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We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer - Backend to join Procore’s Product & Technology Team. Procore software solutions aim to improve the lives of everyone in construction and the people within Product & Technology are the driving force behind our innovative, top-rated global platform. We’re a customer-centric group that encompasses engineering, product, product design and data, security and business systems.

In this Principal Software Engineer role, you will be primarily responsible for establishing the technical direction, creating reference patterns, and driving the effective execution of that strategy for Quality, Safety, and Media, one of Procore’s core product areas. You’ll partner with Engineering, Product Management, Design, and Architects to lead development of software that helps improve quality and safety and media on the jobsite. You’ll utilize your deep experience in web, UI/UX, and Micro Frontend development to build highly effective systems and practices, foster collaborative relationships, and measure value delivered to our customers.

This position will report to a Senior Engineering Manager and will be based in our Cairo, Egypt office. We’re looking for someone to join our team immediately.

What you’ll do:

• Plan and implement scalable user interface systems that delight users for very complex construction workflows

• Lead code reviews and documentation, and take ownership of complex bug fixes and architectural improvements

• Drive the success of projects, from the technical design, implementation, and launch to operation while mentoring other engineers

• Hands-on development and architecture of systems that meet the test of time for a variety of web modalities

• Build awareness, increase knowledge, and drive adoption of modern technologies, industry innovations, trends, and architecture patterns, while sharing customer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in

• Collaborate with leaders across engineering, product management, UX and business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and align technology solutions to business goals

• Establishing and maintaining our overall technology strategy which supports and enables our multi-year corporate and product strategies, and which embodies our P&T and Engineering Principles

What we’re looking for:

• Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or comparable work experience

• 12+ years experience in Software Engineering, Test Driven Development, and Design principles for web and full stack applications at scale with distributed architectures

• 8+ years experience working on backed modern applications and frameworks (Java, Ruby on Rails, Nest.js) and extensive understanding of Frontend framework's best practices (React, Typescript)

• 8+ years experience in Object-Oriented Program fundamentals, Test Driven Development, and Design principles.

• Time-honed expertise with medium-to-large scope modern web development projects across the entire spectrum of development, testing, staging, deploying, and monitoring

• Ability to effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization, and promote a culture of engineering excellence, while being comfortable with the overall responsibility and accountability to create and maintain technical strategies and execution plans