Role: Principal Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote
Type: Full-time, Individual Contributor
Salary: $200k-$250k, Equity, Benefits

About the Boom
Boom is a privately held software company located in San Francisco. Our growing team builds AI-native software products for insurance carriers and banks. We have three guiding principles: deliver high quality products, provide great customer service, and work as a team.

About the Role
You'll own broad technical direction, work hands-on in the codebase, and partner directly with the CTO and CDAO to shape the future of our platform and product. This role is for an expert in their craft who has leadership experience but wants to stay deep in the code as an IC.

What You'll Do

• Drive technical architecture and system design across the entire engineering organization

• Lead development of large product features and initiatives

• Mentor and raise the bar for senior and staff engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design guidance

• Partner directly with the CTO and CDAO on technical strategy and roadmap

• Contribute to hiring by assessing senior technical talent

What We're Looking For

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience (10+ considered for exceptional candidates)

• Deep demonstrated expertise across multiple domains

• Track record of designing and shipping complex systems at scale

• Comfortable operating across the full stack when needed

• Experience working with TypeScript, Python, SQL, AWS

• Excellent written and verbal communication — you can explain complex tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and leadership

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with GQL, SQS, Temporal, Agentic AI

How to Apply

Please send your resume to recruiting [at] boom.build with Principal Engineer #202601 as the subject line.

We do not accept outreach from agencies or external recruiters.