Principal Engineer, Core Product (Hybrid)
AI summary of the role
Principal Engineer leading technical vision and architecture across Homebase's core product domains (Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, HRM), serving 100K+ SMBs.
What you’ll do
- Drive technical vision and architecture across Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, and HRM domains
- Champion and deliver Homebase's API strategy for internal velocity and external integrations
- Lead decomposition of core product systems into well-bounded services using DDD and SOA
- Identify and resolve cross-cutting technical challenges (data consistency, performance, reliability)
What you’ll bring
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with depth in scaling distributed systems
- Strong background in Ruby/Rails
- Deep expertise in domain-driven design, API design, SOA, and event-driven architectures
- Proven ability to influence without authority and communicate with engineers, PMs, and executives
Technologies
Ruby · Rails · domain-driven design · SOA · event-driven architectures · API design · distributed systems · AI · code generation · test automation
About Homebase
All-in-one team management app for hourly small businesses — scheduling, time clocks, payroll, hiring, and messaging for local teams.
Series D · 200–500 people
Source and classification
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Hi, Future Homie! At Homebase, you’ll join a team that’s bold, fast-moving, and obsessed with helping small businesses thrive. We build with empathy, act with urgency, and take big swings that drive real-world impact. Here, every Homie shows up to raise the bar, support one another, and celebrate wins as a team. We’re not just building an app—we’re building unstoppable teams. So what do you say, are you in? 📍Your Impact Starts Here As Principal Engineer, Core Product, you'll be the senior technical leader across Homebase's most critical product domains: Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, HR Management (HRM). You’ll contribute to Homebase business goals by thinking 18+ months in the future to deliver technical capabilities that support a resilient, maintainable, scalable, and trustworthy product. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, ships with urgency, and elevates
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Hi, Future Homie! At Homebase, you’ll join a team that’s bold, fast-moving, and obsessed with helping small businesses thrive. We build with empathy, act with urgency, and take big swings that drive real-world impact. Here, every Homie shows up to raise the bar, support one another, and celebrate wins as a team. We’re not just building an app—we’re building unstoppable teams. So what do you say, are you in? 📍Your Impact Starts Here As Principal Engineer, Core Product, you'll be the senior technical leader across Homebase's most critical product domains: Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, HR Management (HRM). You’ll contribute to Homebase business goals by thinking 18+ months in the future to deliver technical capabilities that support a resilient, maintainable, scalable, and trustworthy product. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, ships with urgency, and elevates everyone around them. You'll work at the intersection of deep technical craft and business impact — partnering closely with product, data, design, and engineering leadership to shape what Homebase builds and how we build it. These are the key ways you’ll contribute and create impact in this role: Technical Leadership: In collaboration with our Technical Leadership group of Staff and Principal Engineers, drive Homebase’s technical vision and architecture across our Core Product domains such as Payr [... source excerpt omitted ...] A principles Technical Problem Solving: Identify and resolve cross-cutting technical challenges — data consistency, performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps — before they become customer problems Engineering Excellence: Support and champion the Engineering culture to scale Engineering Excellence in all teams. Drive standards and patterns that are adopted because they're good, not because they're mandated; mentor senior and staff engineers to raise the overall bar Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Product, Data, Design and Engineering leadership to shape roadmaps and ensure technical strategy aligns with business priorities AI-First Engineering: Experiment with and d [... source excerpt omitted ...] rovements on velocity, quality, or developer experience As a key member in Engineering Leadership, contribute to AI platform efforts that will enable Homebase to deliver outsized customer benefit through faster product development and higher quality features 🤝 The Homie Way - These principles guide everything we do—from how we work and make decisions to how we show up for each other. 💡 Be Customer Obsessed – Solve problems with empathy and creativity. ⚡ Move Fast, Learn Fast – Experiment, take action, and grow every day. 🎯 Own Your Impact – Think big, focus on what matters, and make decisions you stand behind. 🏆 Master Your Craft – Excellence fuels impact—show up, step up,
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