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Principal Engineer, Core Product
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San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listed on 2026-09-12
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Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Software Architect
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Drive technical vision and architecture across Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, and HR Management domains
- Create architectural coherence across domains serving 100K+ SMBs
- Champion and help deliver Homebase's API strategy for internal velocity, external integrations, and future partnerships
- Lead decomposition of core product systems into well-bounded services using domain-driven design and SOA principles
- Identify and resolve cross-cutting challenges involving data consistency, performance, and reliability
- Champion Engineering Excellence standards and patterns across teams
- Mentor senior and staff engineers
- Partner with Product, Data, Design, and Engineering leadership on roadmaps and technical strategy
- Experiment with and deploy or build AI harness capabilities for code generation and test automation
- Coach teams on effective AI adoption
- Measure and share the impact of AI-enabled improvements
- Contribute to AI platform efforts that improve product development speed and feature quality
- 12+ years of software engineering experience
- Significant depth in scaling distributed systems and evolving legacy architectures
- Strong background in Ruby/Rails is ideal
- Track record of defining and executing technical strategy across multiple product domains or teams
- Experience mentoring engineers and guiding teams through architectural change
- Deep expertise in domain-driven design, API design, SOA, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with payroll, workforce management, or similarly complex business domains is a strong plus
- Ability to influence without authority
- Strong communication skills with engineers, PMs, and executives
- Active, high-leverage AI fluency; daily use of AI tools and experience helping teams adopt AI
- Comfort operating in a high-velocity environment where shipping fast and iterating matters
Demonstrates extensive experience in software engineering with a focus on technical strategy, architecture, and AI integration. Proven ability to mentor teams and drive engineering excellence across complex domains such as Payroll and HR Management.
Highest-signal resume keywords- 12+ Years Of Software Engineering Experience
- Ruby/Rails Expertise
- Domain-Driven Design
- API Design
- AI Fluency
- Distributed Systems
- Legacy Architecture Evolution
- Event-Driven Architecture
- SOA Principles
- Technical Strategy Execution
- Architectural Change Guidance
- Data Consistency
- Performance Optimization
- Reliability Engineering
- Test Automation
- Strong Communication Skills
- Influencing Without Authority
- Mentoring Engineers
- Coaching Teams
- Collaboration
- Payroll
- Workforce Management
- HR Management
- SMB Solutions
- Technical Vision
- AI Tools
- Homebase API
- Code Generation Tools
- Test Automation Tools
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