We're urgently hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to join our growing LATAM-based remote team.
Help Us Build the Future of Outdoor Services
At LawnStarter, we're transforming the $100B+ outdoor home services industry—making it easier for homeowners to book, manage, and enjoy services like lawn care, landscaping, and more. With $30M+ in venture funding and solid traction, we're investing in the next generation of our platform—and we're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help drive it.
Why This Role Rocks
* Own What You Build - Lead projects end-to-end with full autonomy and real impact
* Remote & Flexible - Work from anywhere and set your own hours
* Build Meaningful Tech - Help shape the tools that thousands of homeowners and service pros rely on daily
* Join at the Right Time - We have strong product-market fit and real momentum—you'll help define what comes next
Our Tech Stack
* Languages & Frameworks: PHP (Laravel), JavaScript (React, React Native, Vue)
* Cloud Services: AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora, Redshift)
* Approach: We're not fixated on specific languages. If you have strong engineering fundamentals and experience with any mainstream object-oriented language, we believe you can quickly learn and adapt to our tech stack
What You'll Do
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll work closely with the Software Architect and other engineers to:
* Collaborate on designing and implementing system architecture, technical strategy, and engineering standards.
* Lead technical initiatives across teams, ensuring alignment with architectural direction and goals.
* Build and maintain platform-level components, services, and libraries that enhance engineering efficiency and system maintainability.
* Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and hands-on guidance.
* Contribute directly to both server-side and client-side development across the entire stack.
* Write and review technical design documents, system diagrams, and reference implementations.
* Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks, and best practices to continuously improve our platform.
* Enhance observability, performance, scalability, and security throughout our system.
* Share knowledge and insights to foster team growth and improvement.
Requirements
We're looking for someone who is:
* Experienced: A principal engineer, lead full-stack engineer, or someone with relevant experience in similar roles.
* Highly skilled in both server-side and client-side software development.
* Technically Proficient: Familiar with cloud development (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).
* Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD), RESTful APIs, React, MVC frameworks, and security concerns (e.g., XSS attacks).
* Fundamentally Strong in Computer Science Concepts: You can explain concepts like Big O notation, pointers, composition vs. inheritance, and data structures such as arrays, sets, and linked lists.
* Database-Savvy: Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases, and understand operations like CRUD, indexes, and joins.
* Cloud Infrastructure Expert: Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora) and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
* Customer-Centric: Passionate about clean code and building customer-driven solutions with a focus on quality and reliability
Benefits
* Perks of Working with Us
o Competitive contract rate
o Work from anywhere
o Flexible hours—get the work done on your schedule
o High ownership and autonomy
o Fast-moving team that loves to build, learn, and grow
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