Principal Software Engineer

Aquia

full-time

Posted on: 9/5/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $160,000 - $190,000 per year

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About the role

Own the end to end development of new features: discovery, implementation, deployment, and documentation in collaboration with product manager.
Review test plans and collaborate with QA engineers to test.
Write technical specifications to outline feature design, architecture, and implementation details; present specs for approval internally and externally.
Work closely with external stakeholders to gather requirements, discuss solutions, and troubleshoot issues.
Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and maintain high-quality code.
Investigate, debug, and resolve issues in production and development environments; work with stakeholders to determine scope and impact of issues.
Participate in the on-call support process as the primary on-call engineer; investigate alerts and help triage production bugs; work with Prod Admin and Deployments manager to finalize and deploy releases.

At least 8 years of hands-on professional work experience building web applications and creating APIs.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment in a self-directed manner that requires minimal supervision.
Familiarity with web accessibility standards to deliver services accessible to assistive technologies.
Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Equal parts systems thinker and advocate for users.
Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented.
Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short-term vs. long-term benefits.
An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset.
Excellent written and real-time communication, technical and otherwise.
Programming Languages: Python, Typescript/JavaScript.
Python Libraries: Flask, SQLAlchemy, Marshmallow, and Pydantic.
Databases: Postgres and Oracle.
Preferred: Workflow orchestration using Temporal.io (Python SDK); Observability via Splunk and AWS CloudWatch; Containerized environments using Docker and ECS.