About the Company:

Stable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises to move their business forward. We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

We’re a privately held, Great Place to Work Certified Company™ with a multi-award-winning culture and an impressive 10-plus-year trajectory of sustainable growth. At Stable Kernel, we support our employees in ways that help them do some of the best work of their lives.

About the Role:

As a Senior Design Engineer, you'll occupy the space where design systems, front-end architecture, and AI-augmented workflows converge. You bring an engineering background that shapes how you design—not just what you produce—and your decisions account for implementation tradeoffs before a handoff ever happens.

We're looking for someone who thinks in systems first, operates confidently across levels of abstraction, and is already using AI tooling as a real part of how they work. You're not waiting to see where things are headed, you're already there, refining the workflow as you go.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Technical Impact: 
  • Designing and engineering component libraries and design systems where token architecture, file structure, and component behavior map directly to what engineering builds and ships.
  • Owning the Figma layer of the system: variables, component architecture, auto layout, and documentation structured for real developer handoff — not just visual reference.
  • Integrating AI-assisted tooling (Claude Code, Figma MCP, agentic workflows) into design and delivery processes, actively improving how the team works rather than experimenting in isolation.
  • Identifying and communicating implementation tradeoffs at the design stage, so engineering receives decisions that have already accounted for feasibility, performance, and maintainability.
  • Moving fluidly between product architecture conversations and single-interaction design decisions, keeping both levels coherent within the same engagement.
• Business Alignment: 
  • Partnering with product design and engineering leadership to align system-level design decisions with long-term product architecture, reducing downstream technical debt.
  • Contributing to project estimation and scoping with a realistic model of design-to-engineering effort, including the cost of ambiguity in component specs, handoff gaps, and design system divergence.
  • Bringing a clear point of view on what AI tooling means for how design teams are structured, how work is scoped, and how value is delivered to clients.
• Interacting with Others: 
  • Serving as the connective tissue between design and engineering teams, facilitating shared understanding of constraints, conventions, and system decisions.
  • Mentoring product designers on systems thinking, Figma architecture, and engineering-informed design, translating technical depth into accessible guidance.
  • Communicating system decisions and tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders, framing complexity in terms of user and business outcomes.
• Autonomy & Ambiguity: 
  • Taking ownership of design system strategy and component library decisions, driving toward coherence even when project pressures push toward one-offs.
  • Navigating fast-moving AI tooling with a grounded and critical perspective — knowing when to adopt, when to adapt, and when to hold the line on craft.
• Problem-Solving:
  • Proactively identifying where design and engineering are drifting apart and proposing structural fixes—in the system, the process, or the handoff—before they become delivery problems.
  • Recognizing when a design decision has downstream engineering implications and raising it early, rather than leaving it to be discovered in implementation.
• Leadership:
  • Advancing the team's collective understanding of AI's role in design practice, not as a novelty, but as a genuine shift in how designers think, collaborate, and ship.
  • Advocating for systems-first design culture, helping the broader design practice build habits and tooling that scale beyond individual projects.

Intimate, Working Familiarity With:

• Figma at an advanced level: variables, component architecture, design tokens, file organization that mirrors engineering structure, and developer handoff tooling.
• Design token systems and their relationship to front-end implementation (CSS custom properties, style dictionaries, multi-platform theming).
• AI-assisted design and development tools in active use: Claude Code, Figma MCP, agentic workflow tooling.
• Front-end development fundamentals: HTML, CSS, and at a minimum a working literacy in a component-based framework (React, React Native, Flutter, or equivalent).
• Collaboration with engineering teams in an agile delivery environment, including experience contributing to or reviewing component libraries in code.
• Accessibility standards as a system-level concern, not a checklist applied at the end.

General Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience spanning product design and front-end engineering, with a portfolio that demonstrates both.
• Demonstrable experience building or maintaining design systems at scale, with evidence of how the system connects to engineering output.
• Degree in design, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience contributing to open-source design systems or component libraries.
• Familiarity with tokens-as-code tooling: Style Dictionary, Theo, or equivalent.
• Background in retail, e-commerce, loyalty, or other high-complexity consumer product contexts.
• Experience with motion design defined at the system level (easing curves, duration scales, transition tokens).

