Principal Engineer / Architect

About the Role

Home Solutions is seeking a  Vice President / Principal Software Engineer and Architect to lead the vision, architecture, and hands-on development of the critical systems that power our fast-growing business. You will be a senior technical leader within the organization - defining architecture, building modern, scalable systems, guiding engineering excellence, and solving the highest impact technical problems in our stack. 

This is a highly impactful role at the intersection of back-end engineering, enterprise architecture, data systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven automation.

Your Day-to-Day

Architecture, Technical Strategy & Roadmap: Lead and define the architecture of our backend systems, ensuring they scale with the needs of the business.

• Architect and guide the build of marketing technologies, predictive systems, and intelligent decisioning engines supporting the home-services consumer journey.
• Own and evolve core backend systems, including:
• Lead Management Platform (intelligent routing, partner integrations, auctions)
• Ad Targeting & Conversion Upload Systems (real-time pipelines optimizing platform feedback loops)
• Oversee infrastructure, codebases, and data flows across lead management, conversion upload systems, and backend integrations.
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap creation across backend engineering and integrations. Collaborate with data engineering and front-end teams.
• Partner with business, product, and data leaders to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and scalability goals.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to evaluate new technologies, architecture patterns, and long-term platform investments.

Hands-On Principal Engineering Leadership: Demonstrate deep technical expertise by designing and building high-scale, high-reliability systems.

• Implement scalable services using modern languages and frameworks (e.g., Elixir Phoenix, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Build cloud-native systems leveraging modern DevOps and AWS practices: IaC, CI/CD, identity management, observability, cost-optimized service design.
• Integrate predictive models, decisioning frameworks, and real-time data pipelines into mission-critical workflows.
• Apply an AI-superuser mindset - using AI-driven tooling, automation, and workflows to accelerate engineering output and quality.
• Take ownership of complex problems and deliver high-impact solutions with speed, clarity, and craftsmanship.

Mentor, Develop, and Champion Excellence: Shape a culture of engineering excellence while growing and guiding a high-performing team.

• Mentor a team of software and data engineers, supporting their technical growth and delivery. 
• Establish and uphold best practices for testing, code quality, automation, security, and system reliability.
• Provide architectural guidance, conduct deep technical reviews, and support engineers in making strong, scalable design decisions. 
• Foster a mindset of high ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across the engineering team.
• Create clarity in technical decision-making and help maintain a fast-paced, accountable environment.

About You

• You are a senior technical leader with a continuous improvement mindset and a passion for architecting and building modern, scalable systems.
• 8+ years of engineering experience with increasing architectural and technical leadership responsibility.
• Significant experience designing and owning enterprise tech stacks for high-growth or complex digital businesses.
• Deep expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and modern API protocols.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure design in AWS.
• Programming expertise in languages such as Elixir, Python, PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong communicator able to partner effectively with Product, Data Science, and business stakeholders.
• Comfortable owning ambiguous, high-impact problems and driving them to completion.
• Proactive risk mitigation mindset with high urgency when critical issues arise.
• Motivated by autonomy, craftsmanship, and leveraging automation or AI to deliver better, faster outcomes.
• Nice to have:
  • Data Architecture and Engineering Experience.
  • Experience building or integrating modern data warehouses and pipelines (Postgres, Airflow, Fivetran).
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with PostgreSQL and high-volume transactional systems.

About Us

Launched Fall 2017, Home Solutions targets the rapidly digitizing home services vertical and  matches homeowners with the right service provider to meet their needs. Through our websites, Home Solutions has a proprietary audience of 47M+ homeowners and prime real estate in search engines. We are on a mission to make homeownership easier by creating high quality content that pairs consumers with providers in a range of related categories. 

Home Solutions was incubated within Three Ships, a growth equity firm that launches and invests in digital companies, builds great leadership teams, and helps them rapidly scale. The Three Ships portfolio currently includes several businesses - Home Solutions, Pillar 4, and Guardian Service.  

Why You Should Join Us

• Results: Home Solutions is the fastest-growing marketplace company in the home services category.
• Opportunity: Home services is a $600 billion market that largely still operates like it’s 1999.  During the next decade, we anticipate a huge digital transformation in the category, and marketplace companies will lead the way.
• Ownership & Impact: We seek talented people with the desire to own and run parts of the business that drive company performance. Leadership is fully aligned and incentivized around our growth-focused mission.
• Exposure & Learning: You will have a front-row seat in growing a business. Your teammates have built and sold companies, managed 100s of employees, and run campaigns with Fortune 500 brands. The opportunity to build new skills and learn from smart people is endless.
• Career Growth: There is no cap on growth, promotions, or the opportunity to own and put your stamp on important projects. Prove your value and you will be rewarded accordingly.
• Fun: The team has a high bar for excellence, but also a real interest in each other and making work fun

The Package

As a full-time employee of Home Solutions, you’ll have access to competitive benefits, including flexible time off,  health/dental/vision, 401k match, an annual Relax & Recharge Bonus, an annual Learning & Development stipend to enroll in class(es) of your choosing, and up to $75 mobile reimbursement. If you join us in person in our Raleigh or Charlotte locations, we have an office stocked with snacks, coffee, and just about every other beverage you can imagine.

EEOC Statement 

All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or any other discriminatory factors. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this role. All offers are subject to a background check.