Principal Software Engineer

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Equal Opportunity Ventures · 1 month ago

Principal Software Engineer - US

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Equal Opportunity Ventures is a company focused on redefining the future of hiring through innovative technology. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect systems and drive technical strategy while collaborating across teams to enhance engineering practices and support business goals.

ConsultingFinanceVenture CapitalStock Exchanges

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Shape Technical Strategy

Proactively partner with leadership to bridge the gap between engineering and the broader business to ensure technical strategies and roadmaps directly support and accelerate overarching business goals

Drive Cross-Functional Priorities

Collaborate with product and development managers to surface trade-offs and ensure engineering priorities are communicated persuasively across the organization

Navigate Complex Environments

Align impact across a multi-product, multi-team environment, identifying opportunities for platform consolidation and technical consistency

Autonomy & Decision Making

Demonstrate high resourcefulness; you are empowered to make significant technical decisions and drive projects end-to-end with limited oversight

High Contribution

Maintain a high bar for individual execution by writing clean, efficient, and production-ready code

Rigorous Testing & Validation

Lead by example in code quality by defining testing standards and utilizing AI to generate robust test suites and edge-case discovery that ensure comprehensive coverage

Proactive Problem Solving

Personally identify and execute fixes for deep-seated bottlenecks, architectural bugs, and performance issues that impact system stability

Modernize Tooling

Evaluate and integrate emerging AI-powered tools to enhance operational efficiency and developer productivity. Maintain a high bar for execution by mastering AI-augmented coding practices to write, refactor, and deploy code with unprecedented speed and quality

System Design & Scalability

Lead architectural evaluations and design reviews to ensure systems remain flexible and scalable as the business grows

QA Partnership

Partner effectively with QA to define test strategies, improve automated testing coverage, and ensure a seamless handoff from development to production

Operational Health

Lead incident response and postmortem processes, establishing best practices to prevent recurrence of high-severity issues

Champion Standards

Maintain code quality, organization, and automation across the broader engineering organization

Technical Multiplier

Elevate the engineers around you through rigorous code reviews, design feedback, and modeling mature, thoughtful engineering judgment

Lead Technical Discussions

Move teams to decisions, ensuring the best ideas surface regardless of where they originate

Foster Accountability

Champion a culture of quality, where engineers take pride in end-to-end ownership, technical excellence, and proficiency in leveraging AI tools

Qualification

GoTypeScriptMicrosoft .NETApache KafkaDatabase schema designObject-oriented programmingData structuresAlgorithmsAWSCI/CD pipelinesAutomated testing frameworksSoftware engineering fundamentalsEvent-driven architectureMicroservices architecture

Required

10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a demonstrated track record of leading and executing technically complex, high-impact initiatives from inception through delivery

Recent experience working on a small, agile team contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle in a start-up environment

Primary experience in Go, comfortable working across existing .NET and TypeScript codebases

Experience implementing event-driven architecture within microservices ecosystems using tools like Apache Kafka

Experience creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms

Strong experience with AWS platforms, including an understanding of their capabilities and limitations

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks

Proven ability to operate across organizational lines, you are comfortable influencing without authority, building consensus among diverse teams, and driving decisions that require alignment across product, engineering, and business stakeholders

Deep software engineering fundamentals, with experience in multi-product architectures

Experience working in an environment shaped by acquisitions or rapid growth, with an appreciation for the technical and cultural complexity that comes with it

A track record of making well-reasoned technical decisions, you evaluate options carefully, push back on the first solution when a better one exists

Strong collaboration and communication skills. Able to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences

A bias for ownership, you take projects seriously from start to finish, hold yourself accountable for outcomes, and proactively identify and resolve risk before it becomes a problem

Comfort with ambiguity and a builder's mindset

you thrive when the path forward isn't defined, and you enjoy working through complexity, solving tough problems, and enabling others to move faster

Benefits

Purpose-driven organization

Flexible time off

Remote-first

Flexible work hours - our employees are in multiple time zones

Medical & dental plans

Parental leave

Employee stock options

Company

Equal Opportunity Ventures

Early-stage investor in businesses expanding economic mobility in America.

Founded in 2019

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2-10 employees

https://www.eoventures.com

H1B Sponsorship

Equal Opportunity Ventures has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

100%

Represents job field similar to this job

Engineering and Development

Trends of Total Sponsorships

*2025 (1)

2022 (2)

Funding

Current Stage

Early Stage

Leadership Team

Michelle Rhee

Venture Partner

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