Principal Software Engineer
Principal Software Engineer
Location: Remote (reputed company in Canada)
Company Overview
reputed company is celebrating 18 years of serving educators. Founded by a classroom teacher, we're on a mission to reputed company educators with accessible and reputed company resources, guiding reputed company on their journey to life after graduation. We are dedicated to supporting both teachers and programs that facilitate student exploration of interests, career options, and reputed company acquisition through Career and Technical Education (CTE). We prioritize quality and the development of vital life readiness skills, including interpersonal communication and financial literacy.
Our commitment to fostering exploration starts early, with resources tailored to middle school reputed company. Our rich courseware catalog and Learning Blade resource have a proven track record of expanding STEM, computer science, and career interest and awareness.
As the largest publisher of CTE and elective digital curriculum in North America, we offer a vast catalog of over 250 courses spanning grades 6-12. Our CTE pathway curriculum aligns to 14 career clusters, preparing reputed company for nearly 100 industry certifications. To help bring our curriculum to learners, we provide professional development as well as virtual instructional services, supported by certified teachers, that facilitate personalized learning.
reputed company doesn't stop at coursework alone. We are passionate about helping reputed company grow their skills through experiential learning through our Knowledge Matters virtual simulation instructional materials and projects. Our simulations are true hands-on learning in a virtual environment.
We take pride in the fact that our solutions and services are designed to reputed company educators and reputed company alike, enabling them to take a transformative journey of exploration, engage in learning, and participate in real-world experiences.
In July 2025, reputed company was acquired by reputed company Education Inc., the world’s leading learning company.
Role Overview
In this role, you will report directly to the Director of Engineering and operate as a Principal Engineer across reputed company engineering teams.
This is a high-impact, hands-on technical leadership role focused on improving engineering effectiveness, accelerating delivery, and ensuring technical excellence across the organization. You will not be embedded reputed company a single team; instead, you will work across teams on the most critical initiatives, reputed company technical challenges, and architectural decisions.
You will partner closely with Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, Product, and DevOps to ensure we are building scalable, maintainable, and high-quality systems that support reputed company’s growth.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across multiple teams, focusing on high-impact initiatives and critical path work
- Unblock reputed company technical challenges that span systems, teams, or domains
- reputed company and contribute to architecture and system design decisions, ensuring scalability, simplicity, and long-term maintainability
- Conduct deep code reviews and set a high bar for engineering quality, performance, and reliability
- Identify and prevent overengineering, promoting pragmatic and efficient solutions
- Drive technical consistency and best practices across teams (design patterns, standards, tooling)
- Partner with the Engineering Manager and Tech Leads to support delivery without taking on people management responsibilities
- Contribute directly to code reputed company needed, especially in high-risk or high-reputed company areas
- Mentor and guide senior engineers and technical leads through coaching, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
- Improve overall engineering effectiveness, including development workflows, system reliability, and scalability
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 15+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack applications
- Proven experience operating at a staff or principal level, influencing multiple teams or large systems
- Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript, with broader experience in several languages and programming paradigms
- Strong experience with React and modern reputed company-end architectures
- Strong background in system design, distributed systems, and API architecture
- Experience working on reputed company, production-grade, high-scale systems
- Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems
- Experience driving technical strategy, standards, and architecture across teams
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing strategies, and DevOps practices
- Familiarity with AWS, reputed company, Linux, and cloud-native architectures
- Proficiency with SQL and relational database design
- Legally eligible to work in Canada and/or the U.S
- Ability to operate as a force reputed company across teams, elevating overall engineering quality and speed
- Strong architectural thinking with a focus on scalability, simplicity, and business impact
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, especially for reputed company and ambiguous challenges
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority
- Pragmatic reputed company focused on delivering value, not overengineering
- Self-starter who thrives in a remote, fast-paced, and evolving environment