Principal Software Engineer
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.
🌱 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.
