Principal Software Engineer
RegScale
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Be a key member of the engineering leadership team, providing technical thought leadership that informs architecture, delivery, and product decisions across the organization.
- Own systems and capabilities end to end, not just features, with accountability for the technical direction, quality, and long-term health of what you lead.
- Identify architectural problems, scalability risks, and engineering patterns that need to change, and drive resolution with concrete proposals and cross team alignment.
- Design reusable, well-reasoned platform primitives and frameworks that reduce duplication and meaningfully accelerate the teams that consume them.
- Deliver across the full stack including frontend (Angular), backend (.NET, C#, Python), and data layer (PostgreSQL, SQL Server), with the depth to make sound architectural decisions at every layer.
- Lead technical initiatives across squad and functional boundaries, building alignment without direct authority through strong communication, credibility, and sound engineering judgment.
- Set engineering standards and patterns that others adopt in API design, data modeling, testing approach, and code quality, in partnership with the Architecture function.
- Proactively identify technical risk and delivery concerns weeks ahead of when they become problems, with proposed mitigations that protect business commitments.
- Develop the technical capability of the engineers around you through design reviews, mentorship, and active knowledge transfer. Measure part of your success by how much more effectively others operate because of your involvement.
- Communicate complex technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to engineering leadership, product, and executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- 12 or more years of professional software engineering experience with a portfolio of complex, cross cutting technical contributions that demonstrate system level thinking.
- Demonstrated ability to own systems or capabilities, not just features, with impact that extends across multiple teams or functional areas.
- Recognized as a technical authority who sets patterns others follow, drives adoption of standards, and shapes engineering culture through example and credibility.
- Track record of leading technical initiatives across organizational boundaries without direct authority, building consensus, navigating competing priorities, and delivering outcomes.
- Strong engineering instincts for tradeoffs including speed vs. sustainability, pragmatism vs. standards, and incremental delivery vs. architectural integrity.
- Experience proactively identifying systemic problems and proposing architectural solutions before they become crises, with concrete mitigation options that protect delivery commitments. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to articulate technical strategy and tradeoffs to engineering leadership, product, and executive audiences.
Benefits
- RegsScale is only able to hire US Citizens
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Angular.NETC#PythonPostgreSQLSQL ServerAPI designdata modelingtesting approachcode quality
Soft Skills
technical thought leadershipcommunicationcredibilityengineering judgmentmentorshipknowledge transferconsensus buildingnavigating competing prioritiesarticulating technical strategyproactive problem identification