TRECQ

Principal Software Engineer (Backend)

EngineeringPrincipalremoteRemote
FullTimePosted May 12, 2025

About this role

We're an early-stage company building innovative software solutions with a commitment to shipping rock-solid, reliable, safe software. We’re searching for someone who loves writing code that helps protect customers and frustrates the adversary. You’ve written serious software in a careful way, and you love scalable systems built right with small teams. Read more about us and our mission here.

Responsibilities

  • Design, architect, and develop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way

  • Maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment

  • Work closely with company leadership to guide our entry into the market

  • Interact with potential customers and the community to help drive adoption

  • Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices

  • Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review and other cultural practices

  • Regularly demonstrate progress during our weekly internal demos

Top candidates for this role will have:  

  • Experience designing and shipping commercially available software products at scale that customers love

  • Experience building and shipping self-service B2B SaaS products at scale

  • Expert knowledge of at least one major systems programming language

  • Ability to learn Typescript or Rust

  • Experience shipping serverless software on AWS or distributed systems experience

  • Experience working at a fast-growing startup

  • Be comfortable working remotely, asynchronously, and independently

  • Strong time management habits and the ability to have a quiet working environment

  • Fluency in technology such as GitHub, AWS, Auth0, TypeScript, Rust, GitHub Copilot and Claude

  • At least 12 years of experience

  • Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization

Additional notes

  • As a remote first company, we are looking to hire anywhere in the United States.

  • We hire people authorized to work in the United States. We do not sponsor immigration visas.

  • Ability to travel for in-person company planning and events.

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