Principal Software Engineer

💻 Our Tech Stack

• 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 objectoriented language, we believe you can quickly learn and adapt to our tech stack.

• 🌱 What You’ll Do

  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 platformlevel components, services, and libraries that enhance engineering efficiency and system maintainability.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and handson guidance.
  • Contribute directly to both serverside and clientside 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.
    

  • Requirements

    🔍 What We’re Looking For

    • We’re looking for someone who is:
    • • Experienced:
      • • A principal engineer, lead fullstack engineer, or someone with relevant experience in similar roles.
        • Highly skilled in both serverside and clientside 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.
                • • DatabaseSavvy:
                  • • Proficient in SQL and NoSQL 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).
                        • • CustomerCentric:
                          • • Passionate about clean code and building customerdriven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability.

                            • All team members at LawnStater are expected to embody our core values which are: Be datadriven, Get shit done, People are critical, Challenge the status quo, Be scrappy, and Be the Customer.

                              VERY IMPORTANT REMINDER: Please upload your English resume—applications without it will not be considered.

                              Benefits

                              • 🎁 Perks of Working with Us
                              • • Competitive contract rate
                                • Work from anywhere
                                • Flexible hours—get the work done on your schedule
                                • High ownership and autonomy
                                • Fastmoving team that loves to build, learn, and grow

                                • LawnStarter is building the future of outdoor home services. Want to help us shape it?
                                  Apply now and let’s grow together.