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Principal Engineer, Core Product

Job in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listing for: Jobtailor
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Architect
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 210000 - 310000 USD Yearly USD 210000.00 310000.00 YEAR
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
Requirements
  • 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
Core Competencies

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
Hard Skills
  • Distributed Systems
  • Legacy Architecture Evolution
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • SOA Principles
  • Technical Strategy Execution
  • Architectural Change Guidance
  • Data Consistency
  • Performance Optimization
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Test Automation
Soft Skills
  • Strong Communication Skills
  • Influencing Without Authority
  • Mentoring Engineers
  • Coaching Teams
  • Collaboration
Industry Keywords
  • Payroll
  • Workforce Management
  • HR Management
  • SMB Solutions
  • Technical Vision
Tools & Technologies
  • AI Tools
  • Homebase API
  • Code Generation Tools
  • Test Automation Tools
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