Principal Software Engineer

eDynamic Learning is a company dedicated to empowering educators with accessible resources for student development, particularly in Career and Technical Education (CTE). They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership across multiple teams, focusing on improving engineering effectiveness and ensuring technical excellence throughout the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across multiple teams, focusing on high-impact initiatives and critical path work
• Unblock complex technical challenges that span systems, teams, or domains
• Lead and contribute to architecture and system design decisions, ensuring scalability, simplicity, and long-term maintainability
• Conduct deep code reviews and set a high bar for engineering quality, performance, and reliability
• Identify and prevent overengineering, promoting pragmatic and efficient solutions
• Drive technical consistency and best practices across teams (design patterns, standards, tooling)
• Partner with the Engineering Manager and Tech Leads to support delivery without taking on people management responsibilities
• Contribute directly to code when needed, especially in high-risk or high-priority areas
• Mentor and guide senior engineers and technical leads through coaching, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
• Improve overall engineering effectiveness, including development workflows, system reliability, and scalability

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack applications
• Proven experience operating at a staff or principal level, influencing multiple teams or large systems
• Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript, with broader experience in several languages and programming paradigms
• Strong experience with React and modern front-end architectures
• Strong background in system design, distributed systems, and API architecture
• Experience working on complex, production-grade, high-scale systems
• Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems
• Experience driving technical strategy, standards, and architecture across teams
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing strategies, and DevOps practices
• Familiarity with AWS, Docker, Linux, and cloud-native architectures
• Proficiency with SQL and relational database design
• Legally eligible to work in Canada and/or the U.S