Principal Software Engineer

We're currently hiring a Principal Software Engineer to join our growing remote team.

At Lawn Starter, we're transforming the $100B+ outdoor home services industry—making it easier for homeowners to book, manage, and enjoy services like lawn care, landscaping, and more. With $30M+ in venture funding and solid traction, we're investing in the next generation of our platform—and we're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help drive it.

📹 See what we're building

• Own What You Build
  - Lead projects end-to-end with full autonomy and real impact
• Remote & Flexible
  - Work from anywhere and set your own hours
• Build Meaningful Tech
  - Help shape the tools that thousands of homeowners and service pros rely on daily
• Join at the Right Time
  - We have strong product-market fit and real momentum—you'll help define what comes next

• Languages & Frameworks: PHP (Laravel), JavaScript (React, React Native, Vue)
• Cloud Services: AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora, Redshift)
• Approach:
  We're not fixated on specific languages. If you have strong engineering fundamentals and experience with any mainstream object-oriented language, we believe you can quickly learn and adapt to our tech stack

As a Principal Software Engineer
, you'll work closely with the Software Architect and other engineers to:

• 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.

What we're looking for:

• We're looking for someone who is:
• 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 No
  
  SQL 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.

All team members at Lawn Starter are expected to embody our core values which are:
Be data-driven, Get Shit Done, People Are Critical, Challenge the Status Quo, Be the Customer, and AI or Annihilation.

• Salary Range: 180K-210K USD annually
• Healthcare benefits:
  Medical, dental, and vision
• Fully remote position:
  Work remotely from anywhere you want.
• Unlimited PTO:
  We focus on results. Take the time you need to recharge or enjoy life, work hard when you are…