Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OnBoard provides board management software that helps organizations and boards function at a higher level. The Principal Software Engineer will design, develop, and implement scalable SaaS applications, including AI-powered and agentic experiences, while providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance. The role focuses on AI/ML integration, architectural integrity, AI-assisted development practices, and building maintainable, high-quality software solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex software systems and solutions including advanced AI-powered capabilities such as semantic search systems, vector databases, RAG-based architectures, and LLM orchestration patterns
- Translate business requirements into a well-formed technical design and help bring that design to life with the team, in an iterative fashion
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project goals, scope, and timelines as well as translate business requirements into scalable and robust software designs
- Mentor and coach team members, fostering their professional growth and promoting a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning
- Write reusable code, build libraries for future use, conduct code reviews, ensure code quality, and enforce coding standards
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex) to accelerate development velocity and code quality
- Build "golden pathways" and developer experience tooling that scales engineering capability across the organization
- Drive technical innovation and identify opportunities for process improvements and optimization
- Champion architectural integrity alongside an iterative, gated delivery approach
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends and evaluate their potential impact on our software solutions
Skills
- * Bachelor's Degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, or commensurate experience
- * 10+ years proven experience in SaaS development, primarily developing user-facing production features on a modern web stack
- * 5-7 years' experience developing web applications with C# and .NET Core
- * 5+ years' experience with RESTful design patterns and microservices architecture; including high-scale cloud mechanisms like event hubs, messaging systems, and data lakes
- * 1+ years' experience with AI-powered development tools (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) with demonstrated track record of leveraging AI assistants to accelerate development velocity and code quality
- * Experienced in one or more AI/ML areas: semantic search, vector databases, RAG frameworks, LLM orchestration, prompt engineering, or AI tooling development
- * Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to analyze and resolve difficult problems quickly
- * Experience working in a high transaction, high security environment where SOC2, ISO27001 compliance is required
- * Strong proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, git workflow, etc.; ideally in Azure DevOps
- * Mastery of agile development methodologies and DevOps practices
- * Demonstrated technical leadership experience in software development projects
- Critically, this role involves AI/ML integration including semantic search, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) frameworks, vector database architectures, LLM operations, orchestration patterns, and AI tooling integration. We recognize that exceptional engineers may have depth in some areas and breadth in others - experience across these areas is strongly desired but not required
Benefits
- Fully remote work with company provided equipment (laptop, software, etc.)
- Employment with a growing, casual, fun, philanthropic minded company
- US Based Employees: Comprehensive, high-quality medical/prescription drug plan options, as well as dental and vision plan offerings.
- US Based Employees: An employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA) if you participate in a High Deductible Healthcare Plan.
- US Based Employees: Medical Flexible Spending Accounts available.
- US Based Employees: Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts available.
- US Based Employees: Basic life insurance in the amount of $50,000 or 1 X’s your salary (whichever is higher).
- US Based Employees: Short and long-term disability and Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefits at no cost to you.
- US Based Employees: 401K Retirement Savings Plan with automatic enrollment at the first of the month following 60 days of employment at 5% to help you secure your financial freedom.
- US Based Employees: A generous company match that starts on the first of the month following 60 days of employment. The company match is dollar for dollar on the first 3% of your pay that you contribute and $0.50 on the dollar on the next 2%, for a total match of 4%.
- US Based Employees: Paid Time Off (PTO)/Holiday
- CAN Based Employees: Employer paid Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- CAN Based Employees: Contribution to Health Care Spending Account
- CAN Based Employees: Dependent Life Insurance
- CAN Based Employees: Optional Life Insurance
- CAN Based Employees: LTD Insurance
- CAN Based Employees: Drug and Paramedical Coverage
- CAN Based Employees: Dental Insurance
- CAN Based Employees: Vision Insurance
- CAN Based Employees: EAP
- AUS Based employees: Superannuation rate of 12%
- AUS Based employees: Monthly stipend of $400 AUD to purchase private medical insurance
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Pension - Aegon; Passageways/OnBoard contributes 8% of the employee's basic salary
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Employees can contribute up to 100% of salary subject to max limits
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Enrolled from Day 1 of employment
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Private Medical Insurance
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Life Assurance
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Income Protection
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Critical Illness
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Employee Assistance Programme
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Serious Illness Benefit
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Help@Hand
- UK Based Employees (via EPG): Cashplan
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