Principal Software Engineer

Banyan Software provides the best permanent home for successful enterprise software companies their employees and customers. We are on a mission to acquire build and grow great enterprise software businesses all over the world that have dominant positions in niche vertical recent years Banyan was named the #1 fastest-growing private software company in the US on the Inc. 5000 and amongst the top 10 fastest-growing companies by the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 with a permanent capital base setup to preserve the legacy of founders Banyan focuses on a buy and hold for life strategy for growing software companies that serve specialized vertical markets.

About the Role

We are seeking an exceptional engineer that is ready to change how software is built thrives in fast-moving environments and is eager to take full ownership of complex projects. This role is not just about writing codeits about thinking like a founder architecting scalable systems and applyingAI-native development practices to accelerate delivery.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working across the stack (microservices backends frontends) and is energized by the potential of AI to change the way we transform legacy systems into modern service-based architectures. Youll operate with a high degree of autonomy in a small team of like-minded intrapreneurscollaborating with subject matter experts and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Development: Design build and deliver production-ready microservices APIs backends and frontends.
• AI-Accelerated Engineering: Use tools like GitHub Copilot Claude Code Cursor AI and ChatGPT to scaffold test and document code at speed.
• System Transformation: Lead rewrite efforts from legacy applications to modern architectures applying iterative strategies such as the strangler pattern to drive AI-centric enterprise-grade code construction.
• Technical Ownership: Operate with a whole system mindset from architecture to deployment ensuring technical decisions align with business needs.
• Collaboration: Partner with SMEs and domain developers to validate functionality and support knowledge transfer.

Required Experience

• 10 years of professional software development.
• 5 years with modern .NET (C# Core).
• 3 years with modern frontend frameworks (React with TypeScript or Angular).
• Experience with end-to-end rewrites or greenfield application builds.
• Familiarity with legacy migration (desktop to web undocumented systems) is a plus.
• Skilled at translating legacy procedural logic into modern services.
• Proficient inautomated test generation OpenAPI (Swagger) and integration of LLM-powered features (e.g. natural language search).

Agentic AI Expertise

• Hands-on experience using AI tools as coding partners.
• Ability to orchestrate multi-agent workflows for software development.
• Experience applying AI to reverse engineering summarization and UI prototyping.

What Were Looking For

• Full Stack as a Mindset: You see the big picture but youre equally comfortable in the details.
• AI-Native Thinking: You treat AI tools as co-developers using them to move faster and smarter.
• Innovative: You are not deterred by roadblocks you see them as an opportunity to blaze a trail into uncharted territory.
• Autonomous & Entrepreneurial: You thrive in ambiguity make informed trade-offs and deliver without heavy oversight.
• Business-Oriented: You understand that technology serves business outcomes and align technical solutions with real user needs.
• Collaborative & Transparent: You share reasoning communicate trade-offs and document clearly for long-term sustainability.

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to join a world wide company at a transformative stage. Youll work with an elite group of technologists and create real business impact. If youve ever wanted to think like a CTO while building like a swarm of engineers this is the role for you.

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