Principal Software Engineer

Business Transformation Partners; Hot Springs (AR); On-site; USD 127,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Transformation Partners is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for an on-site role in Hot Springs. The position emphasizes ownership of technology work, collaboration across teams, and a roadmap that includes Spring Boot and microservices expertise.

This freelance role offers scheduling flexibility and a structured plan to grow your Spring Boot capabilities, with a compensation range of $127,000 to $197,000 per year.

Qualifications

• 9+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks.
• 9+ years of Microservices reps, not just exposure.
• Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level.

Responsibilities

• Translate outages into fixes that prevent future incidents.
• Refactor a critical technology module without destabilizing the system.
• Turn on-call noise into meaningful alerts for the team.
• Prototype rough ideas quickly and decide which to invest in.
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production.
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with the user base.
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Microservices and Selenium.
• Document technical decisions, architecture, and APIs for the broader org.

Skills

Ownership of outcomes

Microservices experience

Stakeholder presentations

Cross-functional collaboration

Freelance/work scheduling

Tools

Spring Boot

Microservices

Selenium

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Step into a principal engineering role where Scrum and Selenium drive everything we build at Business Transformation Partners. Business Transformation Partners frames it as a partnership — $127,000 - $197,000 for your 9 years, ownership of technology work, and growth shared both ways.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate the low-drama Spring Boot outage into fixes that make the next Hot Springs launch dull
• Refactor the technology module Business Transformation Partners has been afraid to touch
• Turn Business Transformation Partners's Presentation Skills on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Prototype rough Multitasking ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Business Transformation Partners's stack
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with Business Transformation Partners's growing user base
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Microservices and Selenium
• Document technical decisions, architecture, and APIs for the broader org

What You'll Bring

• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
• 9+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks
• 9+ years of Microservices reps, not just Microservices exposure
• Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level
• Working familiarity with freelance schedules and team norms at Business Transformation Partners
• Cross-functional ease, from Multitasking engineers to Presentation Skills marketers
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet

For all its plainspoken ambition, Business Transformation Partners still operates like the scrappy Hot Springs startup that first cracked technology years ago. We hand new Principal Software Engineer hires real ownership early because trust given freely tends to be returned.

This freelance role pays $127,000 - $197,000 and includes flexible scheduling plus a structured plan to grow your Spring Boot expertise.