Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

We're building folk to help people achieve their goals through lasting, valuable relationships. folk is the all-in-one CRM. Centralize all the relationships that matter for your organization and customize it to the adapted workflow: from Sales CRM, recruiting pipeline, deal flow management, prospection management, and more.

We're looking for Principal Software Engineers to bring our product vision to life by developing well-thought features that have thousands of users waiting for them. We are looking for someone who is at ease with async distributed architectures, can identify upcoming bottlenecks/required changes long before they happen and think about potential solutions in order to consolidate the tech vision. The job consists in:

• Contributing to projects (like the rest of the team)
• Identifying technical opportunities in the stack to support our growth
• Being a technical driver for the team

The job is not about management or mentoring, rather evangelizing and helping out other team members.

Please note we already have principal engineers in the team. By opening this position we want to welcome someone that can help us go even further with their own take.

We could be a great match if:

• You have experience with async distributed systems and have already worked on products where the write/read ratio is balanced.
• You have an architect track record and have actively designed complex architectures. You have been involved in complex multi-services, multi-technologies environments. You have foreseen changes to be made over several months to reach a new state.
• You believe preparing a great architecture is more valuable than going straight to implementation. There is nothing that you dislike more than rushing into the code. Instead, you plan and prepare by spending the required time allowing to identify the key areas and the main evolutions needed. The rest should be like playing along a score sheet of music.
• You're a great software developer and individual contributor building fast, reliable, real-time web-based applications. You want to work with skilled people who have a real focus on the customer experience, be it other developers or product and design people.
• You're looking to take ownership over a project from start to finish: understand the business logic, the requirements and ensuring delivery.
• You value quality and performance. You build a feature with the highest level of quality possible at the time and working with scaling or high load application is not something that scares you.

Our stack:

• Frontend: ReactJS, Typescript
• Backend: NodeJS, TypeScript, SQL, Redis, Kafka
• SaaS: Turbopuffer, Gitlab, Figma, Slack
• Hosting: AWS
• Monitoring: Datadog

If you want to know more about the daily life at folk, the following sections should interest you:

• Meet the team
• How do we work together?
• Tech team - What's the day-to-day?

Sounds like you? Then, we should probably meet.

Send us your application

What are we looking for?

• An overview of your background (either a resume or a Linkedin profile)
• A short note to tell us why we're a great fit for each other and how you envision your future @folk

We'll review your application and we'll get back to you within a week. No matter what our decision is you will hear from us.

Here are some tips for your application.

Here's our hiring process for this role:

1. Async step – Key Contributions Review: Before scheduling any calls, we invite you to share a few recent contributions that best reflect your impact, especially those related to long-term architecture, ownership, and scaling initiatives. This helps us ensure the first conversation is focused and relevant. We share as much documentation as we can about the role but it's also a time to ask questions, talk about dealbreakers and clarify the role to you.
2. A 1h30 video call with Jean-Yves - CTO to deep dive a little bit more into tech, to make sure you're interested in our stack and product, and to check the alignment with your skillset and approach.
3. A 45min video call with Morgane - Talent Manager to tell you a lot more about folk, our ambition, how operating approach and make sure our expectations are aligned.
4. 1h30 technical test, architecture and programming with Jean-Yves - CTO and one member of our engineering team: we use the test as a base for discussion to figure out how it feels working together and to cover architecture coding skills, architecture and exploration on a new topic.
5. A 30min video call with folk's cofounders. It's the perfect opportunity for you to ask anything about the company.
6. (opt) 30 min coffee with team members to get a feel of the work atmosphere

Regardless of the position, our interview process typically consists of 5 steps and takes approximately 2.5 weeks to complete.