Principal Product Engineer

About the role

The YMCA of Snohomish County operates a best-in-class portfolio of digital products. As Principal Product Engineer, you lead the design and development of this technology, powering a Y that serves 1 in 6 people across Snohomish and Island counties. Set the technical direction, lead the Product Engineers around you, and own the quality, reliability, and impact of everything the team delivers. While remaining an active direct contributor, your primary focus is creating value for the organization through leadership of the team and what we deliver, with the ultimate goal of advancing the Y's core areas of work: Youth Development, Healthy Living, and Social Responsibility.

Essential Functions

• Mentorship & Supervision: Grow and support the people around you. Supervise and mentor Product Engineers, providing direction, feedback, and growth opportunities. Oversee and direct contracted engineering and technical advisor freelancers/agencies. Pair, review, and coach to lift the technical capability of the whole team. Serve as scrum master, helping to define and prioritize the backlog of bugs, features, and technical work in partnership with leadership.
• Technical Leadership & Direction: Set and own the technical direction for the Y’s software. Define architecture, standards, and design patterns across the Y's applications and services. Make and document key technical decisions, weighing trade-offs around maintainability, security, performance, and cost. Lead simultaneous development across multiple products and workstreams. Establish and uphold engineering practices in the areas of code review, testing, version control, and documentation. Anticipate technical risk and resolve ambiguity, translating product goals into a buildable plan.
• Full-Stack Development: Build and continuously improve the Y’s software, end to end. Design, build, and maintain applications across the front end, back end, and infrastructure. Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code, and review the code of others ensuring the same standard. Build and maintain integrations between internal applications and third-party systems. Deploy, monitor, and operate applications in the Y's cloud environment; investigate and resolve production issues.
• Product Design & Delivery: Help shape what we build. Partner with various teams to turn ideas into shipped products. Participate in workshops and design sprints to foster invention through collaboration. Validate that what we ship is correct, accessible, secure, and genuinely useful to staff and members.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional full-stack development experience, including but not limited to traditional software engineering roles, open-source contribution, startup work, or research projects.
• 2+ years leading/mentoring other technical staff.
• 3+ years of experience working with AWS.
• 3+ years of experience working with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) preferred.
• 2+ years of experience with Go and/or React preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency across the modern web stack, including front end, back end, and relational data, as well as comfort owning a feature from design through production.
• Experience designing and building applications and services that integrate with external systems.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and modern deployment and version-control practices.
• Strong personal computer skills and experience with standard business software.
• Strong interpersonal, public relations, and communication skills.
• Ability to exercise sensitivity in dealing with individuals of diverse socio-economic backgrounds, cognitive and physical abilities, and diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Y Culture

• Build relationships with a diverse membership base in culturally responsive ways, connect members with one another and to the YMCA.
• Exhibit Caring, Honesty, Respect and Responsibility.
• Complete required training and certifications within established guidelines.
• Embrace Multi-Team Leader Core Competencies.

Personal Growth

• Fosters a learning environment embracing diverse abilities and approaches.
• Creates a sense of urgency and positive tension to support change.
• Anticipates challenges that can sidetrack or derail growth and personal learning.
• Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills required to perform well; uses best practices and demonstrates up-to-date knowledge and skills in technology.

Physical and Mental Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Mental demands include using written and oral communication skills; reading and interpreting data, information and documents; analyzing and solving non-routine and complex problems; may use math and mathematical reasoning; observing and interpreting situations; learning and applying new information or skills; performing highly detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks; working under intensive deadlines with frequent interruptions; and interacting with members, staff, volunteers, and others encountered in the course of work, some of whom may be dissatisfied individuals.

Job Details

Base Pay: $95,000.00 - $115,000.00 / Year