Principal Node.js Software Engineer

Sora, an ADP company, is hiring a Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer

This role is remote anywhere in the United States

Accepting applications until 10/31/25

We are building a product that streamlines the tedious and repetitive work People teams do every day, from sending emails to assigning onboarding tasks to a new hire’s manager to syncing data across anywhere from 3 to 20 tools in a customer’s HR stack. As a Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer, you’ll be an integral part of the agile and dynamic Sora engineering team, adopting a startup mindset—focused, action-oriented, and quick to execute while being thoughtful in our approach.

You’ll collaborate with a diverse group of stakeholders across Product, Architecture, Dev Ops, QA, Customer Success, and cross-functional teams at ADP throughout the SDLC—planning, designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting solutions for businesses of all sizes.

• Design, develop, test, and review code in an Agile environment; participate in stand-ups and sprint planning; interact with customer success and sales teams to hear directly from clients and prospects.
• Review your team’s work, help teammates excel, anticipate issues, and deliver finished, polished products.
• Lead initiatives to build services and infrastructure, improve performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and other core engineering basics; keep code up-to-date with best practices; advocate for well-tested, well-organized code.
• Engage in technical discovery, product alignment, end-to-end integration, and ongoing support with cross-functional teams.

• You’ll have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 12+ years of professional experience in relevant skills (in the tech stack below) in a similar role.
• NodeJS
• React (or a similar modern front-end framework)
• Postgres
• AWS (EC2, SQS, SES) or similar cloud experience
• Substantial (8+ years) Dev Ops, infrastructure, and CI/CD experience, including security, performance, and scale.
• Substantial (8+ years) experience scaling distributed systems, database architecture, observability, security/vulnerability reduction, and message queuing.
• Experience writing technical plans/proposals, completing proofs of concept, making and defending recommendations on technical direction/strategy, and leading multiple simultaneous technical projects across multiple scrum teams and/or departments.
• Demonstrated success as a cross-functional collaborator and problem solver across an organization.
• 8+ years of experience as a technical leader and mentor to junior developers.

• Have courageous team collaboration; engage in constructive discussions to find the best solution.
• Deliver at epic scale with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
• Be surrounded by curious learners who grow and learn from mistakes.
• Act like an owner and doer; take on challenges and solve complex problems.
• Give back to others and support our associates through ADP’s Philanthropic Foundation.
• Join a company committed to equality and equity.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!