Life.Church is hiring a
Principal Engineer

📍 Edmond, OK

The Principal Engineer is responsible for serving as the senior technical leader across all Digital Product Engineering teams, providing strategic technical guidance that spans both product and platform engineering domains. This role will drive organization-wide architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and ensure technical alignment with the Life.Church mission.

At Life.Church, we exist to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. It’s been our mission since 1996 and has guided us every day. Leading people isn’t just an expectation; it’s a necessity.  It’s a cornerstone of our culture. That's why we’re always seeking leaders—leaders like you—to bring your skills to life. We are one church meeting in multiple locations, and we want to help you become the person God made you to be. 

The Digital Product Team leverages technology to reach people worldwide, connecting them to our ministry and each other through our website, apps, and all Life.Church locations. Our apps serve our attenders by connecting them with our church and helping facilitate their growth as a fully devoted follower of Christ. It doesn't get much better than that!

What You'll Do

  • Synthesize technical designs and architecture to advise teams, inform buy-versus-build decisions, and evolve Life.Church’s overall technical platform architecture
  • Recognize, influence, and/or resolve critical issues that may affect the organization's technical direction/strategy
  • Develop software for each platform in span of care
  • Review and test the existing code-base or technical integrations for various projects
  • Provide support to other Digital Product engineers, primarily Senior Software Engineers, by reviewing, testing, and approving code/software development
  • Collaborate with various teams and team members to determine the technical approach and to organize development plans
  • Evaluate the complexity of tasks and provide realistic estimates on the level of effort and completion
  • Lead the organization to success with little guidance or direction from senior leadership
  • Work with other leads to set policies and processes that span engineering
  • Serve as a coach and mentor across all of engineering
  • Actively contribute to broad organization technical strategies, decisions, and processes
  • Research industry best practices and new technologies or tools that could be implemented at Life.Church

Skills Needed to Succeed

  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to maintain relationships and partnerships 
  • Maintain a systematic and organized approach to completing assignments accurately, thoroughly, and timely
  • Clearly explain complicated and detailed processes in a concise and simple way
  • Ability to self-motivate, take initiative, make independent decisions, and problem-solve
  • Ability to collaborate in a team environment and work independently 
  • Ability to maintain composure during stressful situations
  • Own technical design for projects and understands, and articulates, the tradeoffs in creating high-quality software
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, preferred
  • 10+ years of related work experience
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📍 Location: Edmond, OK
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