Entrata’s Principal Engineer is who we rely on to take ownership of projects and see them across the finish line, and advocate for the latest tools, technologies, and best practices. The Principal Engineer role is a critical role in Entratal's transition away from monolithic architectures to lean distributed architectures. The principal engineer works as a mentor, influencer, and hands-on contributor. The Principal Engineer delivers value by technically strengthening his/her team and owning value delivery. As part of our Development team based in our Lehi, UT HQ, this role requires the ability to be the best and brightest. We’re looking for someone highly motivated, innovative, and disruptive; a fast worker, and a fierce competitor.
responsibilities
- Help others across the company to architect, write and implement efficient, readable, testable, reliable code for a high-volume cloud environment, while continuing to contribute own code.
- Plan and deliver multi-quarter projects that share dependencies across the R&D org.
- Advises on the most complex challenges with organization-wide issues toward world class solutions; advise and drive improvements to practices, processes, goals and strategies
- Owns quality and customer value of features in own product and fundamentally improves the quality of work done by entire company
- Has expertise in the organization’s architecture, including all domains, their bounded contexts, and how they interact with each other
- Models asking questions to gather feedback across guilds, teams, committees and projects to improve personally and to provide feedback to senior leadership on strategic impact opportunities across the R&D org
- Identify and solve the worst bottlenecks that affect overall productivity and efficiency across the whole company
- Become a primary expert in multiple areas of our stack, demonstrating deep knowledge of all our products, technology, and architecture
- Responsible to ensure user stories adhere to architectural and coding standards to enable all team members to take on a gradually growing number of story points per sprint, and predictably complete them at a high quality despite barriers.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of software development experience
- Domain-Driven Design and event storming based planning
- CI/CD tools and experience
- Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, trust-building, conflict-resolution, and writing skills
- Passionate about creatively solving business problems.
- Effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- The ability to non-emotionally coach and mentor others.
- The ability to not participate in 'techno-arrogant' conversation.
- Meet multiple, challenging deadlines while communicating expectations clearly.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering
- Experience working in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry
When Entrata claims “Be the Joneses'' as one of our core values, we mean what we say. We have been setting the standard for property management technology for nearly 20 years and continue to lead innovation in an industry that provides housing to tens of thousands of apartment communities around the world. People who come to work at Entrata are the Real Deal: straight-talking, forward-thinking, hard workers who come together both to collaborate and to have a good time.
But members of the ’Jones Family’ aren’t just smart and ambitious, they’re the living embodiment of another core Value: “Be Excellent to Each Other.” Entrata is dedicated to creating a workplace where a diverse and inclusive team thrives in an environment free from discrimination. We provide equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.
It’s a great place to work; a place where we live by the words “Business in the Front, Party in the Back.” Will you join us?
