Principal Software Engineer

Principal Engineer 

Remote or Hybrid to Wayne, PA; Naperville, IL; Austin, TX

 

We are seeking a Principal Engineer on our Platform Applications team to participate in the agile development scrum team designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting elegant, scalable, and reliable software solutions for our customers.  This is a fast-paced and exciting role that provides opportunities to work on a wide array of projects. 

This role reports to the Platform Engineering Manager and works closely with Development, Architecture, Product, Customer Success, SassIO and Strategic Partners to deliver solutions that simplify the daily work life of the front line of education. 

 

Responsibilities 

• Provide advice and oversight regarding solution design and architecture. 
• Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software solutions. 
• Recommend and evangelize new technology to meet needs of the organization. 
• Perform system analysis and recommend improvements around architecture, scalability, and reliability. 
• Promote and lead guild activities to encourage expansion of technical knowledge among engineers across the organization. 
• Perform analysis and troubleshooting of highly advanced software constructs. 
• Champion the adoption of coding standard practices and procedures by the team and technology organization 
• Construct unit tests over complex algorithms to ensure a high degree of quality in code. 
• Collaborate with other engineers on the team and across the technology organization. 
• Lead Design Sketch reviews within the team and across the technology organization. 
• Author complex technical documentation and design sketches at a solution level 
• Provide High Level Estimates at a project level. 
• Participate in functional requirements review meetings with Product Owner 
• Coach others on effective time management techniques. 
• Challenge the team to think about code-quality in terms of long-term maintainability. 
• Take active role in ensuring the team meets the sprint commitment. 
• Effectively draw other, quieter, participants into a discussion to get all viewpoints. 
• Lead and facilitate cross-functional meetings. 
• Proactively convey details regarding project status and deliverables to key stakeholders "up the chain" in a timely manner. 

 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field   
• 10+ years’ experience in the following is required: 
  • Software Development using NodeJS and Typescript API 
  • Highly proficient in JavaScript and Typescript. 
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB/DocumentDB,  
  • CI-CD Pipelines (Codefresh) 
  • Strong knowledge of building cloud-based solutions on AWS 
  • (S3, EC2, Lambda, SNS, SQS, etc.) 
  • Strong Docker experience.   
  • Familiarity with microservice architecture 
  • Scrum 
• Experience in the following is preferred: 
  • OIDC 
  • Knowledge of k8s preferred. 
  • Graph databases and gremlin, AWS Neptune 
  • Apache Kafka, Caching Platforms (Redis/memcached) 
  • SaaS/multi-tenant platform 
  • Confluence, Jira, GitHub, Office365, Slack, Zoom 

Personal Attributes 

• A ‘One Team’ mindset in which success is only achieved through the success of  
• A Systems Thinking approach that ensures solutions solve the problem at hand within the construct of a larger  
• An entrepreneurial spirit: willing to try new ideas, learn fast, and continuously improve. 
• Positive attitude to learn, receive constructive feedback and grow is very important. 
• Be a good listener and stay humble to learn from others. 
• Be a team player and ability to work well individually and as team is very important. 
• Actively provides guidance, domain knowledge, and design opinions to more junior team members. 
•  Actively participates in the development of the team. 

 

Frontline Education is a pioneer of school administration software purpose-built for K-12 districts. We provide innovative, connected solutions for student and special programs, business operations, and human capital management with powerful data and analytics to empower educators and administrators. We earn the trust of K-12 leaders across the U.S. by serving as a consistently high-performing, forthright partner of school districts through every dimension of the company.  

 

We're a group of unique and talented individuals that love what we do. We've been lucky enough to land jobs with a rapidly growing tech company that supports an appreciative and friendly customer base. We work hard to make our customers happy, bu