Principal Software Engineer, Front-End

Principal Software Engineer, Front-End

Job Type: Full-timePay: $180,000–$225,000 base salary, depending on experienceLocation: Sandy, UT preferred; remote within the United States considered Description:

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with strong front-end experience, solid Python fundamentals, and the ability to lead both technically and operationally as our product and engineering needs grow.

As a Principal Software Engineer, Front-End, you will begin as a high-impact individual contributor while you learn our product, architecture, team, and development practices. In the first few months, your focus will be hands-on technical execution: shipping meaningful product improvements, understanding our front-end patterns, and building credibility across the engineering team.

As you ramp up, this role will expand into technical leadership and light management of a small group of outsourced front-end engineers, likely two to three developers. You will help guide front-end architecture, improve engineering quality, mentor developers, review work, and ensure our outsourced team is aligned with 401GO’s product and technical standards.

This role is ideal for someone who has already operated at a Staff or Principal level, enjoys staying close to the code, and has experience leading a small engineering team. What You’ll Be Doing:

• Serve as a Principal-level individual contributor on product and front-end engineering work.
• Lead front-end architecture decisions and help improve the quality, consistency, and maintainability of our user interfaces.
• Work across the stack when needed, especially with Python-based backend systems.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, operations, and engineering leadership.
• Review code, provide technical direction, and raise the bar for engineering quality.
• Help manage and guide a small team of outsourced front-end engineers after the initial ramp-up period.
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