Principal Software Engineer (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Weedmaps is a leading technology company in the cannabis industry, seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape the vision and architecture of their backend infrastructure. The role involves influencing technical direction, ensuring a scalable and secure technology stack, and collaborating with various teams to drive strategic business decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical direction for the overarching Weedmap’s technology stack leveraging Service Oriented Architecture patterns using server side Javascript such as Node.js or similar runtime environment

• Develop architectures that are secure, scalable, robust, modular, API-centric, and follow the principle of least astonishment

• Build long term technical strategies that align with Weedmap’s business plan and influence the overall technical direction

• Support the application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support). Follow established development, documentation, testing and deployment processes.

• Partner closely with engineers and leaders across different disciplines and teams to gather information, listen to multiple viewpoints and come up with solutions to drive the technical direction forward.

• Act as an ambassador for the organization at technology conferences and events

• Communicate technical roadblocks and solutions with executive leadership

• Mentor, educate and coach engineers across the technology organization

• Act as a team player for building a culture of flawless execution

Qualifications:

Required:

• 12-15+ years of software development experience with 3+ years of SaaS architectural experience in high-growth engineering organizations

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree / work experience, including code camps or self-taught programmers

• Experience in writing quality production­ code in server side Javascript, such as Node.js

• Experience with frameworks that provide structure for Node.js such as Express.js, NestJS, and Adonis.js

• Experience with exceptional architecture and clean coding practices

• Effective and persuasive communication skills at all levels of management and engineers, both written and verbal

• Able to collaborate on long-term architectural vision, and articulate and evangelize that vision in and out of the company

• Experience working in an e-commerce space building applications and technology to engage consumers and foster growth

• Exposure to integrations and design, cloud based technologies, and latest mobile architectures

• Experience working collaboratively at a high level with other teams within an organization

• Breadth of knowledge and passion spanning front-end and back-end technologies.

Company:

Weedmaps is the world's first marijuana technology and media brand. It is a sub-organization of WM Technology. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Weedmaps has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.