Principal Software Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

the company is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle, WA, onsite. You will be the primary technical builder on a small team, owning design and delivery of production software across leasing, operations, and reporting functions.

The stack is TypeScript/Node, SvelteKit, Postgres, Azure and Cloudflare, and you will shape payments workflows and ERP replacements. This is a builder role, not an engineering manager, with strong ownership and ability to influence how the business runs in

Qualifications

• Design and implement production software with high ownership.
• Strong coding and system design skills for scalable solutions.
• Experience with modern web stacks is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production software with rapid business impact.
• Lead architecture for modules like payments/treasury and ERP replacements.
• Collaborate with a small team and CEO to deliver results on timelines.

Skills

System design

Production software development

Ownership

Tools

TypeScript/Node

SvelteKit

Postgres

Azure

Cloudflare

Job description

the company | Principal Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | $160–180k

We are a fast growing tech enabled property management company. We manage 9,000+ apartments across the Pacific Northwest, growing 40-50% p.a. Over the last several years we've been building our own software platform, Maynard, to run more and more of the company.

We're looking for an exceptional senior engineer to become the principal technical builder on a very small team.

We're not a software company and don't want to become one. We don't plan to build a big engineering organization. Instead, we think a small number of very good engineers can have enormous leverage inside an operating company where most of the existing software is pretty bad.

There's a lot to build. Maynard already touches leasing, property operations, communications, maintenance, document processing and reporting. We're now working on things like payments and treasury, replacing parts of our property management ERP, and using LLMs to automate workflows that previously required people reading documents or moving information between systems.

Our stack is mostly TypeScript/Node, SvelteKit, Postgres, Azure and Cloudflare. We're not particularly concerned whether you've used those exact technologies.You'd work directly with me (CEO, CS/math background) and a small team. This is primarily a builder role, not an engineering management job. We're looking for someone who is very good at designing and building production software, wants a lot of ownership, and likes the idea of their work changing how an actual business operates within weeks rather than years.