Principal Software Engineer

ADP; Forest Home (NY); Remote; USD 102,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer, where you will lead initiatives to enhance HR workflow automation. This remote role allows you to leverage your 12+ years of experience in modern web development and cloud technologies to build exceptional solutions that empower people-focused teams. Work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders, engage in the full software development lifecycle, and contribute to a culture of innovation and excellence. If you're passionate about driving positive change and making a difference in the industry, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Matched Retirement Savings

Wellness Program

Short-and Long-Term Disability

Charitable Contribution Match

Paid Volunteer Time Off

Personal Days & Vacation

Qualifications

• 12+ years in web development and cloud technologies.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD, and scaling distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test code in an Agile environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions.

Skills

NodeJS

React

DevOps

Cloud Technologies

Database Architecture

Technical Leadership

Agile Methodologies

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS (EC2, SQS, SES)

Postgres

Job description

Sora, an ADP company, is hiring a Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer.

Accepting applications until 1/31/2025.

Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to build what’s next?

This role is remote anywhere in the United States.

Sora, an HR Workflow automation product, is empowering people-focused teams to create exceptional employee experiences. HR teams should be spending time with people, but unfortunately all facets of People teams are bogged down by managing processes instead of helping people. That’s where Sora comes in: we’re building a product that streamlines the tedious and repetitive work People teams do every day, from sending emails to assigning onboarding tasks to a new hire’s manager to syncing data across anywhere from 3 to 20 tools in a customer’s HR stack.

As a Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer, you'll be an integral part of the agile and dynamic Sora engineering team. We take a startup mindset—focused, action-oriented, and quick to execute, while always being thoughtful in our approach.

In this role, you'll collaborate with a diverse group of stakeholders, including Product Managers, Architects, DevOps Engineers, QA Engineers, and our Customer Success team. Together, you'll plan, design, develop, test, and deploy impactful solutions that cater to businesses of all sizes—from small teams to large enterprises. You’ll also engage closely with cross-functional teams across ADP, contributing throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)—from product alignment and technical discovery to end-to-end integration and ongoing support. Success in this role requires strong collaboration, excellent communication, and deep technical expertise.

To thrive in this role, you’ll need 12+ years of experience in modern web development and cloud technologies, and substantial experience in DevOps (CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, production support).

You’ll lead initiatives to build services and infrastructure for our system, improve performance, scale, and the –ilities (reliability, observability, etc), and contribute to the foundation of our engineering team. You’ll help us keep our code up-to-date with best practices, and be a champion for shipping well-tested and well-organized code.

You’ll be a driver for positive change to Sora’s engineering culture, processes and technology.

As part of our team, you’ll find exciting challenges, get opportunities to grow your career, and develop solid friendships as we design what’s next for Sora, ADP, and the industry.

Like what you see? Apply now!

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

• Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent.
• 12+ years of professional experience in relevant skills (in the tech stack below) gained and developed in the same or similar role.
• NodeJS
• React (or similar modern front-end framework)
• Postgres
• AWS (EC2, SQS, SES) or similar cloud experience

NOTE: Experience in all of these areas is not strictly required. However, we expect Principal engineers to have significant experience in a majority of the stack and to onboard quickly, ramping up to Principal level proficiency on our technologies and tools within a few months.

• Substantial (8+ years) of DevOps, infrastructure, and CI/CD experience, including security, performance and scale.
• Substantial (8+ years) experience scaling distributed systems, database architecture, observability, security/vulnerability reduction, message queuing.
• Significant experience writing technical plans/proposals, completing Proofs of Concept, making and defending recommendations on technical direction/strategy, and leading multiple simultaneous technical projects across multiple scrum teams and/or departments.
• Demonstrated success as a cross-functional collaborator and problem solver, working closely with multiple teams throughout an organization.
• 8+ years experience as a technical leader and mentor to new or more junior developers.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Here’s what you can expect on a typical day:

• Agile. No two days are the same! You’ll design, develop, and test code. You’re perform code reviews for your teammates. Some days you’ll participate in stand-ups and every two weeks you’ll have sprint planning meetings. You’ll also get to interact with our customer success and sales teams to hear directly from clients and prospects.
• Build Products. You will use your technical expertise to review your team’s work and help your people excel in an Agile environment. You’re proactive and hands-on. When you see a potential issue, you never leave things hanging and unfinished. When you and your team deliver a finished product, it’s as polished as you could make it.

Base salary offers for this position may vary based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. Some positions may include additional compensation in the form of bonus, equity or commissions. We offer the following benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Matched Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short-and Long-Term Disability, Charitable Contribution Match, Holidays, Personal Days & Vacation, Paid Volunteer Time Off, and more. The compensation for this role is $102,100.00 - $273,150.00 / Year

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP: ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including: race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation