Principal, Software Development Engineer
About The Position
Cotality is seeking a Principal, Software Development Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for Onehome, a consumer-facing real estate platform that supports millions of users and integrates property listing data across a large Multiple Listing Service ecosystem. The role will lead architecture and modernization initiatives for a Java-based, cloud-hosted platform while remaining closely involved in engineering work. It will focus on simplifying distributed systems, improving cloud-native architecture, and advancing AI-native engineering practices to increase productivity and accelerate software delivery. The Principal Engineer will guide architecture and technical standards across teams, improve application scalability, security, resilience, and performance, and collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, Data, and Engineering partners. The position also includes mentoring engineers and evaluating technologies and approaches that improve software quality, reliability, and development velocity.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on Java and Spring Boot engineering experience.
- Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale software solutions in production environments.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and modern design patterns.
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction across teams.
- Experience with cloud platforms, DevOps, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience applying AI-powered development tools, automation, or AI-native engineering practices as part of the software development workflow.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical decisions and influence engineering teams.
Nice To Haves
- Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes experience.
- Elasticsearch experience, including cluster architecture, index design, reindexing strategies, and query optimization at scale.
- Kafka experience, including event-driven architecture, partitioning, schema evolution, and consumer group design.
- Angular experience.
- PostgreSQL and Redis experience.
- Experience with agentic software engineering workflows, context engineering, specification-driven development, or AI-enabled engineering automation.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and modernization initiatives across complex, distributed software systems.
- Design and evolve scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing applications and services.
- Provide technical leadership for a Java and Spring Boot microservices environment running on Google Cloud Platform.
- Evaluate service boundaries and architecture patterns to simplify systems, reduce operational overhead, and improve maintainability.
- Drive cloud-native engineering improvements, including evolving applications toward Kubernetes-based deployment models.
- Lead technical design reviews and influence engineering standards across the team.
- Improve search and data architecture using technologies including Elasticsearch and Kafka.
- Apply AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows to software development, testing, documentation, and engineering automation.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, Data, and Engineering partners.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and engineering approaches that improve software quality, reliability, and development velocity.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off and 11 paid holidays, plus well-being and volunteer time off.
- Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a baby stipend.
- Multiple medical plan options with mental health and wellness support offerings.
- 401(k) with company match and vesting after one year.
- $400 annual well-being stipend.
- Tuition assistance up to $5,250.
- Recognition Rewards, referral bonuses, and exclusive discounts.
- Flexible working model, competitive time off, health coverage, and growth opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
