Principal Software Engineer, LawnStarter
$130-180k
Lawn maintenance marketplace
Be an early applicant
Lawn maintenance marketplace
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-180k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make life easier and enable people to save their time for what really matters. They are setting out to make running a home services business dead simple.
Role
Who you are
- Languages & Frameworks: PHP (Laravel), JavaScript (React, React Native, Vue)
- Cloud Services: AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora, Redshift)
- Approach: We’re not fixated on specific languages. If you have strong engineering fundamentals and experience with any mainstream object-oriented language, we believe you can quickly learn and adapt to our tech stack
- A principal engineer, lead full-stack engineer, or someone with relevant experience in similar roles
- Highly skilled in both server-side and client-side software development
- Familiar with cloud development (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure)
- Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD), RESTful APIs, React, MVC frameworks, and security concerns (e.g., XSS attacks)
- You can explain concepts like Big O notation, pointers, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures such as arrays, sets, and linked lists
- Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases, and understand operations like CRUD, indexes, and joins
- Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora) and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
- Passionate about clean code and building customer-driven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability
What the job involves
- With $30M+ in venture funding and solid traction, we’re investing in the next generation of our platform—and we’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help drive it
- Own What You Build – Lead projects end-to-end with full autonomy and real impact
- Build Meaningful Tech – Help shape the tools that thousands of homeowners and service pros rely on daily
- Join at the Right Time – We have strong product-market fit and real momentum—you’ll help define what comes next
- As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll work closely with the Software Architect and other engineers to:
- Collaborate on designing and implementing system architecture, technical strategy, and engineering standards
- Lead technical initiatives across teams, ensuring alignment with architectural direction and goals
- Build and maintain platform-level components, services, and libraries that enhance engineering efficiency and system maintainability
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and hands-on guidance
- Contribute directly to both server-side and client-side development across the entire stack
- Write and review technical design documents, system diagrams, and reference implementations
- Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks, and best practices to continuously improve our platform
- Enhance observability, performance, scalability, and security throughout our system
- Share knowledge and insights to foster team growth and improvement
Our take
When it comes to lawn maintenance, many homeowners typically have to deal with several contractors. This can make lawn care more complicated and expensive than it needs to be. LawnStarter solves this problem by aggregating lawn mowing, fertilizing, and maintenance into one convenient purchase point.
As a marketplace, LawnStarter focuses on helping existing lawn care businesses grow, rather than trying to push their own services. This differentiates them from other providers. The company has seen impressive growth since it was first founded, and it now operates in 120 cities around the US. According to LawnStarter's CEO, the company's revenue has grown at a rate of 100% a year since its inception.
To date, LawnStarter has raised around $18 million in funding and surpassed $100 million in bookings, which is a testament to investors' and customers' confidence in the product. This confidence will be instrumental to LawnStarter's future success, as the lawn care market has grown increasingly competitive in recent years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2019
$10.5m
EARLY VC
Jun 2015
$6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $17.8m
Company benefits
- Flexible remote schedule
Company HQ
Financial District, Austin, TX
Leadership
Steve Corcoran
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded SigmaBits, and served as Co-CEO of SEED.
Ryan Farley
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Senior Business Analyst in Capital One's Card Partnerships Analytics team.
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