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We serve more than 95,000 customers as a trusted partner in digital transformation and enablement - advancing missions, driving efficiencies, and building engaged communities for more than four decades. The diverse and real-world experiences of our team members serving their communities makes us stronger together and enhances our ability to advance digital transformation for the greater good.\nMinistry Brands is committed to acknowledging and valuing our employee differences and to creating an environment in which every individual’s unique strengths and abilities are developed and valued. Our employees share in the responsibility for creating this environment and demonstrate mutual respect and acceptance in the workplace. We welcome everyone and are dedicated to creating a culture where all our employees have equal opportunity to be heard and reach their full potential.\nAvailable Location: Milton, GA\nHybrid Working: Team members are expected to come into the Alpharetta office as needed, based on business requirements and team collaboration needs. There is no fixed minimum number of in-office days; instead, attendance will be determined by project demands, meetings, and manager guidance. Any changes to your primary work location should follow the appropriate process as outlined in our handbook.\nWhat You'll Do:\nAs aPrincipal Software Engineer, you will serve as one of the organization's most senior technical leaders, responsible for defining the long-term technical vision and architecture of our background screening platform. You will drive engineering excellence across multiple teams, influence product strategy through technology, and ensure our software solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable.\nYou will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering Leadership, Security, Architecture, and DevOps to solve complex business problems while mentoring engineers and establishing engineering best practices.\nThis role combines deep hands-on software engineering with technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and cross-functional influence.\nKey Responsibilities:\nTechnical Leadership\nDefine and drive the technical vision, architecture, and engineering standards across multiple applications and services.\n\nLead the design of scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions using modern PHP/LAMP technologies and AWS.\n\nMake architectural decisions that improve performance, reliability, maintainability, scalability, and security.\n\nEvaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies that improve engineering effectiveness and business outcomes.\n\nServe as the highest level technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges.\n\nDrive technical roadmaps that align engineering investments with business objectives.\n\nSoftware Engineering\nDesign, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade applications using PHP, modern PHP frameworks, Linux, Apache/Nginx, MySQL, JavaScript, and related web technologies.\n\nLead modernization initiatives including application refactoring, cloud migration, monolith decomposition, framework upgrades, and technical debt reduction.\n\nDevelop highly available cloud applications utilizing AWS services including EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, ElastiCache, SQS, SNS, CloudFront, and related AWS technologies.\n\nOptimize database performance through schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, caching, and database architecture.\n\nDevelop highly testable, maintainable, and reusable software components.\n\nEnsure software solutions meet performance, reliability, compliance, and security requirements.\n\nEngineering Excellence\nChampion engineering best practices including clean architecture, SOLID principles, Domain-Driven Design, API-first development, and secure coding standards.\n\nEstablish and improve development standards, coding guidelines, testing strategies, and deployment processes.\n\nLead architecture reviews, code reviews, design reviews, and technical planning sessions.\n\nDrive improvements in automated testing, observability, monitoring, and application performance.\n\nGuide CI/CD strategy utilizing modern CI/CD platforms and Git-based development workflows.\n\nContinuously improve build and release pipelines to increase deployment reliability and speed.\n\nPromote Infrastructure as Code and automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using technologies such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.\n\nCross-Functional Leadership\nPartner with Product Management to translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.\n\nCollaborate with Engineering Managers to prioritize technical investments and platform improvements.\n\nInfluence technical decisions across multiple engineering teams.\n\nCommunicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nBalance short-term delivery with long-term architectural sustainability.\n\nMentorship & Talent Development\nMentor senior, mid-level, and junior engineers through coaching, code reviews, pair programming, and architecture guidance.\n\nFoster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, ownership, and continuous learning.\n\nHelp establish career development paths and technical competency standards.\n\nLead technical knowledge sharing through presentations, documentation, and architecture discussions.\n\nOperational Excellence\nLead incident response and root cause analysis for critical production issues.\n\nImprove platform observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness.\n\nEnsure applications meet reliability, scalability, security, and availability goals.