Principal Engineer

Workstream is a mission-driven company building the all-in-one HR, payroll, and hiring platform for managing the hourly workforce. There are 2.7 billion hourly workers, making up 80% of the global workforce, but this market has been heavily underserved by technology and deserves better. Workstream has been purpose-built for the hourly workforce from day one so that these businesses and their employees can thrive.
Our customers include leading brands from multiple sectors, including Burger King, Carl's Jr./Hardee's, IHOP, KFC, and Culvers. We are a high growth series B company and quickly expanding our product portfolio to deliver on our vision. We are backed by legendary VCs and industry experts like Founders Fund, BOND, and Coatue.
Grow With Us
We are a team from UC Berkeley, Cornell, SJTU, Cambridge, NUS, with broad industry experiences from Tencent, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, and more. Our engineering team is composed of passionate, driven, and talented engineers who focus on building and innovating cloud technology solutions that empower local businesses to thrive and better serve the deskless workforce in their communities. We are seeking a talented Principal Engineer to join our growing engineering team.
Day in the Life:
As a Principal Engineer, you will work with your squad team members (local + remote) to ensure that implementations are consistent with the overall Engineering team strategy.
You will work closely with the Engineering Manager on communicating tasks, challenges, and workflows across a globally distributed team.
You will contribute to the design and architecting of cutting-edge tools and technologies while maintaining the existing stack.
You will guide team development efforts toward successful sprint delivery.
You will maintain high software quality standards within the team by establishing good habits and practices.
You will provide technical leadership to team members through mentoring and coaching.
Who You Are:
5+ years of industry experience as an individual contributor in full-stack web development
Advanced skills in JavaScript and Node JS or Ruby on Rails with 3+ years of experience with React or TypeScript.
Mobile and React Native experience is an asset.
2+ years of experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
5+ years of experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
Experience developing and maintaining microservice-based systems is a bonus.
2+ years of experience working in Agile software engineering methods and tools: Scrum, Jira, GitHub, DevOps, and software architectures that allow rapid iterations
Demonstrate an understanding of requirement management and roadmap development with product managers
Have a passion for effective collaboration within and between cross-functional teams, with a history of building influence with Product and Design
Familiarity with cloud technologies (AWS) and architectural patterns and their trade-offs
Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams across multiple timezones
Passionate to learn, understand, and dissect new technology stacks quickly on your own
Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and experience in information / cyber security, computer systems, IT, etc
Our tech stacks are:
Backend: Ruby on Rails (90%) / Nodejs
Frontend: React / Typescript
Database: PostgreSQL / MongoDB/ Redis
Infra: AWS / Terraform / Microservice / Protobuf / Kafka / Elasticsearch
What We Offer:
A mission-driven and value-based company dedicated to empower deskless workers and local businesses
An early employee opportunity at a Series B hyper-growth startup
Work with the founding team and industry veterans to accelerate your career
Competitive salary and equity
Comprehensive health coverage
In office amenities and stocked kitchen
Flexible PTO
Hybrid Office/WFH schedule
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