Tech Lead/ Principal Software Engineer

Towne is an exceptional arrival through departure experience company. With its best-in-class parking and hospitality solutions and its fully integrated technology platform, we deliver seamless parking and mobility experiences in the places where people live, learn, work, play, rejuvenate, and recover. Towne’s 14,000 team members create smiles by delivering exceptional experiences for the millions of people we proudly serve each year. For nearly 40 years, Towne has been committed to providing the best experience, delivered by the best team, powered by innovative technology, enhancing lives and communities. For more information, visit www.towne.com and follow us on LinkedIn. 

Descriptive Statement(s)

Provide technical leadership for a distributed software engineering team by establishing technical direction, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and ensuring adherence to architectural standards and engineering best practices.

Design, develop, test, and deliver high-quality software solutions while remaining actively engaged in hands-on software development and technical problem solving.

Lead Agile software delivery by facilitating sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery.

Partner with Product Management and Architecture to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, prioritize work, manage changing priorities, and ensure alignment with product roadmaps and architectural standards.

Promote software quality by driving secure coding practices, application performance optimization, technical documentation, automated testing, and continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle.

Leverage AI-assisted software development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and development efficiency while promoting responsible AI usage across the engineering team.

Identify, communicate, and resolve technical risks, project dependencies, and delivery obstacles; provide timely updates to leadership regarding project status, priorities, and resource needs.

Foster a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture by coaching team members, encouraging knowledge sharing, supporting continuous learning, and developing technical capabilities across distributed teams.

Collaborate with cross-functional partners, including Product Management, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders, to ensure software solutions meet business objectives, technical standards, and customer needs.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit or stand for extended periods of time and may be required to run; walk; handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field required. Equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience may be considered.

• 8+ years of experience developing enterprise software, including 2+ years leading engineering teams as a Technical Lead, Principal Engineer, or similar technical leadership role. Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms, IoT, payments, or connected devices preferred.

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, .NET/C#, Angular and/or React, SQL Server, NoSQL databases, REST APIs, and modern cloud application architecture.
• Demonstrated experience leading distributed or offshore development teams using Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, and continuous delivery.
• Experience conducting code reviews, mentoring engineers, driving engineering standards, and delivering scalable, secure, high-performing software solutions.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) and understanding of modern AI engineering concepts and responsible AI-assisted software development.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and business partnership skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts, manage competing priorities, and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Knowledge of secure software development practices, including OWASP principles and PCI-aware application development. Azure certification and experience with Python, Next.js, LLM development, MCP, mobile applications, or payment technologies are preferred.

Performs duties independently with minimal supervision, operating from specific and definite directions and instructions. Decisions are of a routine nature made within prescribed operating guidelines, policies and procedures. Mistakes/errors may result in work stoppage, loss of business, poor customer relations and/or damage to product, all of which can have negative financial implications for the organization.

The employee has control over resources available only.

The working conditions and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The majority of work will be performed in climate-controlled environment, but may be exposed to inclement weather and varying degrees of temperatures on occasion.

Travel of up to 10% may be required.