Principal Software Engineer, Platform
PermitFlow3 hours ago
Base Salary
$250k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of the codebase, including module boundaries, patterns, domain abstractions, refactors, and migrations.
- Design the monorepo structure, package ownership, build graph, and conventions for agent-assisted development.
- Build and operate shared platform services, infrastructure, and paved paths for data access, background jobs, environments, and observability.
- Define and evolve an agentic software development lifecycle covering coding, testing, reviewing, and production delivery.
- Build AI-assisted code review, test generation, and CI gates, determining where human review is required.
- Deploy background agents for scoped tickets, flaky-test triage, dependency upgrades, migrations, and incident-driven fixes.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including setting technical direction across multiple teams.
- Experience owning architecture for a large, multi-team codebase and leading organization-wide migrations.
- Experience with monorepo tooling such as Nx, Turborepo, Bazel, or similar.
- Strong platform and infrastructure expertise, including cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and production incident operations.
- Ability to work across the stack as a product engineer, from data models through user interfaces.
- Current hands-on experience with AI coding agents and knowledge of context engineering, agent instructions and skills, MCP, sandboxed execution, and coding-agent evaluation.
- Ability to influence through technical judgment, working code, and clear writing.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees, plus a healthcare FSA.
- 401(k) savings plan, unlimited PTO, and paid family leave.
- Home office and equipment stipend.
- Daily in-office lunch and dinner.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking.
- Hybrid schedule requiring three in-office days per week in New York City; NYC-based candidates or candidates open to relocation are preferred.
About PermitFlow
PermitFlow builds a SaaS platform that uses AI to manage construction permitting and other pre‑construction compliance for builders, contractors, and developers across the U.S. It centralizes permit applications, licensing, inspections, and closeouts, with software workflows and optional permit‑expediting services. The privately held company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, New York.