Principal Software Engineer

Role Summary

Let’s Tango ! Where Innovation Meets Impact.

At Tango Analytics, we’re all about helping businesses make smarter decisions through powerful technology, insightful data, and a whole lot of collaboration. Whether you're a creative thinker, a strategic planner, a tech wizard, or a customer champion, there's a place for you on our team. We believe work should be meaningful and fun — so if you're ready to make a difference while enjoying the journey, come join us and let's Tango !

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our dynamic and growing Engineering team.

Responsibilities

Own architecture across product and platform

• Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards.
• Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long-term simplicity, maintainability, and performance.
• Identify systemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross-team execution.

Introduce new technologies and best practices

• Evaluate and introduce new technologies responsibly pilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable.
• Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates.
• Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs.

Solve the hardest cross-team problems

• Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable.
• Help teams debug and resolve high-severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails.

Global cloud and regulated environment leadership

• Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi-region strategy, DR, availability, and operability).
• Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance.

Mentor and coach across the organization

• Mentor engineers across teams; coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment.
• Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post-incident reviews, and hands-on design workshops.

Requirements

About You

Technical breadth (multi-stack)

• Ten years of overall experience, with at least five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups
• Strong working knowledge across: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js).
• Ability to move between systems-level architecture and hands-on problem solving, deep where needed, broad by default.
• Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals.

Architecture leadership

• Proven success setting architectural direction across multiple teams and making durable technical decisions.
• Strong systems design skills: scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity.
• Ability to drive alignment, influence roadmaps, and lead through ambiguity with pragmatic tradeoffs.

Global cloud + FedRAMP experience

• Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale (multi-region deployments, DR/BCP, observability).
• Experience supporting FedRAMP/government cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments.

Mentorship and communication

• Strong written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and influence across engineering, product, and leadership.
• Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers across teams, improving quality and raising the technic al bar.

Education

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• Master's degree preferred

Nice to Have

• Experience designing shared services (identity/auth, platform APIs) and driving adoption through developer experience improvements.
• Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and platform tooling that improves developer productivity.
• Experience leading large-scale modernization of legacy Java/J2EE systems.
• Experience in commercial real estate software

Benefits

We’re committed to creating an environment where you can thrive—professionally and personally. Our offerings include:

• Competitive Compensation We recognize and reward your contributions with a salary package that reflects your value.
• Comprehensive Benefits Including health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, and generous paid time off to support your well-being.
• Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we support work arrangements that promote productivity and balance.
• Inclusive & Collaborative Culture We foster a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, teamwork is encouraged, and everyone has a voice.
• Tango is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, parental status, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
• Base pay offered is contingent on qualifications and other operational considerations. Base pay is just one piece of the full compensation structure offered at Tango . If this pay range is outside of your expectations, we still encourage you to apply and have a conversation with us.
• Base pay offered for this position is: $200,000 - $240,000
• *Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer.
• *We cannot sponsor employment-based visas at this time.

About the Company

With hundreds of customers across more than 140 countries, Tango is the leader in cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions use to manage the end-to-end real estate and facilities lifecycles. Tango ’s Store Lifecycle Management and Integrated Workplace Management System software, deliver a single solution spanning real estate, design & construction, lease administration & accounting, facilities maintenance, occupancy management, energy & sustainability, desk booking, visitor and space management.

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