Principal Software Engineer

Ministry Brands

. Provide technical leadership for the Digital Engagement portfolio .

Posted 10/1/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLeadWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing scalable, secure, cloud-native applications using PHP, Laravel, and AWS services. Proven ability to lead engineering teams, mentor engineers, and drive technical excellence while influencing product strategy and architectural decisions.

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Technical LeadershipCloud-Native Application DevelopmentPHP/Laravel ExpertiseDistributed Systems DesignCI/CD and DevOps Best Practices

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Hard Skills

PHPLaravelMySQLAWSC#RESTful APIsDockerKubernetesHTMLJavaScript

Soft Skills

CommunicationCollaborationLeadershipOrganizationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

AWS ServicesAzure FunctionsCI/CD ToolsMicrosoft TeamsZoom

Industry Keywords

Nonprofit SaaSMulti-Tenant CMSVideo StreamingInfrastructure as CodeCloud Migration

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularASP.NETAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerEC2ElasticSearchJavaScriptKubernetesLinuxLaravelMySQLPHPReactSymfonyTerraformTypeScriptVue.js.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical leadership for the Digital Engagement portfolio
Implement scalable architectures and guide engineering teams delivering customer engagement, personalization, communications, and data-driven experiences
Drive engineering excellence across multiple teams and influence product strategy through technology
Ensure software solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable
Partner with Product Management, Engineering Leadership, Security, Architecture, and DevOps
Mentor engineers and establish engineering best practices
Define architectural decisions improving performance, reliability, maintainability, scalability, and security
Lead development of scalable, secure, cloud-native services across multiple products, stacks, and cloud providers
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies
Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges
Drive technical roadmaps aligned with business objectives
Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade applications primarily in PHP/Laravel and additionally C#/.NET
Lead application refactoring, cloud migration, monolith decomposition, framework upgrades, and technical debt reduction
Develop highly available cloud applications using AWS services and equivalent Azure and Google Cloud services
Optimize database performance through schema design, indexing, query optimization, caching, and database architecture
Develop highly testable, maintainable, and reusable software components
Lead adoption of AI agents across the engineering lifecycle
Champion clean architecture, Domain-Driven Design, spec-driven development, and secure coding standards
Establish development standards, coding guidelines, testing strategies, and deployment processes
Lead architecture, code, design, and technical planning reviews
Improve automated testing, observability, monitoring, and application performance
Own deployment practices using continuous small changes and feature flags
Partner with Product Management and Engineering Managers on technical solutions and investments
Influence technical decisions across multiple engineering teams
Communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Mentor engineers through coaching, code reviews, pair programming, and architecture guidance
Foster engineering excellence, innovation, ownership, and continuous learning
Help establish career development paths and technical competency standards
Lead technical knowledge sharing through presentations, documentation, and architecture discussions
Lead incident response and root cause analysis for critical production issues
Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness
Promote automation across development, deployment, testing, and infrastructure

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
10+ years of professional software engineering experience
5+ years designing enterprise-scale distributed systems and cloud-native applications
Experience serving as a technical lead, staff engineer, or principal engineer
Expert-level proficiency with PHP
Experience with modern PHP frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony
Expert-level proficiency with MySQL / Amazon Aurora MySQL
Expert-level proficiency with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Expert-level proficiency with RESTful APIs and web services
Proficiency in C# and modern .NET, including ASP.NET Core and Azure Functions
Deep experience in one major cloud provider and working comfort in another; AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud experience
Comfort with TypeScript and at least one of React, Vue, or Angular
Experience with containerized application development and deployment using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies
Experience with CI/CD, DevOps best practices, observability, application performance monitoring, and event-driven architectures
Experience designing RESTful APIs, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems
Experience with OAuth, SSO integration, API authentication, secrets management, and security best practices
Expertise with automated unit, integration, API, and end-to-end testing
Exceptional communication, collaboration, organization, and leadership skills
Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams
Ability to work efficiently in a remote work environment
Ability to handle extended computer-based work and collaborate via Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and other meeting technologies
Domestic and/or international travel required, estimated up to 5%
Desired: church technology, nonprofit SaaS, or multi-tenant CMS and website-builder products
Desired: AWS services including EC2, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, SQS, and CloudFront
Desired: video streaming and media pipelines, including AWS MediaLive, MediaPackage, HLS, and transcoding services
Desired: high-volume messaging and alerting through Twilio, SendGrid, or similar APIs
Desired: search platforms such as Solr, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Algolia
Desired: Linux-based web application administration and optimization
Desired: infrastructure as code, especially Terraform and Helm charts
Desired: Office 365, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Benefits

Comp & perks

Robust healthcare options
Flexible work schedules
Flexible paid time off (PTO)
Up to 80 hours of paid sick/safe leave
11.5 days of fully paid holidays
401(k) matching 100% of contributions up to 3%
Paid parental leave
Employee Assistance Program with free in-person or virtual counseling
Professional development reimbursement
Employee recognition and rewards through Nectar
Remote work environment