Hybrid Principal Software Engineer, EV Charging

at The Mobility House

• Job title: Principal Software Engineer, EV Charging
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: CA$200,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Rust, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Montreal, Canada

About the role

• Technical leader driving engineering quality and mentoring engineers for EV charging products. Overseeing technical vision and ensuring timely, stable releases at The Mobility House.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive a coherent technical roadmap aligned with Product strategy; make build/buy/deprecate decisions to control complexity and cost-efficiency
• Own development velocity and quality: establish coding standards, testing strategy, CI/CD, and release practices with clear SLAs/SLOs
• Lead architecture/design reviews; de-risk initiatives through RFCs, spikes, and measurable milestones
• Write production-grade code (e.g., core services, performance fixes, developer tooling) ~30–50% of your time
• Mentor and level-up engineers in your function as a line manager for the tech team; institute feedback loops, pairing, and growth plans
• Champion observability, security, and reliability as well as compliance: logging/metrics/tracing, threat modeling, incident playbooks, postmortems
• Partner with Product on scope, sequencing, and trade-offs; ensure ticket quality and tight feedback cycles
• Improve data practices: schemas, migrations, performance, and privacy-by-design
• Support hiring, onboarding, and vendor/tool selection; manage engineering budget levers tied to throughput
• Participate in developer oversight, performance management, and discipline

Requirements

• 8+ years building production software, including 3+ in a technical leadership role (team/tech lead, staff/principal, or head of eng)
• You are a conflict mediator, a coach and a team player with experience in leading and growing teams
• Hands-on expertise with AWS, along with most of the TMH tech stack: Node.js, Typescript, Python, Rust
• Strong coding ability in at least two TMH languages, plus fluency with modern dev tooling (Git, CI/CD, containers, IaC)
• Proven track record shipping complex services at pace with high reliability (cloud-native, APIs, data pipelines, or similar)
• Deep experience with testing strategies (unit/integration/e2e), code review discipline, and continuous delivery
• Demonstrated architectural judgment and ability to pay down tech debt without stalling delivery
• Clear communicator who partners effectively with Product, Design, and GTM
• Resident of Quebec

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including $200k+ salary, bonuses and stock options
• 22 days PTO
• Health benefits
• Growth opportunity – exposure to cutting-edge projects, international partners, and senior leaders
• Team building – company-wide retreat 2x a year + annual team off-sites
• Open feedback culture – we want to grow as people and help each other do the same
• Learning opportunities – this is a burgeoning industry; you’ll gain new knowledge and skills every day
• Diversity – our small, multi-cultural team is passionate about The Mobility House’s mission