Principal Engineer, Core Product (Hybrid)

Required

• Track record of defining and executing technical strategy across multiple product domains or teams — not just within one team
• Passion for mentoring engineers and guiding teams through architectural change.
• Deep expertise in domain-driven design, API design, SOA and event-driven architectures
• Experience with payroll, workforce management, or similarly complex business domains is a strong plus
• Proven ability to influence without authority — you drive alignment through clarity of thought and collaboration
• Strong communication skills: you can explain complex technical decisions to engineers, PMs, and executives alike
• Active, high-leverage AI fluency — you use AI tools daily to improve your outcomes as an engineer and have helped teams adopt AI to create leverage, not slop.
• Comfort operating in a high-velocity environment where shipping fast and iterating matters
• 🤖 AI Fluency - At the Principal level, we expect you to:
• Champion AI adoption across teams you influence — continually identifying where AI creates real leverage vs. noise
• Measure and share the impact of AI-enabled improvements on velocity, quality, or developer experience
• As a key member in Engineering Leadership, contribute to AI platform efforts that will enable Homebase to deliver outsized customer benefit through faster product development and higher quality features