Principal Engineer

THIS POSITION WILL REPORT INTO OUR CHANDLER, AZ OFFICE 

Position Summary: As a Software Engineer at StrongMind, you will join a cross functional team using the latest development technologies and agile practices, to deliver solutions that democratize education, enabling educators to amplify their impact and students to control their learning experience.

Position Summary: 

As a Software Engineer at StrongMind, you will join a cross functional team using the latest development technologies and agile practices, to deliver solutions that democratize education, enabling educators to amplify their impact and students to control their learning experience.

Primary duties and responsibilities:

• Be an advocate for best practices and influence others to be advocates for best practices on their own teams.
• Increase awareness of the larger technical picture, helping teams to understand their blind spots and how they can effectively integrate into the technical ecosystem.
• Identify opportunities for shared solutions across teams and guide successful designs and implementations.
• Able to quickly form teams to address emergent needs, solving short-term needs and ensuring the solution has long term support.
• Help to define and measure KPI’s for products and teams, championing the understanding of success based on the measurable outcomes we strive to impact.
• Lead within the department, helping other engineers grow to become effective technical leaders in their teams and across the organization.
• Influence product strategy, helping to understand the desired outcomes, identify potential opportunities and problems from a technical perspective and how they impact Roadmap decisions.
• Advocate for outcomes over implementations helping teams to connect the business value they can provide in a full customer solution rather than in individual products.
• Stay tuned into what is working in the industry and bring effective technologies and practices to the department.

Specific Job Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrated long term capacity leading other technologists
• Ability to work and lead outside of your technological comfort zone
• Demonstrated ability to teach others how to build observability into their systems
• Experience designing cloud-based software solutions
• Demonstrated experience designing CI/CD systems
• Experience operating in a cross functional role
• Ability to work collaboratively with individuals at all levels of the organization
• Passion for delivering customer-oriented solutions
• Data driven decision making
• Ability to balance time and attention across multiple efforts
• Technological experiences in (data architecture in relational/document databases, REST APIs, Identity / OAuth systems, distributed implementations, event/messaging Systems, data pipelines, data warehousing, N-tiered architecture, event driven design, mobile consumer apps, cloud Implementations (Azure, AWS), SAAS, 3rd party integrations, C#, Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, JS/TS)

Company-wide skills, abilities and expectations:

• Communicate clearly and professionally in both written and verbal form
• Maintain a high level of customer service with both internal and external customers
• Maintain a professional code of conduct, including professional language, actions, and attire
• Maintain confidentiality of matters pertaining to clients and co-workers
• Acknowledge and accept direction from company leadership
• Demonstrate willingness and desire to work and collaborate with clients, co-workers, and the general public
• Prioritize work and handle multiple tasks while working independently
• Remain organized and plan effectively
• Work well under pressure, pay attention to detail, meet deadlines and deal with difficult situations while maintaining composure, professionalism, and a positive attitude.
• Examine data analytically, showing excellent reasoning and problem-solving skills as it relates to continuous improvement
• Commit to professional and personal growth
• Embrace a culturally diverse environment
• Adapt to change while conveying professionalism
• Meet quantitative and qualitative performance expectations and requirements
• Own up to the responsibility of the performance of the teams that report to you
• Display candor about one’s own opinions with the ability to commit to a final decision even when in disagreement

Education/Training:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Education, a related field, or equivalent experience
• 7 years Software development experience preferably in a full-stack capacity
• Exceptional communication skills
• Expert knowledge of agile best practices.
• Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries and with outside clients.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Development experience within the education industry is a plus.

Perks, Benefits & Culture You’ll Love:

Unplug for the Holidays

A fully paid holiday week off at Christmas—because rest isn’t a luxury, it’s essential.

Culture That Celebrates You

Champion spotlights, legendary milestone awards at 10, 15, and 20 years, and community service hours that let you give back with heart.

Open, Honest & Human

Quarterly Town Halls keep our communication transparent—and real.

Vibes & Good Times

Think team cookouts, fun treats, and social events that actually make you want to show up.

Solid Benefits, Real Support

Medical, dental, vision, Unlimited PTO, and voluntary benefits—we take care of the people who make the magic happen.

Your Voice Matters

We’re constantly evolving, and that includes how we support, celebrate, and invest in our people.

Additional Info:

We welcome all qualified candidates eligible to work in the United States. At this time, we are unable to sponsor visas.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide consideration to all applicants regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, veteran status, marital status, or disability protected by law.