At Homebase, you’ll join a team that’s bold, fast-moving, and obsessed with helping small businesses thrive. Here, every Homie shows up to raise the bar, support one another, and celebrate wins as a team. We’re not just building an app—we’re building unstoppable teams. Your Impact Starts HereAs Principal Engineer, Core Product, you'll be the senior technical leader across Homebase's most critical product domains: Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, HR Management (HRM). You’ll contribute to Homebase business goals by thinking 18+ months in the future to deliver technical capabilities that support a resilient, maintainable, scalable, and trustworthy product. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, ships with urgency, and elevates everyone around them. You'll work at the intersection of deep technical craft and business impact — partnering closely with product, data, design, and engineering leadership to shape what Homebase builds and how we build it. Technical Leadership: In collaboration with our Technical Leadership group of Staff and Principal Engineers, drive Homebase’s technical vision and architecture across our Core Product domains such as Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, and HRM — creating coherence across domains that today serve 100K+ SMBs Champion and help deliver Homebase's API strategy — building a platform that enables internal velocity, external integrations, and future partnership opportunities Technical Problem Solving: Identify and resolve cross-cutting technical challenges — data consistency, performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps — before they become customer problems Engineering Excellence: Support and champion the Engineering culture to scale Engineering Excellence in all teams.



mentor senior and staffengineers to raise the overall bar Partner with Product, Data, Design and Engineering leadership to shape roadmaps and ensure technical strategy aligns with business priorities AI-First Engineering: Experiment with and deploy/build harness capabilities to accelerate engineering workflows — from code generation to test automation — and coach teams on doing the same. Aligned with our belief that the best use of AI accelerates quality of the codebase and quality products as well as delivery velocity. The Foundation for Success 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in scaling distributed systems and evolving legacy architectures Ideal candidate brings a strong background in Ruby/Rails Track record of defining and executing technical strategy across multiple product domains or teams — not just within one team Passion for mentoring engineers and guiding teams through architectural change. Experience with payroll, workforce management, or similarly complex business domains is a strong plus Solid communication

skills:
you can explain complex technical decisions to engineers, PMs, and executives alike Active, high-leverage AI fluency — you use AI tools daily to improve your outcomes as an engineer and have helped teams adopt AI to create leverage, not slop. Comfort operating in a high-velocity environment where shipping fast and iterating matters AI Fluency
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we expect you to Champion AI adoption across teams you influence — continually identifying where AI creates real leverage vs. Measure and share the impact of AI-enabled improvements on velocity, quality, or developer experience As a key member in Engineering Leadership, contribute to AI platform efforts that will enable Homebase to deliver outsized customer benefit through faster product development and higher quality features Be Customer Obsessed – Solve problems with empathy and creativity. Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision coverage + FSA options Paid Time Off: Flexible PTO + company holidays + designated focus periods AI access, for real: That means you'll have access to paid AI tools with minimal restrictions, so you can build, experiment, and level up your craft. Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave (after 6 months of service) Protection Plans: Life insurance + short/long-term disability coverage Meals provided, commuter benefits, team offsites, and Customer Days That’s why Tuesdays and Wednesdays are our required in-office days—a time to move faster as a team, build deeper connections, make better decisions, and build together. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents Paid Time Off: Flexible PTO + company holidays + designated focus periods AI access, for real: That means you'll have access to paid AI tools with minimal restrictions, so you can build, experiment, and level up your craft. Maternity/Parental Leave EI top-up support offered (after 6 months of service) Protection Plans: Life insurance + short/long-term disability coverage Meals provided, team offsites, and Customer Days That’s why Tuesdays and Wednesdays are our required in-office days—a ti

📌 Principal Engineer, Core Product (Canada)
🏢 Homebase
📍 Canada