\n\nPromote automation across development, deployment, testing, and infrastructure.\n\nWho You Are:\nPassionate about software engineering and building technology that supports purpose-driven organizations.\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\n10+ years of professional software engineering experience.\n\n5+ years designing enterprise-scale distributed systems and cloud-native applications.\n\nAbility to use flowcharts, sequence diagrams, architecture diagrams, and other documentation tools.\n\nDemonstrated experience serving as a technical lead, staff engineer, principal engineer, or software architect.\n\nExpert-level proficiency with:\nPHP\n\nModern PHP frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony\n\nLinux\n\nApache and/or Nginx\n\nMySQL / Amazon Aurora MySQL\n\nHTML, CSS, and JavaScript\n\nRESTful APIs and web services\n\nExtensive experience designing cloud-native applications in AWS.\n\nDeep expertise with AWS services including EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, ElastiCache, SQS, SNS, CloudFront, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and related AWS services.\n\nStrong experience with containerized application development and deployment using Docker and AWS ECS/EKS or similar technologies.\n\nStrong experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.\n\nAdvanced knowledge of Git workflows and version control strategies.\n\nExperience designing RESTful APIs, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems.\n\nStrong understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, IAM, encryption, secrets management, and secure coding practices.\n\nExperience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems.\n\nExpertise with automated testing including unit, integration, API, and end-to-end testing.\n\nStrong understanding of software design patterns and architectural principles.\n\nExperience with caching, asynchronous processing, queues, and event-driven architectures.\n\nExceptional communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.\n\nProven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.\n\nDesired Skills:\nProfessional experience using development environments and tools such as VS Code, PHPStorm, and command-line Linux development tools.\n\nExperience administering, troubleshooting, and optimizing Linux-based web application environments.\n\nExperience with Laravel, Symfony, or similar modern PHP frameworks.\n\nExperience with AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.\n\nExperience with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.\n\nExperience with Redis/ElastiCache, message queues, and asynchronous processing.\n\nExperience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.\n\nExperience with observability and application performance monitoring using CloudWatch and related monitoring platforms.\n\nExcellent verbal and written communication, organization, and follow-up skills.\n\nOffice 365 experience | Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.\n\nStrong relationship-building skills.\n\nAbility to work both individually and as a team member.\n\nAbility to work effectively and accurately within a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.\n\nStrong coaching and communication skills.\n\nExperience in the Fintech industry is a plus.\n\nStrong communication and interpersonal skills.\n\nExperience in SaaS or technology industry, preferred.\n\nPhysical Considerations:\nAbility to work efficiently and be productive in a remote work environment\n\nAbility to handle extended periods of computer-based work, and collaborate with team via Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other meeting technologies\n\nTravel Considerations:\nDomestic and/or international travel required, estimated up to 5%\n\nBenefit offerings designed to promote a life of balance! \nAt Ministry Brands, we recognize that your career is just one important piece of your dynamic life. We offer a robust range of benefit offerings designed to cultivate a lifestyle of balance and personal success. \nRobust healthcare options - Employees have several healthcare options to choose from in order to find what works best for them.\nFlexible paid time off - There is no perfect, one size fits all balance between work and home. We provide flexible work schedules, PTO for vacation, and up to 80 hours of paid sick/safe leave. We also feature 11.5 days of fully paid holidays!\nInvest in your future - Ministry Brands matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, dollar-for-dollar, up to 3%. Contribute 3%, and we add another 3%. It's well-earned money working toward your retirement from day one.\nPaid parental leave - Adding a new child to the family is a big adjustment! We provide the time and income to allow parents to adjust to their new normal in the healthiest way possible.\nMental health support - Ministry Brands is a stigma free company with the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Associates are supported through an Employee Assistance Program which provides access to in-person or virtual counseling at no cost.\nProfessional development reimbursement - Ministry Brands aims to support your professional development and empower you to drive your career by providing financial assistance to our associates seeking to further their education and career.\nEmployee Recognition & Rewards - At Ministry Brands, we use Nectar to celebrate achievements and strengthen our culture of recognition. This social platform empowers employees to send meaningful kudos, award points redeemable for rewards, and highlight contributions that exemplify our values. 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