Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Skimmer is on a mission to modernize the pool and spa service and repair industry. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead their Embedded Software Development team, focusing on partner integrations and embedded financial products to enhance customer value.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a small team of development engineers while contributing technically as a player/coach
- Serve as the internal technical expert on Skimmer’s partner integration architecture, including embedded financial products and third-party offerings
- Drive evaluation, integration, and ongoing support for embedded products to ensure reliability, data accuracy, and a seamless customer experience
- Build and maintain secure APIs, webhooks, middleware, and integration patterns for partner functionality
- Partner on vendor selection and technical due diligence for prospective integration partners
- Use AI tools and best practices to improve team productivity and code quality
- Own security, compliance, and data privacy considerations across partner integrations
- Lead the build-out of the first embedded financial product integration with Product and the selected partner
- Define a reusable integration framework for auth, webhooks, retries, monitoring, and data sync
- Review and strengthen the security, compliance, and data-sharing posture for third-party integrations
Skills
- Tenured experience leading a development team in a technical leadership or player/coach role at a SaaS startup
- Strong hands-on experience building API-based, real-time integrations for SaaS products
- Deep knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, retries, idempotency, monitoring, and failure handling
- Strong development experience in C# and Microsoft SQL
- Strong business judgment and understanding of privacy, compliance, and partner risk
- High EQ and a track record of leading cross-functional work successfully
- Experience with embedded financial products or similar third-party offerings is a strong plus
- Proficiency using AI tools, preferably Claude, to improve development productivity
Benefits
- Competitive base pay + bonus potential
- Generous medical, dental, and vision plans (we pay 100% of your premium and 50% of your dependents’)
- Fantastic culture with a very strong eNPS- we work hard, celebrate wins, and learn as we go to always be improving to benefit our customers.
- Immediate access to 401(k) with company match
- Flexible PTO (MINIMUM of 10 days required every year)
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parent, 6 weeks paid leave for supporting partner
- Remote work friendly
- Comprehensive learning and development budget
- A manager dedicated to your development
- At Skimmer we are deeply committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace (it’s in our values). We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to identify and onboard people from all walks of life. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.
- We also acknowledge that there is no “perfect” candidate - if you fulfill the majority of these requirements, believe this is a role you would be excited about on a daily basis, and resonate with our culture, we encourage you to apply.
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