Principal Software Engineer - Remote, Scalable Systems Lead

Energy Innovation Corp; Athens (GA); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Power Plus Group is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design, build, and ship software serving millions of users daily. The role offers remote flexibility with a base in Athens, GA and rewards 10 years of experience with real autonomy.

You will own data flow, schema evolution, and performance tuning across high-scale systems. Demonstrated Next.js capability and leadership are essential for guiding junior engineers and delivering reliable software.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technology or software engineering.
• Strong understanding of data flows, schemas, and backward compatibility.
• Experience delivering high-scale systems with robust testing.

Responsibilities

• Keep Networking schemas backward-compatible to avoid breaking upgrades.
• Map data flow across Kafka services and identify leaks.
• Enhance test automation frameworks to boost release confidence.
• Automate manual Agile workflows to improve Athens, GA engineering efficiency.
• Mentor the principal cohort through Kafka on-call activities.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.

Skills

Kafka expertise

Next.js

Mentoring/leadership

Performance debugging

Remote collaboration

Documentation reading

Tools

Kafka

Next.js

Job description

Power Plus Group is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design, build, and ship software serving millions of users daily. The role offers remote flexibility with a base in Athens, GA and rewards 10 years of experience with real autonomy.

You will own data flow, schema evolution, and performance tuning across high-scale systems. Demonstrated Next.js capability and leadership are essential for guiding junior engineers and delivering reliable software.