Principal Engineer

Job Description

This is a remote position.

***THIS POSITION IS ONLY FOR CANDIDATES BASED IN UNITED STATES ***

Who We Are:

At Advancio, we believe in building powerful technology with meaningful impact. As a trusted partner to high-performing businesses across the U.S., we help our clients scale smarter with top-tier talent and solutions. We’re fun, fast-moving, and laser-focused on quality—and we’re looking for someone like you to join our global team.

What You’ll Do

Own architecture decisions and select the stack for our core platform

Build core features for our MVP — everything from APIs to frontend integrations

Implement coding standards, version control workflows, and CI/CD pipelines

Collaborate closely with Product Manager on technical feasibility and sprint planning

Set up our development environments (local, staging, prod) and workflows

Partner with design to bring product specs to life with high attention to usability and performance

Review code, mentor future engineers, and foster a healthy engineering culture

Collaborate on sprint velocity, estimation, and delivery metrics

Help recruit, onboard, and grow a high-performing dev team as we scale

RequirementsWho You Are

5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, ideally full-stack

Proven track record of building and launching products from scratch

Strong in backend and systems design (Node.js, .NET, Python, or similar)

Solid experience with front-end frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue)

Familiar with DevOps tooling, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Deep understanding of Agile delivery, Git workflows, and modern development pipelines

Comfortable collaborating with PMs, designers, and clients/stakeholders

Bonus: Experience in SaaS, internal tools, developer platforms, or B2B products

Bonus: Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading pods/squads

What Success Looks Like

MVP launched and in users’ hands in 90 days

Engineering standards and environments fully established

Sprint delivery runs smoothly with high-quality code

Product–engineering collaboration is seamless

You’re coaching the next engineer(s) we hire, and loving it