Principal Engineer

Our client is the first and largest peer-to-peer marketplace driven to change how the world views laundry.   Their customers tap the app and outsource their laundry. For them, it’s life without laundry, because it was hacked out of existence. They solve a second problem too, which is that more and more people of varying backgrounds want to work from home. Luckily most people have an underutilized washer/dryer, which when combined with their Laundry Pro app, provides the first-ever manual labor work-from-home gig in the world.

Perfect product market fit drove a 100x surge in users & revenue and double-digit MoM growth over the past few years. In 2021 they scaled to 500+ markets throughout the United States. In March 2022 they closed a $10m seed round which included VC investments from Headline, Origin Ventures, Starting Line VC, Ludlow Ventures, and Clean Ventures, as well as notable angel investments from some of Silicon Valley’s most successful founders. Rocket growth continued in 2022 and 2023.

The Role

As the Principal Engineer, you’ll be responsible for creating and driving the technical strategy for the user experience as well as the technical infrastructure. You will champion the technology selection and best practices in the app, web development, and backend. You will lead the way in bringing technical excellence and innovation to the codebase and infrastructure. You must love to code, and want to spend most of your time doing so.

Duties and responsibilities

• Drive technical excellence for the engineering team, with focus on technical quality and stability. 
• Work with your engineering counterparts to execute on product strategy and build world-class products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Final reviewer on PRs
• Contribute to code
• Execute on the product road map, including ensuring that customers are matched with high quality Laundry Pros, facilitating a seamless order flow for customers and Laundry Pros from web or app, enabling recurring orders, geo-based dynamic pricing, expansion to Canada, and more. 
• Achieve and maintain world-class product velocity. 
• Constantly review the technical infrastructure, propose improvements and additions, and execute on agreed upon initiatives. 
• Make architecture decisions for the team and effectively communicate them to your colleagues.
• Review designs and feature ideas from Product and determine and communicate scope and schedule. 

Requirements

• Ideally, the right candidate has demonstrated organizational-wide impacting experience building both iOS and Android consumer facing applications at scale. 
• Minimum of 10 years active coding experience. You are coding now and want to keep coding.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, driven, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• You love to build new things. You care about innovation. 
• Can code in a multitude of languages but is highly proficient with Typescript.
• Well versed in front end, backend, and DevOps technologies.
• Experience implementing and monitoring metrics for cloud services.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Self-motivated and a desire to work in a high velocity, async environment.

Tech Stack
Our tech stack is mostly TypeScript, allowing engineers to implement end-to-end functionality. On the frontend we use Angular/Ionic and on the backend Firebase.