Principal Software Engineer

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October 24

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LawnStarter

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B2C • Marketplace • Real Estate

LawnStarter is a service platform that provides affordable lawn care services at the click of a button. With fast online ordering, quality service, and a user-friendly app, LawnStarter allows customers to easily schedule and manage lawn maintenance services. These include lawn mowing, fertilization, bush trimming, and weeding. The company partners with local professionals to ensure reliable and insured services while supporting small businesses. LawnStarter offers its services across numerous locations in the United States, aiding customers in keeping their lawns beautiful and well-maintained.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

👥 B2C

🏪 Marketplace

🏠 Real Estate

💰 $10.5M Venture Round on 2019-11

📋 Description

• Collaborate on designing and implementing system architecture, technical strategy, and engineering standards. • Lead technical initiatives across teams, ensuring alignment with architectural direction and goals. • Build and maintain platform-level components, services, and libraries that enhance engineering efficiency and system maintainability. • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and hands-on guidance. • Contribute directly to both server-side and client-side development across the entire stack. • Write and review technical design documents, system diagrams, and reference implementations. • Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks, and best practices to continuously improve our platform. • Enhance observability, performance, scalability, and security throughout our system. • Share knowledge and insights to foster team growth and improvement.

🎯 Requirements

• Experienced: • - A principal engineer, lead full-stack engineer, or someone with relevant experience in similar roles. • - Highly skilled in both server-side and client-side software development. • Technically Proficient: • - Familiar with cloud development (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure). • - Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD), RESTful APIs, React, MVC frameworks, and security concerns (e.g., XSS attacks). • Fundamentally Strong in Computer Science Concepts: • - You can explain concepts like Big O notation, pointers, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures such as arrays, sets, and linked lists. • Database-Savvy: • - Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases, and understand operations like CRUD, indexes, and joins. • Cloud Infrastructure Expert: • - Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora) and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC). • Customer-Centric: • - Passionate about clean code and building customer-driven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive contract rate from 120K - 150K USD annually, depending on skills and experience • Work from anywhere • Flexible hours—get the work done on your schedule • High ownership and autonomy • Fast-moving team that loves to build, learn, and grow