Principal Software Engineer

Overview
This range is provided by LawnStarter.
Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range: $115,000.00/yr - $140,000.00/yr
We're urgently hiring a Principal Software Engineer to join our growing LATAM-based remote team.
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.
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.
Qualifications / What We're Looking For
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.
Benefits
Perks of Working with Us
Competitive contract rate
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.
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