Principal Software Engineer

Technology Mountain View, California Los Angeles, California


Description

About LegalZoom
LegalZoom has been providing accessible and affordable online legal services for over 20 years. Since 2001, we’ve helped millions of customers launch, run, and grow their businesses, secure their intellectual property, and protect their loved ones with estate planning documents.
As the industry leader in business formations, innovation remains at the center of all we do. LegalZoom employees are creative thinkers and problem-solvers who thrive on collaboration and embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion. Together, we’re working to make a positive impact on the world. 
​​
Where we work
In an effort to foster a better work-life balance, LegalZoom is committed to a remote-first work environment. Our Austin, Beaverton, Frisco, LA Metro, and SF Bay Area offices allow our Zoomers to collaborate with teammates and offer special onsite events, lunches, and more.
                            
This position will be in our SF Bay Area or LA Metro location 
Overview
  • Help build a modern E-Commerce platform that serves as the backbone for the entire company.  This role has a direct impact on the company’s bottom line and works directly with many teams across the organization to improve the way subscriptions, payments, product catalog, and checkout work. Learn about how Dunning, 3DS, and payment gateways work while  helping the team level up in terms of leveraging technical tools, design patterns, and cross-team communication.

 You will

  • Ability to lead (make proposals, produce faster turnarounds, take ownerships of initiatives they have defined)
  • Level up the entire team then produce on their own. I.e build a tool for the entire team to use vs working in silo 
  • Be someone that knows how to build and execute on awesome software (architecture, execution, and design).  
  • Collaborate cross functionally with Product, Design, and other business partners.
  • 60% coding / 40% (architecture, design, documentation, mentoring, scrum duties, meeting with partners).
You have
  • Solid software design and architecture.
  • Data structure and algorithms.
  • Kotlin or other JVM based language experience.  Spring Boot, TypeScript, React, NodeJS. 
  • Hibernate or other ORM experience.  PostgreSQL / understanding of relational databases.
  • Solid understanding of API / contract-driven development. 
  • Understanding of event driven architecture.
  • Breadth and depth. 
  • ReSTful APIs, GRPC, Kafka, domain driven design, Tailwind, CSS, Remix, NoSQL, Kubernetes, Kustomize, Istios, containers, AWS S3, Lambda, Aurora, and CDK are nice to have.
LegalZoom is a remote-first company and the national range for this role is ($138,000 - $276,000). Actual compensation offered will depend on several factors including but not limited to: geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, and/or other business and organizational needs. In addition, an annual bonus, incentive bonus and/or restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package. You will also receive a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits as seen below.                   
  • Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
  • 401k, With Matching Contributions
  • Paid Time Off
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Plus other wellness benefits to include:
  • Fertility 
  • Mental Health
  • One Medical
  • Fringe lifestyle benefits up to $250

 
Join us in making a difference as we build our future and help ensure access to professional legal advice to all! LegalZoom is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equality, and inclusion, and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.  LegalZoom prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Additionally, LegalZoom is enrolled in the E-Verify program. For additional information on E-Verify, please visit Participation and Right to Work pages.