HappyCo - Principal Software Engineer
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Requirements
• Deep experience designing and evolving complex, production-grade SaaS platforms. • A strong track record of leading architectural change while maintaining system stability. • Expertise in modern software architectures, including event-driven systems, service orchestration, and platform design. • Demonstrated ability to reduce technical debt in ways that measurably improve team and organizational velocity. • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and levels of seniority. • Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and making high-impact technical decisions.
Responsibilities
• Architect and design platform systems and services for enterprise-scale SaaS software, with an emphasis on scalability, resilience, and long-term maintainability. • Assess existing architectural patterns and system designs across the HappyCo software suite, identifying opportunities to reduce technical debt and simplify complexity. • Define and document target architectures, guiding principles, and standards that enable teams to build faster and more consistently. • Develop architectural proposals, technical plans, and RFCs, and guide them through internal review and decision-making processes. • Lead Technical Design Reviews for Staff Engineers and Tech Leads, ensuring alignment with documented patterns and platform direction. • Drive platform modernization initiatives, including the deprecation of legacy systems in a way that minimizes risk and customer impact. • Provide hands-on technical leadership by contributing POCs, reference implementations, and other artifacts that accelerate shared understanding and adoption. • Enable and support external software teams by providing clear documentation, repeatable processes, and timely, decisive architectural guidance. • Act as a trusted technical advisor to PDE leadership, promoting and evangelizing architectural direction and best practices across the organization.
Benefits
• A rare opportunity to shape the technical foundation of a growing SaaS platform during a major architectural transition. • High-impact role with visibility and influence across engineering and product leadership. • Collaborative engineering culture that values clarity, pragmatism, and continuous learning. • Competitive compensation, benefits, and flexible work arrangements. • Work from anywhere supported by a flexible company culture • Opportunity to work for one of the fastest growing technology companies in the PropTech industry • Unlimited vacation time • Generous paid parental leave • Competitive and equitable pay, including stock options • Monthly stipends to support Wellness and Home Office expenses • Find out more about our US Employee Benefits here! • We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that HappyCo upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status. HappyCo is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. • A note to Recruitment Agencies: Please don’t reach out to us about our roles -- we’ve got it covered. We don’t accept unsolicited agency resumes and HappyCo is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. • HappyCo is a company where people can grow their careers and work with like minded people, with no egos or politics. HappyCo is values driven and offers a flexible, supportive culture. Join HappyCo and Make Work Happy!
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