ChartHop is on a mission to create healthy transparency within organizations, so that employees and organizations thrive. We are looking for a Principal Engineer. 

Principal Engineer

Salary range - $170- $235K base plus bonus and equity

Job Mission

As a Principal Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship on design, code, and strong engineering practices. You’ll be joining a small but agile team where you can help to drive both the mission and technical direction of Charthop. You’ll work on a modern stack (Kotlin, React, TypeScript, MongoDB, AWS).

As a Principal Engineer, you will:

• Own the completion and project management of major components and initiatives end-to-end
• Write maintainable, well-organized, secure code that creates amazing experiences for our customers.
• Give feedback and contribute to product and architectural requirements, high-level roadmap, and product strategy, while following agreed acceptance criteria in development work
• Actively recruit, interview, and screen team members to help build a world-class engineering team
• Thoughtfully balance scalability, data security, and customer experience, while always keeping our system as simple as possible (but no simpler)
• Fix bugs, dig into escalated support issues, work together to solve problems
• Deliver realistic estimates around work, and work autonomously to deliver committed work on the deadline
• Write documentation and test coverage that helps other engineers that follow after you
• Code review, give peer feedback, and communicate actively with teammates to help everyone succeed
• Onboard other engineers, and contribute to tooling and processes that help make the whole team better
• Off-hours response to critical system incidents or high-priority defects that are blocking customers
• Mentor engineers at all levels
• Build effective relationships with non-engineering functions, including product, design, operations, business development, people, and marketing, as well as company leadership

Skills and Experiences We Value:

• Extensive experience as a software engineer
• Desire to work both the back-end and front-end codebases.
• You have a desire to work on a platform that is relentlessly customer focused
• Excited to work at an early-stage startup.
• You have a track record of taking ownership and showing initiative

Wondering if you meet the qualifications? We seek to continue to grow an inclusive and representative team that will enhance our perspectives, skill sets, background and behaviors.  We encourage engineering professionals who are passionate about this work to apply!

Who we are: 

ChartHop is on a mission to create healthy transparency within organizations so that employees and organizations thrive.  A dynamic People Operations Platform, ChartHop connects and visualizes people data to empower organizations through insights, alignment, and action. Bringing a fresh approach to HR, ChartHop’s People Operations Platform is the unified source for people data and the main point of action for day-to-day programs, processes, and initiatives. From People and Finance executives to managers and employees, ChartHop is designed for everyone in the organization.  

ChartHop plays well with dozens of platforms through robust integrations across the HR tech stack, and serves companies like 1Password, YipitData, BetterCloud, and Starburst. Founded in 2019 by Ian White, ChartHop is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Cox Enterprises. Visit ChartHop.com to learn more and follow ChartHop on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Our Core Values:

ChartHop commits to being fair, inclusive, anti-racist, and equitable. We’re building ChartHop to be the best People Software on the planet and that starts with hiring the best people globally. We’re building an inclusive culture we’re looking for people who embrace our core values:

• Fast: Move with intentional speed.
• Inclusive: Welcome our differences.
• Transparent: Trust, collaborate, share.
• Optimistic: Dream big, think practically.

Perks and Benefits:

• Inclusive Benefits and Perks for all humans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, LTD, STD)
• Mental Health Benefits (Spring Health, Headspace, Calm) 
• Gender Affirming Benefits 
• Fertility Benefits
• Work-from-home supplies stipend
• Professional development stipend
• 20 Vacation days 
• 13 Public Holidays
• Flex Fridays
• 401K Match (US Employees)
• Parental leave
• Pet insurance

Please note, our salary ranges are based on current market data. Should you feel strongly that we are not in line, we highly recommend you to reach out and let us know. We are always looking to improve on building the best place for employees!

ChartHop is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.