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• Overview

  Commerce Partners Inc is hiring a Principal Software Engineer in Cambridge, MA.

• Role description

  Commerce Partners Inc needs a hands-on Principal Software Engineer who can architect, code, and deploy without losing sight of quality. The pitch is honest — $211,000 - $301,000, real ownership of technology outcomes, and a Commerce Partners Inc crew in Cambridge that has your back.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
  • Write clean, well-tested code that scales with Commerce Partners Inc's growing user base
  • Spot the purpose-led Communication anti-pattern in review before it spreads through Commerce Partners Inc
  • Catch the Node.js race conditions that only surface under Cambridge peak traffic
  • Own the Node.js release that Cambridge leadership has circled on the calendar
  • Ship the Ruby human-first rewrite that pays down years of Commerce Partners Inc technical debt
  • Reach into legacy Tailwind CSS modules and leave them cleaner than you found them

  What You'll Bring

  • Principal fluency in Communication, with Redis on your roadmap
  • Working familiarity with temporary schedules and team norms at Commerce Partners Inc
  • Willingness to relocate to Cambridge, MA, or to make remote work
  • The judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire
  • Around 8+ years of hands-on experience in a technology role
  • Proven follow-through, measured in shipped things rather than good intentions
  • Resilience measured across 9 years of technology cycles

  At Commerce Partners Inc, the hands-dirty Cambridge crew believes technology should feel boring and reliable, never thrilling and fragile. Around here, "I don't know yet" is a perfectly respectable sentence and often the start of something good.

  At Commerce Partners Inc, you'll find $211,000 - $301,000, a four-day flex week option, and ongoing coaching to deepen your Tailwind CSS skills.

  We stamped it current today; the temporary opening is genuinely accepting candidates.

  Stop scrolling job boards and start a conversation with the Commerce Partners Inc hiring team instead.

• Required skills

  • Ruby
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Node.js
  • React
  • Redis
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Communication

• Benefits & perks

  • Basic life insurance
  • Meditation Room
  • Vision Insurance
  • Home Office Setup
  • Flexible Hours
  • Pet-Friendly Office
  • Voluntary benefits marketplace
  • Pet Insurance
  • Legal insurance plan

• Apply before 2026-12-31

  Submit your application for this Temporary technology position.