Principal Software Engineer

15+ years of professional software development experience.

Proven experience designing, building, and delivering complex software systems.

Significant database design, performance, and development experience.

Experience leading technical direction across teams and influencing architecture beyond a single project or codebase.

Ability to select appropriate frameworks, architecture patterns, and technical approaches, then educate teams and drive adoption.

Ability to reason across the full product stack, including backend services, data stores, APIs, device integrations, and web/mobile user experiences.

Our total rewards package is designed to support you holistically—in your health, your finances, and your life outside of work. The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave. To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the emPower team, you will help design and evolve systems that coordinate physical devices, cloud services, mobile and web applications, automation engines, partner integrations, and data pipelines.

You will work across product, firmware, platform, operations, and application engineering teams to turn ambiguous business and technical needs into reliable, scalable, and maintainable software systems.

You will be expected to lead through technical depth, sound judgment, and influence.

You will own important architecture decisions, guide implementation strategy, and help engineers across multiple teams build better systems.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for systems spanning IoT device control, smart home automation, energy, HVAC, water, and connected-device experiences.

Lead architecture and design for major software components, services, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns.