Principal Software Engineer

Description

Your Impact

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer who will play a critical role in unifying teams, systems, and engineering practices across multiple acquisitions. This is a high-impact, cross-organizational technical leadership role responsible for guiding architectural integration, aligning engineering cultures, and accelerating innovation across our SaaS product ecosystem. 

You will partner with engineering leaders, architects, and product teams to drive cohesion both technically and culturally. This is a role for a hands-on technical leader who excels at influence without authority, thrives in ambiguity, and brings clarity, empathy, and strong engineering judgment. 

About CivicPlus

At CivicPlus, we strive to bring our company vision to life through innovation and collaboration. Supported by approachable leadership and transparent communication, we're empowered to make an impact on local government and the residents they serve. Grow your career alongside great people, where authenticity is welcome, successes are celebrated, and potential is nurtured.

What You’ll Do

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will:

• Technical Integration & Platform Strategy: Lead technical evaluation and integration across acquired engineering teams, establishing shared architecture, standards, and platforms while navigating legacy constraints toward a unified SaaS vision.
• Engineering Culture & Technical Leadership: Foster a collaborative, high-trust engineering culture by defining shared practices, mentoring engineers, and enabling cross-team alignment through forums and working groups.
• SaaS, Cloud & AI Architecture: Provide architectural leadership for scalable, reliable SaaS systems across multi-cloud environments, and guide the responsible integration of AI into products, services, and internal tooling.
• Developer Experience & Delivery Excellence: Drive modernization of CI/CD, observability, and release practices to improve developer productivity, quality, and speed across teams.
• Hands-On Technical Strategy: Act as a technical multiplier through architectural reviews, prototyping, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring acquisitions strengthen and simplify the overall platform.

What We’re Looking For

We know that excellent candidates come from diverse backgrounds. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the listed requirements, we encourage you to apply!

Preferred Qualifications:  

• 10+ years of experience as a senior or principal engineer working on large-scale SaaS products.
• Significant prior experience supporting or leading technical integration during acquisitions.
• Deep expertise in multi-cloud architectures (AWS & Azure) and distributed systems design.
• Strong experience developing and integrating AI technologies into production systems and/or products.
• A career-long track record of CI/CD ownership, build systems modernization, and DevOps-oriented development practices.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills, ability to align diverse teams and build trust across organizations.
• A reputation for elevating engineering culture: curiosity, experimentation, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to operate autonomously, drive clarity in ambiguous environments, and influence leaders at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to balance short-term pragmatism with long-term architectural vision.

Physical requirements:

• Able to work additional hours during the week after hours and on the weekend with 24-7 on-call status 
• Able to travel frequently and efficiently across a large geographic territory, with little down-time between periods of travel 

Why CivicPlus?

This role offers:

• Shape the Future of a Growing SaaS Platform: You’ll have a direct hand in turning multiple acquisitions into a cohesive, scalable platform—making architectural decisions that meaningfully impact how our products evolve for years to come.
• Lead Through Influence: This role sits at the center of engineering, product, and platform teams. You’ll guide teams through complexity, align diverse perspectives, and drive outcomes through trust, clarity, and strong technical judgment.
• Work at the Intersection of Cloud, AI, and Modern Engineering: From multi-cloud SaaS architecture to real-world AI integration and developer productivity, you’ll tackle technically rich problems that are both challenging and highly relevant.
• Make a Lasting Cultural Impact: Beyond systems and code, you’ll help unify engineering cultures—mentoring leaders, raising the bar on craftsmanship, and creating shared ways of working that empower teams to do their best work.

Compensation and Benefits

• Estimated Salary Grade Range: $ 145,000 - $225,000
• The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and is based on a 40-hour work week.
• Benefits: Comprehensive health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, Flexible Time Off, 401(k) plan, and more.

Our Hiring Process

• Introductory call with Talent Acquisition
• Interview with the Hiring Manager
• Panel Interview with CivicPlus team members, including an technical coding assignment
• Offer

Note: The process may vary slightly depending on the role.  

Additional Information

• CivicPlus is currently unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US.
• This position will remain open until Feb 13, 2026 We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the posting may close earlier at the discretion of the Talent Acquisition team

Equal Opportunity Commitment

• CivicPlus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We celebrate and support diversity for the benefit of our employees, products, clients, and communities. Reasonable accommodations are available during the interview process.