Principal Software Engineer

Company DescriptionJob Description
What if you could use your technology skills to develop a product that impacts the way communities' hospitals, homes, sports stadiums, and schools across the world are built? Construction impacts the lives of nearly everyone in the world, and yet it's also one of the world's least digitized industries, not to mention one of the most dangerous. That's why we're looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to join Procore's journey to revolutionize a historically underserved industry.
As a Principal Software Engineer in our Workforce Management Division, you'll contribute directly to growing our enterprise-level construction workforce-focused solutions. Your direct input will help us design and implement a system to link millions of tradespeople to both internal and external applications, clients, and services. In collaboration with Product, QA, UX, and other teams, you'll identify critical areas, develop roadmaps, and drive immediate and long-term strategic direction for major parts of the technology stack. If you're a strong leader with proven experience evaluating industry best-of-class technical approacheswe have a spot for you on our team.
Backed by the might of our teams, you'll be provided with the tools and resources needed to achieve extraordinary results that render a significant impact extending beyond the boundaries of traditional engineering roles.
This position will report to the Engineering Manager in our Workforce Management Division and has the opportunity to work remotely from any U.S. location or flexibly from our U.S.-based offices. We're looking for someone to join us immediately.
What you'll do:
Architect and design sophisticated application-level services that servehundreds of millions of requests per day to the web, mobile, and 3rd party applications for large-scale labor, equipment, and material management
Continuously drive the evolution of one of the best APIs in construction by collaboratively iterating the API Architecture and Specification with feedback from customers and developers
Coordinate integrations with major 3rd party integrators and services
Use a collaborative approach to lead architectural design decisions that improve scalability and performance
Develop teammates by conducting code reviews, providing mentorship, pairing, and training opportunities
Serve as a subject matter expert in a domain, including tools, processes, and procedures that help guide others to create and maintain a healthy codebase
Drive key projects, including:
Scalability: We're scaling Ruby on Rails and need engineers who are ready to take on the challenge of working on living systems with millions of users
Collaboration: We're building world-class solutions for construction subcontractors that must work together to provide real-world value on and off the job site. These solutions will help to capture real-time information about Labor/Equipment/Materials use, extend insights on the data, and forecast to improve projects down the road
Microservices: We build, maintain, and develop a wide series of microservices and are looking for engineers adept at discovering new opportunities and driving them to completion
What we're looking for:
10+ years experience in Object Oriented Program fundamentals, Test Driven Development, and Design principles (Ruby on Rails, Python, C++, Java)
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or comparable work experience
Track record of anticipating technical problems that will fall out of major projects and designing solutions to overcome those problems
Demonstrated expertise inbuilding and/or significantly improving large, business-critical systems involving stability, performance, and scalability
Experience with large-scale frontend and backend applications; experience working with and developing RESTful APIs
Time-honed expertise with modern web development across the entire spectrum of development, testing, staging, deploying, and monitoringQualificationsAdditional Information
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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 employees on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.

Perks & Benefits
You are a person with dreams, goals, and ambitionsboth personally and professionally. That's why we believe in providing benefits that not only match our Procore values (Openness, Optimism, and Ownership) but enhance the lives of our team members. Here are just a few of our benefit offerings: generous paid vacation, employee stock purchase plan, enrichment and development programs, and friends and family events.