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 and develop scalable SaaS applications, including AI-powered and agentic experiences, while providing technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance. The role focuses on AI/ML integration, maintainable software solutions, AI-assisted development practices, and engineering innovation.
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
- The Principal Software Engineer must be able to break down complex problems and design elegant, easy-to-maintain solutions that are resilient and robust
- Location: Remote - US - Working EST Hours
- • 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
- • US Based Employees
- 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
- Comprehensive, high-quality medical/prescription drug plan options, as well as dental and vision plan offerings for US-based employees
- An employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA) if you participate in a High Deductible Healthcare Plan
- Medical Flexible Spending Accounts available for US-based employees
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts available for US-based employees
- Basic life insurance in the amount of $50,000 or 1 X’s your salary (whichever is higher) for US-based employees
- Short and long-term disability and Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefits at no cost to you for US-based employees
- 401K Retirement Savings Plan with automatic enrollment at the first of the month following 60 days of employment at 5% for 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%
- Paid Time Off (PTO)/Holiday for US-based employees
- Employer paid Life and Accidental Death Insurance for Canada-based employees
- Contribution to Health Care Spending Account for Canada-based employees
- Dependent Life Insurance for Canada-based employees
- Optional Life Insurance for Canada-based employees
- LTD Insurance for Canada-based employees
- Drug and Paramedical Coverage for Canada-based employees
- Dental Insurance for Canada-based employees
- Vision Insurance for Canada-based employees
- EAP for Canada-based employees
- Superannuation rate of 12% for Australia-based employees
- Monthly stipend of $400 AUD to purchase private medical insurance for Australia-based employees
- Pension - Aegon for UK-based employees via EPG
- Passageways/OnBoard contributes 8% of the employee’s basic salary for UK-based employees via EPG
- Employees can contribute up to 100% of salary subject to max limits for UK-based employees via EPG
- Enrolled from Day 1 of employment for UK-based employees via EPG
- Private Medical Insurance for UK-based employees via EPG
- Life Assurance for UK-based employees via EPG
- Income Protection for UK-based employees via EPG
- Critical Illness coverage for UK-based employees via EPG
- Employee Assistance Programme for UK-based employees via EPG
- Serious Illness Benefit for UK-based employees via EPG
- Help@Hand for UK-based employees via EPG
- Cashplan for UK-based employees via EPG
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