Lead Principal Software Engineer — Own Core Systems

Energy Innovation Corp; Coeur d'Alene (ID); On-site; USD 141,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Paid time off

Mentorship

Job summary

VentureCore in Coeur d'Alene, ID seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead critical systems beyond code, earning $141,000–$196,000 annually with full medical, dental, vision, PTO, and mentorship from day one.

You will own the Leadership subsystem, wire Ansible APIs to gRPC, and ensure production reliability across Django-based applications while guiding roadmap discussions and incident response. Willingness to commute or work flexibly as needed is valued.

Qualifications

• Detail-oriented with accuracy focus.
• Ownership and accountability for systems.
• Ability to learn new tech quickly and apply it.

Responsibilities

• Wire Ansible APIs to gRPC for data landings.
• Monitor gRPC error budgets and prevent burnout of teams.
• Own the Leadership subsystem used by other teams.
• Troubleshoot production incidents in Django apps.
• Contribute to sprint planning and tech roadmaps.
• Containerize apps and manage deployments with Azure and Selenium.
• Hand off Linux runbooks; document undocumented services.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Ownership

Active Listening

Learning agility

Independent work

Team collaboration

Tools

Ansible

gRPC

Django

Azure

Selenium

Linux

Job description

VentureCore in Coeur d'Alene, ID seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead critical systems beyond code, earning $141,000–$196,000 annually with full medical, dental, vision, PTO, and mentorship from day one.

You will own the Leadership subsystem, wire Ansible APIs to gRPC, and ensure production reliability across Django-based applications while guiding roadmap discussions and incident response. Willingness to commute or work flexibly as needed is valued.