Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer
We're urgently 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

What You'll Do
As a
Principal Software Engineer
, you'll work closely with the
Software Architect
and other engineers to:

• 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.

Requirements
What We're Looking For- We're looking for someone who is:
- Experienced:
- 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.
- Technically Proficient:
- 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).
- Fundamentally Strong in Computer Science Concepts:
- You can explain concepts like Big O notation, pointers, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures such as arrays, sets, and linked lists.
- Database-Savvy:

• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases, and understand operations like CRUD, indexes, and joins.

• Cloud Infrastructure Expert:

• Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora) and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC).

• Customer-Centric:

• Passionate about clean code and building customer-driven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability

All team members at LawnStater are expected to embody our core values which are: Be data-driven, Get shit done, People are critical, Challenge the status quo, Be scrappy, and Be the Customer.
VERY IMPORTANT REMINDER: Please upload your English resume—applications without it will not be considered.
Benefits

• Perks of Working with Us

• Competitive contract rate from 120K - 150K USD annually, depending on skills and experience

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible hours—get the work done on your schedule
• High ownership and autonomy
• Fast-moving team that loves to build, learn, and grow

**LawnStarter is building the future of outdoor home services. Want to help us shape it?

Apply now and let's grow together.**