Principal Software Engineer, LegalZoom

• This is a role for a creative individual who wants to help shape the future direction of our LegalZoom offerings and who has strong engineering chops, opinions on what "good" product and design flows look like, is comfortable with ambiguity, and enjoys collaborating within a team environment
• You have 8+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role
• You want to deeply understand your customers so that you can create experiences for them that they love
• You write code that is elegant, efficient and well-tested
• You are always curious and eager to learn new things and to improve your skills
• You have experience working in back-end systems using languages like Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot
• Familiarity with REST or GraphQL
• Strong database experience, including with experience with SQL
• You can work independently and deliver high-quality code, but you also know when to ask for help when you need it
• You communicate and collaborate well with other teams and stakeholders
• You enjoy mentoring others and want to help create an environment where early-career engineers can grow and thrive
• You are able to travel occasionally for team offsites and conferences

Desirable

• The Engineering team at LegalZoom builds user interfaces, features, applications, and tools for our customers
• We’re in an exciting period of growth and seeking talented developers who share our vision for helping fuel the success of small businesses
• You’ll help by progressing the LegalZoom experience and you’ll also inspire and elevate the team by producing work that is always raising the bar and taking a customer-obsessed approach to solving problems
• Help define and steer a fast-growing new business at LegalZoom
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to design, build and maintain customer-facing products and interfaces
• Design and improve our platform and components to help engineering teams across LegalZoom build amazing applications
• Debug production issues and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Join a dream team of amazing engineers to drive innovation within the organization and to champion product excellence