Principal Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Software Engineer

Description

Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of modern AI-enabled software solutions with a mix of hands-on engineering and technical leadership across backend services, user-facing applications, and intelligent workflow development. You will create agentic AI workflows and architect scalable backend applications and distributed microservices while delivering secure, high-performing REST/GraphQL interfaces and React front-end features.

Responsibilities

• Lead full product development efforts from technical planning through production support, ensuring reliable delivery across the software lifecycle.

• Create and refine agentic AI workflows that improve automation, orchestration, and application intelligence.

• Architect, build, and support scalable backend applications using Python frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI) or Node.js frameworks (Express, NestJS).

• Develop robust RESTful and GraphQL interfaces enabling seamless communication between applications and services.

• Build and improve React-based frontend features with strong integration to backend systems and APIs.

• Design distributed architectures and microservices for maintainability, resilience, and future growth.

• Improve application efficiency by tuning database interactions, refining performance, and optimizing cloud resource consumption.

• Apply security practices across authentication, authorization, and service protection; oversee containerized deployments and CI/CD processes.

• Partner with product, design, and DevOps stakeholders to deliver solutions and resolve production issues in cloud-based environments.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of hands-on software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications.

• Strong programming expertise in Python or Node.js for backend development.

• Practical experience building modern frontend applications with React.

• Working knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and/or NoSQL platforms (MongoDB or DynamoDB).

• Solid understanding of API design principles, web services, and asynchronous programming concepts.

• Experience using Git in collaborative development environments and team-based workflows.

• Demonstrated analytical thinking, strong problem-solving skills, and ability to manage competing priorities.

• Commitment to producing readable, maintainable, well-documented code with clear communication and teamwork.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.

• Free online training.

• Medical, vision, dental, and life/disability insurance for contract/temporary professionals.

• 401(k) eligibility for hired contract/temporary professionals.