AI-First Principal Engineer, Core Product Platform

Homebase, Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 260,000 - 306,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) match

Healthcare coverage

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Remote-friendly

Meals provided

Commuter benefits

Team offsites

Customer Days

Job summary

Homebase, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer, Core Product, in a hybrid San Francisco role to guide architecture across Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, and HRM. You will shape long-term technical strategy and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, reliable systems.

You will partner with product, data, and design leadership to align roadmaps with business priorities and drive AI-enabled improvements that accelerate velocity and quality.

Qualifications

12+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in scaling distributed systems and evolving legacy architectures.
Strong background in Ruby/Rails.

Responsibilities

Drive Homebase’s technical vision and architecture across Core Product domains (Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, HRM).
Lead API strategy to enable internal velocity, external integrations, and partnerships.
Decompose core product systems into well-bounded services using domain-driven design.
Mentor senior engineers to raise the overall bar and foster engineering excellence.
Partner with Product, Data, Design and Engineering leadership to align roadmaps with business priorities.
Experiment with and deploy AI-enabled improvements to accelerate workflows and quality.

Skills

Ruby/Rails

Job description

You will partner with product, data, and design leadership to align roadmaps with business priorities and drive AI-enabled improvements that accelerate velocity and quality.

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