Principal Software Engineer
HappyCo
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Architect and design platform systems and services for enterprise-scale SaaS software, with an emphasis on scalability, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
- Assess existing architectural patterns and system designs across the HappyCo software suite, identifying opportunities to reduce technical debt and simplify complexity.
- Define and document target architectures, guiding principles, and standards that enable teams to build faster and more consistently.
- Develop architectural proposals, technical plans, and RFCs, and guide them through internal review and decision-making processes.
- Lead Technical Design Reviews for Staff Engineers and Tech Leads, ensuring alignment with documented patterns and platform direction.
- Drive platform modernization initiatives, including the deprecation of legacy systems in a way that minimizes risk and customer impact.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership by contributing POCs, reference implementations, and other artifacts that accelerate shared understanding and adoption.
- Enable and support external software teams by providing clear documentation, repeatable processes, and timely, decisive architectural guidance.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to PDE leadership, promoting and evangelizing architectural direction and best practices across the organization.
Requirements
- Deep experience designing and evolving complex, production-grade SaaS platforms.
- A strong track record of leading architectural change while maintaining system stability.
- Expertise in modern software architectures, including event-driven systems, service orchestration, and platform design.
- Demonstrated ability to reduce technical debt in ways that measurably improve team and organizational velocity.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and levels of seniority.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and making high-impact technical decisions.
Benefits
- Work from anywhere supported by a flexible company culture
- Opportunity to work for one of the fastest growing technology companies in the PropTech industry
- Unlimited vacation time
- Generous paid parental leave
- Competitive and equitable pay, including stock options
- Monthly stipends to support Wellness and Home Office expenses
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SaaS architectureevent-driven systemsservice orchestrationtechnical debt reductionplatform designarchitectural proposalstechnical plansRFCsPOCsreference implementations
Soft skills
communicationinfluenceleadershipproblem-solvingdecision-makingcollaborationguidancedocumentationorganizational skillstrustworthiness