Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join Procore’s Resource Management team. In this role, you’ll have the unique opportunity to drive the next generation of construction platform initiatives in a global SaaS infrastructure. You’ll work with our dedicated and talented team spanning Engineering, Product Management, UX and Architects to create and scale the next generation Procore experience on our web platform. You’ll bring your deep experience in Web, Backend, UI/UX, Micro Front-end to evolve our Resource Management products to a platform-oriented approach.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be primarily responsible for establishing the strategic technical direction, creating reference patterns, and will be additionally responsible for actively driving the effective execution of that strategy for one of Procore’s core product areas. This is a great opportunity to use your leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills to build highly effective systems and practices, foster collaborative relationships, and measure value delivered to our customers.

This position reports to the Senior Director (India) with the opportunity to be located in the Bengaluru or Pune office. We’re looking for someone to join our team immediately.

What you’ll do: (6-8 bullets)

• Plan and build, and implement scalable user interface systems that delight users for very complex construction workflows

• Collaborate with other engineers, designers and managers to understand user pain points and refine great solutions

• Lead code reviews and documentation, and take on complex bug fixes and architectural improvements

• Drive the success of projects, from the technical design, implementation, and launch to operation

• Onboard and mentor other engineers

• Coach others how to apply architecture patterns common to the team

• Hands-on development and coding of architecture and systems that meet the test of time for a variety of web modalities

• Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, industry innovations, trends and architecture patterns, sharing customer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in

• Collaborate with leaders across engineering, product management, UX and business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and align technology solutions to business goals

• Lead efforts to develop predictive capabilities for technology disruption by leveraging broad data sources

• Establishing and maintaining our overall technology strategy which supports and enables our multi-year corporate and product strategies, and which embodies our P&T and Engineering Principles

What we’re looking for: (6-8 bullets)

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or comparable work experience

• 12+ years experience in Software Engineering, Test Driven Development and Design principles for web and full stack applications at scale with distributed architectures

• Experience with Javascript (ES6), HTML5, CSS and experience with modern Javascript frameworks (e.g., React, AngularJS, Vue).

• 5+ years experience working on full-stack modern applications and frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Nest.js, React, Typescript, Angular)

• 5+ years experience in Object-Oriented Program fundamentals, Test Driven Development and Design principles (Ruby, Java, Go, NodeJS, Python)

• Understanding of the modern frontend ecosystem, including but not limited to bundling, linting, testing and releasing.

• Extensive experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Mocha, Chai).

• Experience designing and building software in a Service-Oriented Architecture

• Track record of anticipating technical problems that will fall out of major projects and designing solutions to overcome those problems

• Strong experience documenting and bringing team clarity to complex solutions

• Time-honed expertise with modern web development across the entire spectrum of development, testing, staging, deploying, and monitoring

• A curious mind that is driven to innovate and solve customer problems

• Strong comfortability with the JavaScript language and ecosystem.

• Experience in Agile software development methodologies.

• Experience engineering software systems of medium-to-large scope and complexity.

• Experience mentoring more junior engineers.

• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization and promote a culture of engineering excellence and being well-managed, using opportunities to reuse and inner-source solutions where possible

• Demonstrated ability to influence and drive change within the organization, promoting innovation and continuous improvement
  Being comfortable with the overall responsibility and accountability to create and maintain a technical strategy and execution plan

• Proven track record of distilling ambiguity to clarity and direction

Additional Information

Perks & Benefits

At Procore, we invest in our employees and provide a full range of benefits and perks to help you grow and thrive. From generous paid time off and healthcare coverage to career enrichment and development programs, learn more details about what we offer and how we empower you to be your best.

About Us

Procore Technologies is building the software that builds the world. We provide cloud-based construction management software that helps clients more efficiently build skyscrapers, hospitals, retail centers, airports, housing complexes, and more. At Procore, we have worked hard to create and maintain a culture where you can own your work and are encouraged and given resources to try new ideas. Check us out on Glassdoor to see what others are saying about working at Procore.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome builders of all backgrounds. We thrive in a diverse, dynamic, and inclusive environment. We do not tolerate discrimination against candidates or employees on the basis of gender, sex, national origin, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, traveler community, status as a protected veteran or any other classification protected by law.

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