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Job Summary:
Fullbay is a leader in the heavy-duty repair industry, dedicated to creating safer roads through innovative technology. The Principal Software Engineer will drive innovation and establish best practices for Fullbay's SaaS platform, leading complex projects and mentoring engineers to enhance organizational capabilities.
Responsibilities:
• Technical Leadership & Innovation
• Design and implement complex, high-impact features that significantly increase business value and advance Fullbay's capabilities
• Drive architectural decisions that simplify implementations, improve performance, and establish patterns for the entire engineering organization
• Investigate and evaluate new technologies, establish the technical platform, and define the stack
• Quickly prototype solutions and deliver proof-of-concepts that turn speculative ideas into concrete implementations
• Own production excellence—proactively identify issues, establish monitoring standards, and drive performance, scale, and availability goals
• Cross-Organizational Impact
• Work with principal engineers as a unified team to coordinate on technical initiatives spanning multiple domains
• Establish and promote best practices for software development, including coding standards, system design patterns, and integration approaches
• Lead Architecture Decision Record (ADR) processes and ensure alignment on technical standards
• Serve as technical advisor to senior leadership—communicate development goals, progress, and strategic direction
• Collaborate with the dev lead to define entry/exit criteria for how Product, QA, and Development teams work together, including checkpoints and release cadence
• Mentorship & Team Development
• Train engineers across the organization on modern programming practices, platform capabilities, and effective use of tools
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and formal training
• Establish code review standards, branching strategies, and software development methodologies
• Serve as the "go-to" expert for complex technical challenges across multiple teams
• Build trust and rapport with fellow principal engineers to amplify collective impact
• Platform & Process Excellence
• Work with the Internal Developer Platform to improve developer experience and productivity
• Establish metrics and standards for performance, scale, and availability
• Evaluate and integrate third-party technologies to enhance the Fullbay stack
• Define processes and frameworks for how engineering work happens across the organization
• Contribute to FinOps initiatives and AWS cost optimization strategies
• Work with 3d party applications and companies to add to our Fullbay stack for best results
• Adheres to all confidentiality and compliance regulations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10-15 years of experience in software design and development
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Proven ability to design and implement scalable, distributed systems
• Strong communication skills with ability to influence technical decisions across the organization
• Experience working collaboratively with Product Management and QA teams
• Modern Software Design and Coding methodologies
• Development and Design best practices based on experience and knowledge of
• Work with modern industry 3rd party technologies and ability to compare and contrast and help make great buying decisions (or build decisions)
• Knowledge and experience with Product Management and Test methodologies
• Create the process and frameworks for how development will happen in Engineering
• Ability to form-factor messages and communication to Leadership vs peers vs software engineers
• Knowledge and experience with improving Performance, Scale and Availability of software and modern capabilities like processor, caching and backend accelerators of performance
Company:
Fullbay offers fleet maintenance and management software to automate the operations of heavy-duty repair shops. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Phoenix, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.