Principal Engineer

San Jose, CR Until 8/23/2026 5+ years exp First posted June 10, 2025 Last posted June 10, 2025
Job description

Boss Tech is the first and only Business Operating Smart Solution empowering entrepreneurs to embrace Web3 as it is intended: openly yet securely, distributed yet authenticated, and streamlined and automated for meaningful data-driven efficacy. Boss Tech was created by multi-exit technology entrepreneurs to enable their own startups and is the business operating system enabling AI, AR/VR, and Blockchain (Crypto) for Web3. Boss Tech disrupts current disparate, outdated systems, to leapfrog our client’s competitors.

With decades of startup culture creation and leadership under our “boss belts,” we know how to optimize resources to deliver for our clients and our Team! Boss Tech Team Members are just like the platform, one-of-a-kind artists delivering to their highest potential while co-creating the culture that speaks to their soul. Boss Tech delivers in both the United States and Costa Rica to blend the beauty of both cultures for a standout passionate, committed, and productive team.

Boss Tech is scaling rapidly with no limit to its growth potential and ambitions to match your expertise.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and support production quality application code where a high level of proficiency is required on frontend and backend code
  • Approximately 20% of the work will be frontend and 80% will be backend
  • Understand operational characteristics of production systems, identify abnormalities, and respond to and fix abnormalities
  • Plan, track, and report on work progress
  • Accurately estimate stories and tasks considering their level-of-effort, complexity, and uncertainty
  • Debrief on team performance and make incremental, small changes to support improvements
  • Must have the ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Strong communication skills to interact with Agile team members
  • Good analytical thinking and problem-solving skills

Technical Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 5+ years of experience in Python
  • 3+ years of experience in SQL
  • 5+ years of web development experience
  • 2+ years of experience with React Native and/or React
  • Experience with native iOS and Android apps
  • Experience with DevOps automation and CI/CD best practices
  • Experience with microservices architecture
  • Experience with Agile

Bonus Skills

  • Relational data modeling
  • New Relic, Kibana, AWS and Google Analytics monitoring and troubleshooting
  • AWS RDS, EC2, ECS, ElasticCache, S3, CloudFront, SQS
  • Hybrid Cloud technologies like OpenShift
  • A/B test platforms
  • Jenkins or Azure DevOps
  • Kubernetes / Docker / Containerized Infrastructure
  • Mobile development experience
  • Background with payment processing systems

Benefits

  • Hybrid work opportunity
  • Flexible PTO
  • Career development
  • Private health insurance
  • Commuter assistance
  • Pura vida workspace vibes
  • Support CR - Micro-lending and CCC Support
About this role

Summary

Design and maintain web applications, collaborate in agile teams, optimize systems, and develop mobile and backend solutions.

Job title

Principal Engineer

Experience level

5+ years

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Hybrid remote in San Jose, Costa Rica, with flexible work options.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

pythonsqlweb developmentreact nativedevops

Preferred skills

relational data modelingawskubernetesmobile developmentpayment systems

Specializations

web developmentreactpythonmicroservicesdevops
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San José Province, San José, Costa Rica

Hybrid City