Principal Engineer (Core Product)

Join Homebase as a Principal Engineer, where you'll be the senior technical leader across critical product domains including Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, and HR Management. You'll drive Homebase's technical vision and architecture, champion the API strategy, lead service architecture, and support engineering excellence. This role requires a strong background in software engineering, experience with complex business domains, and a passion for mentoring engineers. Enjoy benefits such as stock options, generous paid time off, and medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Contribuer à la vision technique et à l'architecture de Homebase dans les domaines clés du produit, tels que la paie, la planification, le suivi du temps et la gestion des ressources humaines.
• Diriger la décomposition des systèmes de produits de base en services bien délimités en utilisant la conception axée sur le domaine et les principes de l'architecture orientée services.
• Identifier et résoudre les défis techniques transversaux, tels que la cohérence des données, les goulets d'étranglement de performance, et les lacunes de fiabilité, avant qu'ils ne deviennent des problèmes pour les clients.

• This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, ships with urgency, and elevates everyone around them
• Track record of defining and executing technical strategy across multiple product domains or teams — not just within one team
• Experience with payroll, workforce management, or similarly complex business domains is a strong plus
• Strong communication skills: you can explain complex technical decisions to engineers, PMs, and executives alike
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in scaling distributed systems and evolving legacy architectures
• Deep expertise in domain-driven design, API design, SOA and event-driven architectures
• Passion for mentoring engineers and guiding teams through architectural change
• Active, high-leverage AI fluency — you use AI tools daily to improve your outcomes as an engineer and have helped teams adopt AI to create leverage, not slop
• Ideal candidate brings a strong background in Ruby/Rails
• Proven ability to influence without authority — you drive alignment through clarity of thought and collaboration
• Comfort operating in a high-velocity environment where shipping fast and iterating matters
• Experience comes in many forms—so if you're excited about this role, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply!