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Homebase is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead technical strategy across its core product domains: Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, and HR Management. This is a senior technical leadership role focused on architecting scalable, maintainable systems that serve 100K+ small businesses.
Key responsibilities include:
- Drive Homebase's technical vision and architecture across core product domains in collaboration with other Staff and Principal Engineers, ensuring coherence across systems.
- Champion and execute Homebase's API strategy to enable internal velocity, external integrations, and partnership opportunities.
- Lead decomposition of core product systems into well-bounded services using domain-driven design and service-oriented architecture principles.
- Identify and resolve cross-cutting technical challenges—data consistency, performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps—proactively.
- Support and champion engineering culture, driving standards and patterns through influence and mentorship of senior and staff engineers.
- Partner with Product, Data, Design, and Engineering leadership to align technical strategy with business priorities and shape roadmaps.
- Experiment with and deploy AI-powered tools to accelerate engineering workflows (code generation, test automation) and coach teams on adoption.
Required experience:
- 12+ years of software engineering with significant depth in scaling distributed systems and evolving legacy architectures.
- Strong background in Ruby/Rails preferred.
- Track record of defining and executing technical strategy across multiple product domains or teams.
- Deep expertise in domain-driven design, API design, SOA, and event-driven architectures.
- Proven ability to influence without authority through clarity and collaboration.
- Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Active AI fluency—daily use of AI tools and demonstrated ability to help teams adopt AI effectively.
- Comfort in high-velocity environments prioritizing shipping and iteration.
Experience with payroll, workforce management, or complex business domains is a strong plus. The role emphasizes mentoring, architectural leadership, and championing AI adoption across engineering teams.
