Principal Software Engineer

Locatee Ag

$200K — $240K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of overall experience, with 5+ years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups
  • Strong knowledge of Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js)
  • Experience in building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications
  • Proven ability to set architectural direction and make durable technical decisions
  • Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale
  • Strong mentorship and communication skills; ability to influence across teams
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, master's preferred

Responsibilities

  • Own and define product and platform architecture including service boundaries and API standards
  • Lead architecture reviews to balance delivery needs with long-term maintainability
  • Identify systemic opportunities in products/platform and drive cross-team initiatives
  • Evaluate and pilot new technologies, and establish best design and testing practices
  • Partner with teams to resolve complex modernization and performance issues
  • Guide architecture for global cloud deployments and ensure compliance with regulations
  • Mentor engineers and promote best practices through workshops and guilds

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation reflecting your value
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Generous paid time off to support well-being
  • Flexible work environment options (remote, hybrid, or in-office)
  • Inclusive and collaborative workplace culture enhancing teamwork and diversity
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our dynamic and growing Engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:

Own architecture across product and platform
  • Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards.
  • Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long-term simplicity, maintainability, and performance.
  • Identify systemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross-team execution.

Introduce new technologies and best practices
  • Evaluate and introduce new technologies responsibly pilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable.
  • Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates.
  • Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs.

Solve the hardest cross-team problems
  • Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges.
  • Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable.
  • Help teams debug and resolve high-severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails.


Global cloud and regulated environment leadership
  • Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi-region strategy, DR, availability, and operability).
  • Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance.

Mentor and coach across the organization
  • Mentor engineers across teams; coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment.
  • Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post-incident reviews, and hands-on design workshops.


About You:

Technical breadth (multi-stack)
  • Ten years of overall experience, with at least five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups
  • Strong working knowledge across: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js).
  • Ability to move between systems-level architecture and hands-on problem solving, deep where needed, broad by default.
  • Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals.

Architecture leadership
  • Proven success setting architectural direction across multiple teams and making durable technical decisions.
  • Strong systems design skills: scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity.
  • Ability to drive alignment, influence roadmaps, and lead through ambiguity with pragmatic tradeoffs.

Global cloud + FedRAMP experience
  • Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale (multi-region deployments, DR/BCP, observability).
  • Experience supporting FedRAMP/government cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments.

Mentorship and communication
  • Strong written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and influence across engineering, product, and leadership.
  • Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers across teams, improving quality and raising the technic al bar.


Education:
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
  • Master's degree preferred


Nice to Have
  • Experience designing shared services (identity/auth, platform APIs) and driving adoption through developer experience improvements.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and platform tooling that improves developer productivity.
  • Experience leading large-scale modernization of legacy Java/J2EE systems.
  • Experience in commercial real estate software


What We Offer

We're committed to creating an environment where you can thrive-professionally and personally. Our offerings include:
  • Competitive Compensation We recognize and reward your contributions with a salary package that reflects your value.
  • Comprehensive Benefits Including health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, and generous paid time off to support your well-being.
  • Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we support work arrangements that promote productivity and balance.
  • Inclusive & Collaborative Culture We foster a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, teamwork is encouraged, and everyone has a voice.

Base pay offered for this position is: $200,000 - $240,000

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