Principal Software Engineer

LawnStarter

4h • Remote

About The Position

We’re currently hiring a Principal Software Engineer to join our growing remote team.

Help Us Build the Future of Outdoor Services
At LawnStarter, we’re transforming the $100B+ outdoor home services industry—making it easier for homeowners to book, manage, and enjoy services like lawn care, landscaping, and more. With $30M+ in venture funding and solid traction, we’re investing in the next generation of our platform—and we’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help drive it.
📹 See what we’re building
🌟 Why This Role Rocks
Own What You Build – Lead projects end-to-end with full autonomy and real impact.
Remote & Flexible – Work from anywhere and set your own hours.
Build Meaningful Tech – Help shape the tools that thousands of homeowners and service pros rely on daily.
Join at the Right Time – We have strong product-market fit and real momentum—you’ll help define what comes next.
💻 Our Tech Stack
Languages & Frameworks: PHP (Laravel), JavaScript (React, React Native, Vue)
Cloud Services: AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora, Redshift)
Approach: We’re not fixated on specific languages. If you have strong engineering fundamentals and experience with any mainstream object-oriented language, we believe you can quickly learn and adapt to our tech stack.

Requirements

• A principal engineer, lead full-stack engineer, or someone with relevant experience in similar roles.
• Highly skilled in both server-side and client-side software development.
• Familiar with cloud development (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).
• Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD), RESTful APIs, React, MVC frameworks, and security concerns (e.g., XSS attacks).
• You can explain concepts like Big O notation, pointers, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures such as arrays, sets, and linked lists.
• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases, and understand operations like CRUD, indexes, and joins.
• Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora) and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
• Passionate about clean code and building customer-driven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on designing and implementing system architecture, technical strategy, and engineering standards.
• Lead technical initiatives across teams, ensuring alignment with architectural direction and goals.
• Build and maintain platform-level components, services, and libraries that enhance engineering efficiency and system maintainability.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and hands-on guidance.
• Contribute directly to both server-side and client-side development across the entire stack.
• Write and review technical design documents, system diagrams, and reference implementations.
• Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks, and best practices to continuously improve our platform.
• Enhance observability, performance, scalability, and security throughout our system.
• Share knowledge and insights to foster team growth and improvement.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision
• Work remotely from anywhere you want.
• Unlimited PTO: We focus on results. Take the time you need to recharge or enjoy life, work hard when you are back.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed