Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid - 1-2 days per week onsite)

Overview:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will help shape the vision and architecture of Weedmaps’s next generation backend infrastructure, making it easy for developers to build products and features. You will influence the technical direction as we build the world’s best cannabis enterprise marketplace and a robust portfolio of enterprise products to help enable our clients and the cannabis industry as a whole to flourish. The explosive growth of the cannabis industry as well as the almost completely differentiated legal requirements in each legal jurisdiction require that our software solve for increasingly complex problems.

Our products range from wholesale marketplace to delivery fleet management and reporting. Additionally, as we expand our platform to provide end-to-end SaaS solutions for the cannabis supply chain, it will be increasingly necessary to unify the framework and architecture on which the platform operates so that each product works seamlessly with one another. You'll be responsible for ensuring that we are building a scalable, reliable, secure and highly performant technology stack using best practices for delivering our products to market. You will ensure our architecture is flexible to allow for our growth into new and existing business lines.

This is a strategic technical role that requires strong partnership with other functions across the company. You'll partner with other senior engineers and leaders across the company to translate technology capabilities into strategic business decisions. You'll drive accountability and metrics ownership to translate strategy into results. And you'll align and inspire your organization by effectively communicating the strategy and driving the team to build a world class marketplace in the cannabis space.

The impact you'll make:

Provide technical direction for the overarching Weedmap’s technology stack leveraging Service Oriented Architecture patterns using server side Javascript such as Node.js or similar runtime environment
Develop architectures that are secure, scalable, robust, modular, API-centric, and follow the principle of least astonishment
Build long term technical strategies that align with Weedmap’s business plan and influence the overall technical direction
Support the application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support). Follow established development, documentation, testing and deployment processes.
Partner closely with engineers and leaders across different disciplines and teams to gather information, listen to multiple viewpoints and come up with solutions to drive the technical direction forward.
Act as an ambassador for the organization at technology conferences and events
Communicate technical roadblocks and solutions with executive leadership
Mentor, educate and coach engineers across the technology organization
Act as a team player for building a culture of flawless execution

What you've accomplished:

12-15+ years of software development experience with 3+ years of SaaS architectural experience in high-growth engineering organizations
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree / work experience, including code camps or self-taught programmers
Experience in writing quality production code in server side Javascript, such as Node.js
Experience with frameworks that provide structure for Node.js such as Express.js, NestJS, and Adonis.js
Experience with exceptional architecture and clean coding practices
Effective and persuasive communication skills at all levels of management and engineers, both written and verbal
Able to collaborate on long-term architectural vision, and articulate and evangelize that vision in and out of the company
Experience working in an e-commerce space building applications and technology to engage consumers and foster growth
Exposure to integrations and design, cloud based technologies, and latest mobile architectures
Experience working collaboratively at a high level with other teams within an organization
Breadth of knowledge and passion spanning front-end and back-end technologies.

The base pay range for this position is $215,197.00 - $240,000.00 per year

2025 Benefits for Full Time, Regular Employees:

Physical Health benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision:

Employee - employer paid premium 100%
Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution

Mental Health benefits:

Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
Employee Training
Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions

Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
Supplemental, voluntary benefits

Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution
FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
Critical Illness Insurance
Accident Insurance
Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
Pet Insurance
Family planning/fertility
Identity theft protection
Legal access to a network of attorneys

Paid parental leave