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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Energy Llc
- **Location:** Hilo, HI, United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, PostgreSQL, Scrum Methodology, Selenium, .NET Core
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_b890bd321588ea4c5267751fae0966bf

## About the Role

* Hands-on PostgreSQL experience that survives a whiteboard interview
 * At least 10 years of standing behind your own estimates
 * Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
 * Experience thriving in a learning-obsessed, deadline-driven setting like Retail Innovation Inc
 * Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Hilo, HI

## Description

Retail Innovation Inc is scaling its technology platform across HI, and the Principal Software Engineer we hire becomes one of its load-bearing decisions. For the documentation-first Principal Software Engineer with 10 years, Retail Innovation Inc answers with $176,000 - $281,000, a freelance setup, and a ladder built for climbing., * Build PostgreSQL self-service tools so Hilo teams stop filing tickets for everything

 * Pair-program tricky .NET Core edge cases with engineers across Hilo, HI
 * Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
 * Own the relentlessly-kind Attention Management subsystem that the rest of Retail Innovation Inc quietly depends on
 * Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions
 * Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
 * Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Selenium and Work-Life Balance