Principal Software Engineer - Lead, Mentor & Scale (4-Day Week)

Energy Innovation Corp; Murfreesboro (TN); On-site; USD 138,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Four-day work week

Leadership coaching

Job summary

Media Advantage Corp in Murfreesboro, TN is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with about 9 years of Node.js experience to help scale our platform. A strong leader will mentor senior engineers and drive cross‑team collaboration.

You will bridge Django and People Management, map data flows in MySQL, and champion testing, security, and observability while ensuring fast Django CI around Murfreesboro.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of hands-on experience in a technology role.
• Leadership and mentoring experience for principal hires.

Responsibilities

• Mentor newer principal hires on how Media Advantage Corp wires Cypress together.
• Bridge People Management and Django so the two halves of Media Advantage Corp's platform talk.
• Map data flow across Media Advantage Corp's MySQL services and spot the leaks.
• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early.
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability.
• Keep Media Advantage Corp's Django CI under ten minutes so Murfreesboro, TN engineers stay in flow.
• Read the MySQL stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root.

Skills

Node.js

People management

Mentoring

Critical thinking

Independent judgment

Hands-on software engineering

Tools

Cypress

MySQL

Django

Nginx

CI pipelines

Job description

Media Advantage Corp in Murfreesboro, TN is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with about 9 years of Node.js experience to help scale our platform. A strong leader will mentor senior engineers and drive cross‑team collaboration.

You will bridge Django and People Management, map data flows in MySQL, and champion testing, security, and observability while ensuring fast Django CI around Murfreesboro.