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Job Description:
We are seeking a Principal, Software Development Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for Onehome, our consumer-facing real estate platform. This role will help evolve a high-volume application that supports millions of users and integrates property listing data across a large Multiple Listing Service ecosystem.
As a Principal Engineer, you will lead architecture and modernization initiatives across a Java-based, cloud-hosted platform while remaining closely connected to hands-on engineering. You will help simplify distributed systems, improve cloud-native architecture, and advance AI-native engineering practices that increase engineering productivity and accelerate software delivery.
What You'll Do
Lead architecture and modernization initiatives across complex, distributed software systems.
Design and evolve scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing applications and services.
Provide technical leadership for a Java and Spring Boot microservices environment running on Google Cloud Platform.
Evaluate service boundaries and architecture patterns to simplify systems, reduce operational overhead, and improve maintainability.
Drive cloud-native engineering improvements, including the evolution of applications toward Kubernetes-based deployment models.
Lead technical design reviews and influence engineering standards across the team.
Improve search and data architecture using technologies including Elasticsearch and Kafka.
Apply AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows to software development, testing, documentation, and engineering automation.
Mentor engineers and collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, Data, and Engineering partners.
Evaluate emerging technologies and engineering approaches that improve software quality, reliability, and development velocity.
Job Qualifications:
8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong hands-on Java and Spring Boot engineering experience.
Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale software solutions in production environments.
Deep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and modern design patterns.
Experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction across teams.
Experience with cloud platforms, DevOps, and modern software delivery practices.
Experience applying AI-powered development tools, automation, or AI-native engineering practices as part of the software development workflow.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions and influence engineering teams.
Preferred
Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes experience.
Elasticsearch experience, including cluster architecture, index design, reindexing strategies, and query optimization at scale.
Kafka experience, including event-driven architecture, partitioning, schema evolution, and consumer group design.
Angular experience.
PostgreSQL and…