Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer - Front End to join Procore’s Construction Intelligence Team. Procore software solutions aim to improve the lives of everyone in construction and the people within Construction Intelligence are the driving force behind our innovative, top-rated global platform. We’re a customer-centric group that encompasses engineering, product, product design, data and AI, security and business systems. 

In this Principal Engineer role, you’ll join us on our journey to revolutionize a historically underserved industry. You’ll partner intimately with our customer base, translating their fundamental reporting and analytics needs into technological SaaS solutions. Use your system design, programing, and UX design experience to create a world class construction intelligence product and render a significant impact extending beyond the boundaries of traditional engineering roles. 

This position reports to the Director of Engineering, Data and AI Applications and will be based in our Austin TX office. We’re looking for someone to join us immediately. Apply today to join our team of Groundbreakers. 

What you’ll do:

•  Contribute to both core initiatives at Procore as well as independent innovative technical projects

• Drive immediate and long-term strategic direction for major parts of the technology stack, identifying critical areas based on future growth, and collaborating with Product, QA, UX, and other internal groups to develop roadmaps to attack initiatives

• Use a customer-centric approach to lead architectural design decisions that improve scalability and performance

• Develop fellow teammates by conducting code reviews, providing mentorship, pairing, and training opportunities.

• Ability to function as a subject matter expert for all things code, including tools, processes, and procedures to help guide others to create and maintain a healthy code base

• Drive groups of disparate interests to decisions, while clearly communicating and seeing those decisions through to impact.

What we’re looking for: 

• 10+ years experience in Object Oriented Program and/or Functional Programming fundamentals, Test Driven Development and Design principles.

• 10+ years experience with JavaScript. Additional preference with modern libraries and frameworks (React preferred).

• Track record of anticipating technical problems that will fall out of major projects and designing solutions to overcome those problems 

• Demonstrated expertise with building and/or significantly improving large, business-critical systems involving stability, performance, and scalability

• Experience in working and developing RESTful APIs 

• Time-honed expertise with modern web development across the entire spectrum of development, testing, staging, deploying, and monitoring

• A leader in evaluating industry best-of-class technical approaches

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