Principal Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Ministry Brands

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

☁️ SaaS

🤝 Non-profit

📋 Compliance

💰 Venture Round on 2017-01

SaaS • Non-profit • Compliance

Ministry Brands is a leading provider of software and services designed for faith-based, non-profit, and purpose-driven organizations. Specializing in church management systems, digital engagement tools, payment platforms, and background screening solutions, Ministry Brands serves over 90,000 organizations worldwide. They offer innovative solutions to simplify operations, inspire generosity, and enhance communication, allowing churches and non-profits to focus on their mission. Their platforms support everything from financial management and donor engagement to volunteer coordination and safety compliance.

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership for the Digital Engagement portfolio • Implement scalable architectures and guide engineering teams delivering customer engagement, personalization, communications, and data-driven experiences • Drive engineering excellence across multiple teams and influence product strategy through technology • Ensure software solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable • Partner with Product Management, Engineering Leadership, Security, Architecture, and DevOps • Mentor engineers and establish engineering best practices • Define architectural decisions improving performance, reliability, maintainability, scalability, and security • Lead development of scalable, secure, cloud-native services across multiple products, stacks, and cloud providers • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies • Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges • Drive technical roadmaps aligned with business objectives • Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade applications primarily in PHP/Laravel and additionally C#/.NET • Lead application refactoring, cloud migration, monolith decomposition, framework upgrades, and technical debt reduction • Develop highly available cloud applications using AWS services and equivalent Azure and Google Cloud services • Optimize database performance through schema design, indexing, query optimization, caching, and database architecture • Develop highly testable, maintainable, and reusable software components • Lead adoption of AI agents across the engineering lifecycle • Champion clean architecture, Domain-Driven Design, spec-driven development, and secure coding standards • Establish development standards, coding guidelines, testing strategies, and deployment processes • Lead architecture, code, design, and technical planning reviews • Improve automated testing, observability, monitoring, and application performance • Own deployment practices using continuous small changes and feature flags • Partner with Product Management and Engineering Managers on technical solutions and investments • Influence technical decisions across multiple engineering teams • Communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Mentor engineers through coaching, code reviews, pair programming, and architecture guidance • Foster engineering excellence, innovation, ownership, and continuous learning • Help establish career development paths and technical competency standards • Lead technical knowledge sharing through presentations, documentation, and architecture discussions • Lead incident response and root cause analysis for critical production issues • Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness • Promote automation across development, deployment, testing, and infrastructure

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience • 5+ years designing enterprise-scale distributed systems and cloud-native applications • Experience serving as a technical lead, staff engineer, or principal engineer • Expert-level proficiency with PHP • Experience with modern PHP frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony • Expert-level proficiency with MySQL / Amazon Aurora MySQL • Expert-level proficiency with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript • Expert-level proficiency with RESTful APIs and web services • Proficiency in C# and modern .NET, including ASP.NET Core and Azure Functions • Deep experience in one major cloud provider and working comfort in another; AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud experience • Comfort with TypeScript and at least one of React, Vue, or Angular • Experience with containerized application development and deployment using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies • Experience with CI/CD, DevOps best practices, observability, application performance monitoring, and event-driven architectures • Experience designing RESTful APIs, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems • Experience with OAuth, SSO integration, API authentication, secrets management, and security best practices • Expertise with automated unit, integration, API, and end-to-end testing • Exceptional communication, collaboration, organization, and leadership skills • Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams • Ability to work efficiently in a remote work environment • Ability to handle extended computer-based work and collaborate via Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and other meeting technologies • Domestic and/or international travel required, estimated up to 5% • Desired: church technology, nonprofit SaaS, or multi-tenant CMS and website-builder products • Desired: AWS services including EC2, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, SQS, and CloudFront • Desired: video streaming and media pipelines, including AWS MediaLive, MediaPackage, HLS, and transcoding services • Desired: high-volume messaging and alerting through Twilio, SendGrid, or similar APIs • Desired: search platforms such as Solr, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Algolia • Desired: Linux-based web application administration and optimization • Desired: infrastructure as code, especially Terraform and Helm charts • Desired: Office 365, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

🏖️ Benefits

• Robust healthcare options • Flexible work schedules • Flexible paid time off (PTO) • Up to 80 hours of paid sick/safe leave • 11.5 days of fully paid holidays • 401(k) matching 100% of contributions up to 3% • Paid parental leave • Employee Assistance Program with free in-person or virtual counseling • Professional development reimbursement • Employee recognition and rewards through Nectar • Remote work environment