Principal Software Engineer
Skimmer
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Jul 16, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on engineering lead role heading a small development team building a new product line for a SaaS platform serving the pool and spa service industry. Day-to-day work involves writing code, replatforming existing features toward AI-driven functionality, and mentoring engineers, with close collaboration across product, finance, and customer success. The role suits someone with prior player/coach experience at a SaaS startup, strong Node.js or C# skills, and familiarity with AI-assisted development tooling.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 13,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 8,200–20,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This is a player/coach engineering lead role — the candidate both manages a small development team and contributes code directly. It sits at the boundary between 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) and 15-1252 (Software Developers); 11-3021 was chosen because team leadership, mentoring, and driving a team's prioritized workload are explicitly primary responsibilities, but the hands-on coding requirement is substantial.
The JD runs 'NodeJS' and 'C#' together without a separator ('NodeJSC#') and similarly 'PostgreSQL' and 'Microsoft SQL' ('PostgreSQLMicrosoft SQL') — these appear to be formatting artifacts. Both pairs have been split into separate skills.
PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server are listed together as a single proficiency requirement; they are captured as one skill with the other as an alternative since the JD treats them as interchangeable options for the same requirement.
AI tools (preferably Claude) are described as 'a significant plus' and 'preferably' in the requirements section, indicating a strong preference rather than a hard gate — listed as preferred.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The role is open to hybrid employees in Austin, TX and Toronto, ON, as well as remote employees across a listed set of US states. Per caller instruction, treated as fully remote with no metro inferred. Note that Toronto is a non-US location; the role appears primarily US-based.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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