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Principal Software Engineer- AI

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Develop AI-powered SaaS applications while providing technical leadership and innovating AI-assisted development practices within a diverse and collaborative engineering culture.

Title: Principal Software Engineer

Date: 12.2025 

Function: Engineering 

Reports to: VP, Engineering

Position Summary

The Principal Software Engineer will play a critical role in designing, developing, and implementing high-quality software solutions. This position is responsible for the development of next-generation SaaS applications - including AI-powered and agentic experiences - as well as providing technical leadership for long-range investments and planning. The Principal Software Engineer has a passion for building maintainable, scalable, and beautiful applications, with heavy emphasis on optimizing user experience, solving problems, and delighting customers and business stakeholders. The Principal Software Engineer must be able to break down complex problems and design elegant, easy-to-maintain solutions that are resilient and robust. Additionally, this role provides technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the engineering team, while driving innovation in AI-assisted development practices and ensuring best practices are followed.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex software systems and solutions, including AI-powered features and agentic workflows.
  • Translate business requirements into a well-formed technical design and help bring that design to life with the team, in an iterative fashion.
  • Provide technical expertise and guidance to the engineering team, ensuring adherence to best practices and architectural principles.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable and robust software designs.
  • Mentor and coach team members, fostering their professional growth and promoting a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
  • Write reusable code, build libraries for future use, conduct code reviews, ensure code quality, and enforce coding standards.
  • Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex) to accelerate development velocity and code quality.
  • Architect and implement agentic AI systems within microservice environments, including LLM orchestration, tool integration, and autonomous workflow design.
  • Drive technical innovation and identify opportunities for process improvements and optimization.
  • Collaborate with product owners, architects, and stakeholders to define project goals, scope, and timelines.
  • Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends particularly in AI/ML and generative AI and evaluate their potential impact on our software solutions.
  • Help build and maintain a healthy engineering culture, being an advocate for diversity and inclusion across the company.

Skills and Experience Needed

  • Bachelor's Degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, or similar.
  • 10+ years proven experience of platform development, primarily developing user-facing production features on a modern web stack.
  • 5-7 years' experience building and maintaining Vue.js (or similar, e.g., React, Angular 2+) applications.
  • 5-7 years' experience developing web applications with C# and .NET Core.
  • 5+ years' experience with RESTful design patterns and microservices architecture; including high-scale cloud mechanisms like event hubs, messaging systems, and data lakes.
  • 1+ years' experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar AI coding assistants; demonstrated ability to leverage these tools to improve team productivity and code quality.
  • Experience designing and building agentic AI systems, including LLM integration, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-step autonomous workflows.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and APIs (e.g., Anthropic Claude API, OpenAI, LangChain, Semantic Kernel) and their integration into production microservice architectures.
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to analyze and resolve difficult problems quickly.
  • Experience working in a high transaction, high security environment where SOC2, ISO27001 compliance is required.
  • Strong proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, git workflow, etc.; ideally in Azure DevOps.
  • Strong CSS/JS development and testing abilities.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience in software development projects.
  • Mastery of agile development methodologies and DevOps practices.

Competencies

  • Accountability
  • Creating an Inclusive Environment
  • Driving for Results
  • Adaptability
  • Customer Focus
  • Initiating Action
  • Business Acumen
  • Dealing with Ambiguity
  • Managing Conflict
  • Collaborative Decision Making
  • Technical/Professional Knowledge/Skill
  • AI Fluency & Innovation Mindset - Ability to evaluate, adopt, and integrate emerging AI technologies into development workflows and product features
  • Systems Thinking for AI - Understanding of how autonomous agents, LLMs, and traditional software components interact within complex distributed systems

About the company:

Boards set the standard for what organizations can achieve. At OnBoard, our board management software helps boards function at a higher level so every organization can make a bigger difference in the world.

Launched in 2011, today, OnBoard serves as the board intelligence platform for more than 5,000 organizations and their 12,000 boards and committees in 60 countries worldwide. With customers in higher education, nonprofit, healthcare systems, government, and enterprise business, OnBoard is the leading board management provider.

OnBoard has grown from a class project at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2003 into the world’s leading board management software platform today. Backed by JMI Equity and the acquisitions of eScribe and Govenda, OnBoard is positioned to become the industry leader in Board Management and Meeting Solutions for private and public sector entities. 

Benefits and Perks: 

  • Company provided equipment (laptop, software, etc.) 
  • Employment with a growing, casual, fun, philanthropic minded company
  • US Based Employees
    • Comprehensive, high-quality medical/prescription drug plan options, as well as dental and vision plan offerings.   
    • An employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA) if you participate in a High Deductible Healthcare Plan.  
    • Medical Flexible Spending Accounts available.   
    • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts available.  
    • Basic life insurance in the amount of $50,000 or 1 X’s your salary (whichever is higher).  
    • Short and long-term disability and Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefits at no cost to you.  
    • 401K Retirement Savings Plan with automatic enrollment at the first of the month following 60 days of employment at 5% to help you secure your financial freedom. We offer a generous company match that starts on the first of the month following 60 days of employment. The company match is dollar for dollar on the first 3% of your pay that you contribute and $0.50 on the dollar on the next 2%, for a total match of 4%. 
    • Paid Time Off (PTO)/Holiday 
  • CAN Based Employees
    • Employer paid Life and Accidental Death Insurance
    • Contribution to Health Care Spending Account
    • Dependent Life Insurance
    • Optional Life Insurance
    • LTD Insurance
    • Drug and Paramedical Coverage
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • EAP
  • AUS Based employees
    • Monthly stipend for insurance purchase
  • UK Based Employees
    • Employer contribution to pension
    • EAP

 

Diversity Statement - Culture of Togetherness:  

At OnBoard, our mission is to encourage and celebrate a culture of togetherness. We acknowledge that uniqueness is powerful, and we welcome, foster, and appreciate all. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness fuel the Pathfinder atmosphere and all our efforts. Our power is in our people and we Pledge 1% to give back to our communities and across the globe.  

OnBoard is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse and inclusive working environment. Passageways does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation please email [email protected]. 

 

 

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Comprehensive, high-quality medical/prescription drug plan options, as well as dental and vision plan offerings.
  • Other Benefit: 401K Retirement Savings Plan with automatic enrollment at the first of the month following 60 days of employment.
  • Paid Time Off: Paid Time Off (PTO)/Holiday
  • Wellness Stipend: An employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA) if you participate in a High Deductible Healthcare Plan.
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