks throughout the development lifecycle
• Support backlog grooming activities by providing clarity to the development team as they review and update individual stories
• Measure and report on metrics to demonstrate the product development team’s delivery, quality and efficiency
• Proactively evaluate the development teams’ current approaches, workflows, and technologies, and present improvements to offshore leadership that can enhance the development process
• Investigation and troubleshooting of unexpected product behavior in the production environment
• Implementation and delivery of solutions to high-priority issues impacting customers in the production environment
• Implementation of complex or mission-critical functionality that supports the team to deliver milestones on time and on budget

Preferred Qualifications

• Desirable secondary skills include PHP, .NET, MySQL, and NoSQL
• Experience with BigCommerce, Stripe, or Moodle is a plus but not required

Benefits

• Generous time off policies, 13 public holidays
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Coverage (*one option full funded by StraighterLine)
• 401K Safe Harbor: StraighterLine contributes 3% of your total salary whether you contribute or not
• Six weeks paid parental leave
• Free StraighterLine courses for you and your family members