Principal Software Engineer
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Let’s Tango! Where Innovation Meets Impact.
At Tango Analytics, we’re all about helping businesses make smarter decisions through powerful technology, insightful data, and a whole lot of collaboration. Whether you're a creative thinker, a strategic planner, a tech wizard, or a customer champion, there's a place for you on our team. We believe work should be meaningful and fun — so if you're ready to make a difference while enjoying the journey, come join us and let's Tango!
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our dynamic and growing Engineering team.
Key Responsibilities:
Own architecture across product and platform
- Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards.
- Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long-term simplicity, maintainability, and performance.
- Identify systemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross-team execution.
Introduce new technologies and best practices
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies responsibly pilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable.
- Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates.
- Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs.
Solve the hardest cross-team problems
- Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges.
- Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable.
- Help teams debug and resolve high-severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails.
Global cloud and regulated environment leadership
- Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi-region strategy, DR, availability, and operability).
- Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance.
Mentor and coach across the organization
- Mentor engineers across teams; coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment.
- Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post-incident reviews, and hands-on design workshops.
About You:
Technical breadth (multi-stack)
- Ten years of overall experience, with at least five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups
- Strong working knowledge across: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js).
- Ability to move between systems-level architecture and hands-on problem solving, deep where needed, broad by default.
- Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals.
Architecture leadership
- Proven success setting architectural direction across multiple teams and making durable technical decisions.
- Strong systems design skills: scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity.
- Ability to drive alignment, influence roadmaps, and lead through ambiguity with pragmatic tradeoffs.
Global cloud + FedRAMP experience
- Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale (multi-region deployments, DR/BCP, observability).
- Experience supporting FedRAMP/government cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments.
Mentorship and communication
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and influence across engineering, product, and leadership.
- Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers across teams, improving quality and raising the technic al bar.
Education:
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
- Master's degree preferred
Nice to Have
- Experience designing shared services (identity/auth, platform APIs) and driving adoption through developer experience improvements.
- Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and platform tooling that improves developer productivity.
- Experience leading large-scale modernization of legacy Java/J2EE systems.
- Experience in commercial real estate software
What We Offer
We’re committed to creating an environment where you can thrive—professionally and personally. Our offerings include:
- Competitive Compensation We recognize and reward your contributions with a salary package that reflects your value.
- Comprehensive Benefits Including health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, and generous paid time off to support your well-being.
- Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we support work arrangements that promote productivity and balance.
- Inclusive & Collaborative Culture We foster a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, teamwork is encouraged, and everyone has a voice.
Tango is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, parental status, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
Base pay offered is contingent on qualifications and other operational considerations. Base pay is just one piece of the full compensation structure offered at Tango. If this pay range is outside of your expectations, we still encourage you to apply and have a conversation with us.
Base pay offered for this position is: $200,000 - $240,000
*Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer.
*We cannot sponsor employment-based visas at this time.
