Principal Software Engineer

Shopping Excellence Corp; Bossier City (LA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopping Excellence Corp in the United States (Bossier City, LA) seeks a Principal Software Engineer to turn ambitious ideas about gRPC into customer-ready solutions. This role offers high ownership and a transparent growth ladder as you scale with the team.

You will drive backward-compatible Swift schemas, document critical systems, and mentor junior engineers while aligning with client-focused, temporary teams.

Qualifications

• 9+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way.
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision.
• Familiarity with the rhythms of a client-focused temporary team.

Responsibilities

• Document the Written Communication system so the next principal engineer onboards in days, not weeks
• Keep Swift schemas backward-compatible so Shopping Excellence Corp never forces a breaking upgrade
• Question the maker-minded Stress Management pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
• Hand off gRPC runbooks so the next on-call at Shopping Excellence Corp sleeps better
• Own the learning-obsessed Stress Management subsystem that the rest of Shopping Excellence Corp quietly depends on
• Pair Stress Management and MongoDB in a pipeline Shopping Excellence Corp can extend without your help later
• Reach into legacy Webpack modules and leave them cleaner than you found them
• Bridge gRPC and Linux so the two halves of Shopping Excellence Corp's platform finally talk

Skills

Decision making

Client-focused teamwork

Strong communication

9+ years experience

Tools

gRPC

Swift

MongoDB

Linux

Webpack

Job description

Shopping Excellence Corp is looking for a Principal Software Engineer who can turn underdog-spirited ideas about gRPC into something a customer never has to think about. Everything here scales with you — $136,000 - $191,000 at 10 years, technology ownership soon after, and a Shopping Excellence Corp ladder above.

Key Responsibilities

• Document the Written Communication system so the next principal engineer onboards in days, not weeks
• Keep Swift schemas backward-compatible so Shopping Excellence Corp never forces a breaking upgrade
• Question the maker-minded Stress Management pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
• Hand off gRPC runbooks so the next on-call at Shopping Excellence Corp sleeps better
• Own the learning-obsessed Stress Management subsystem that the rest of Shopping Excellence Corp quietly depends on
• Pair Stress Management and MongoDB in a pipeline Shopping Excellence Corp can extend without your help later
• Reach into legacy Webpack modules and leave them cleaner than you found them
• Bridge gRPC and Linux so the two halves of Shopping Excellence Corp's platform finally talk

What You'll Bring

• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision
• A LA work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway
• Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before
• Familiarity with the rhythms of a client-focused temporary team
• 9+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way
• A Shopping Excellence Corp mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow

The founders of Shopping Excellence Corp left bigger companies to build something autonomy-rich in Bossier City, and technology has been better for it. New hires ship something real in week one, because we'd rather you learn by doing.

Come for $136,000 - $191,000, stay for the mentorship, the benefits, and the rare flexibility that makes Shopping Excellence Corp a detail-focused place to grow.

The Shopping Excellence Corp team is expanding in Bossier City, LA this quarter, and this seat is part of that growth.