A Bit More Info:

Minimum Base Rate: $65 per hour

This is a contract position.

Stable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.

Minimal travel is associated with this role.

*Note – We are not sponsoring employment visas at this time. If you are currently in possession of an employment visa, it will need to be effective for at least 3 years from the date of your application for your candidacy for employment to be considered.

Stable Kernel’s culture is inclusive and expansive. We celebrate diversity in its many glorious forms and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender role orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

However, we will discriminate against those unwilling to comply with the practice of our company values:

• we work with integrity always
• we respect our work and each other
• we are dedicated to life-long learning and sharing
• we stay hungry for new challenges

If you are like-minded in this regard, we hope you will apply. We look forward to meeting you.

About the Company:

Stable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises to move their business forward. We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

We’re a privately held, Great Place to Work Certified Company™ with a multi-award-winning culture and an impressive 10-plus-year trajectory of sustainable growth. At Stable Kernel, we support our employees in ways that help them do some of the best work of their lives.

About the Role:

As a Stable Kernel Principal Software Engineer, you play an essential role in setting our portfolio of world-class clients up for success through the development and delivery of their most innovative, transformational initiatives. You will collaborate daily with other engineers and product team members, make decisions that influence the path of a product roadmap, leverage software development best practices, and become a more well-rounded engineer as you learn new technologies. Your knowledgeable practice, reliability, and consultative nature make you an engineer that stakeholders and teammates trust.

Principal Software Engineers may be classified as individual contributors or people managers with individual contributor responsibilities.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Technical Impact: 
• Designing and implementing exemplary solutions regarding scalability and cost-effectiveness by making trade-offs between opportunity and complexity.
• Setting standards for codebase health and promoting best practices throughout the organization. 
• Business Alignment: 
• Clarifying strategic outcomes and influencing roadmaps and projects.
• Identifying, suggesting, and driving improvements in your customers' end-to-end experience.
• Aiding in estimating work for new business with more unknowns and coaching others in estimation best practices. 
• Interacting with Others: 
• Coordinating across the entire company.
• Influencing the entire organization to make changes to support your work.
• Advising teams across the company.
• Autonomy & Ambiguity: 
• Designing a long-term roadmap with no direction. 
• Translating customer and business needs and strategic direction into projects and consistently simplifying high-complexity situations.
• Coaching and mentoring others in tackling ambiguity.
• Problem-Solving:
• Decomposing strategic direction into projects:
•  Planning, communicating, and executing to solve our most challenging problems.
• Ensuring alignment with long-term objectives, fostering a culture of informed decision-making and innovation.
• Anticipating most risks and driving simplification to mitigate risks ahead of time. 
• Escalating issues while solving them in parallel ensuring others are informed.
• Leadership:
• Proposing new organization-level processes to improve key areas such as team throughput, employee happiness, or product engagement.
• Driving best practices across the organization.
• Exhibiting exceptional mentoring abilities and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement by
• identifying and nurturing potential in others 
• providing strategic guidance
• helping develop career paths for team members 
• Leading projects.
• Setting the strategic direction for projects or areas of technology, leading multiple project teams, and influencing decision-making at higher organizational levels. 
• Exhibiting strong capabilities in stakeholder management, negotiating, and problem-solving in complex scenarios. 
• Mentoring and developing other leaders within the team, fostering a culture of innovation, and contributing significantly to organizational goals.

Intimate, Working Familiarity With:

• Polyglot: Extensive experience with a wide variety of both frontend and backend languages, and ability to learn new ones with ease. Current stack consists of Typescript, Golang, React and React Native.
• Agentic Development: Has intimate working knowledge of current agentic practices, keeps ahead of the curve of agentic development. This includes but is not limited to Claude Code, OpenCode, Spec-driven-development, and agent orchestrators. 

• AWS: Drive cloud architecture strategy on AWS, building secure, scalable, and cost-optimized systems with services such as ECS/Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS/Postgres, S3, CloudWatch, KMS, and IAM; guide teams in adopting cloud-native patterns and operational excellence.
• Pulumi/Terraform & IaC: Experience driving infrastructure strategy and automation using Pulumi or Terraform, embedding Infrastructure as Code into development workflows and enabling secure, scalable cloud environments.
• Vector databases (e.g., pg_vector) for similarity search and AI/ML-powered applications.
• Deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications securely and reliably using Kubernetes.

General Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience delivering and evolving production systems across diverse technical stacks, platforms, and architectures.
• Extensive experience serving as a trusted consultant to stakeholders and cross-functional teams, providing expert guidance on backend service design, delivery, and integration.
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field or experience. 

Nice To Have:

• Familiarity with Go for building performant, scalable backend services in production environments.

A Bit More Info:

Minimum Base Compensation: $170,000

This is a full-time position.

Stable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.

Minimal travel is associated with this role.

Our generous total compensation package includes:

• Company-subsidized health, vision, and dental plan premium options beginning on the first day of employment
• 401k with above-average company matching 
• Fully paid Group Life, Short and Long Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
• Optional Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account participation
• Voluntary Life, Critical Illness, and Accident insurance
• EAP and Health Advocacy program available at no cost to employees and their dependents
• $3000+ annual industry educational budget 
• Paid time off and paid holidays Access to Perks at Work program featuring a variety of discounted products and services

*Note – We are not sponsoring employment visas at this time. If you are currently in possession of an employment visa, it will need to be effective for at least 3 years from the date of your application for your candidacy for employment to be considered.

Stable Kernel’s culture is inclusive and expansive. We celebrate diversity in its many glorious forms and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender role orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

However, we will discriminate against those unwilling to comply with the practice of our company values:

• we work with integrity always
• we respect our work and each other
• we are dedicated to life-long learning and sharing
• we stay hungry for new challenges

If you are like-minded in this regard, we hope you will apply. We look forward to meeting you.

About the Company:

Stable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises to move their business forward. We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

We’re a privately held, Great Place to Work Certified Company™ with a multi-award-winning culture and an impressive 10-plus-year trajectory of sustainable growth. At Stable Kernel, we support our employees in ways that help them do some of the best work of their lives.

About the Role:

As a Stable Kernel Principal Software Engineer, you play an essential role in setting our portfolio of world-class clients up for success through the development and delivery of their most innovative, transformational initiatives. You will collaborate daily with other engineers and product team members, make decisions that influence the path of a product roadmap, leverage software development best practices, and become a more well-rounded engineer as you learn new technologies. Your knowledgeable practice, reliability, and consultative nature make you an engineer that stakeholders and teammates trust.

Principal Software Engineers may be classified as individual contributors or people managers with individual contributor responsibilities.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Technical Impact: 
• Designing and implementing exemplary solutions regarding scalability and cost-effectiveness by making trade-offs between opportunity and complexity.
• Setting standards for codebase health and promoting best practices throughout the organization. 
• Business Alignment: 
• Clarifying strategic outcomes and influencing roadmaps and projects.
• Identifying, suggesting, and driving improvements in your customers' end-to-end experience.
• Aiding in estimating work for new business with more unknowns and coaching others in estimation best practices. 
• Interacting with Others: 
• Coordinating across the entire company.
• Influencing the entire organization to make changes to support your work.
• Advising teams across the company.
• Autonomy & Ambiguity: 
• Designing a long-term roadmap with no direction. 
• Translating customer and business needs and strategic direction into projects and consistently simplifying high-complexity situations.
• Coaching and mentoring others in tackling ambiguity.
• Problem-Solving:
• Decomposing strategic direction into projects:
•  Planning, communicating, and executing to solve our most challenging problems.
• Ensuring alignment with long-term objectives, fostering a culture of informed decision-making and innovation.
• Anticipating most risks and driving simplification to mitigate risks ahead of time. 
• Escalating issues while solving them in parallel ensuring others are informed.
• Leadership:
• Proposing new organization-level processes to improve key areas such as team throughput, employee happiness, or product engagement.
• Driving best practices across the organization.
• Exhibiting exceptional mentoring abilities and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement by
• identifying and nurturing potential in others 
• providing strategic guidance
• helping develop career paths for team members 
• Leading projects.
• Setting the strategic direction for projects or areas of technology, leading multiple project teams, and influencing decision-making at higher organizational levels. 
• Exhibiting strong capabilities in stakeholder management, negotiating, and problem-solving in complex scenarios. 
• Mentoring and developing other leaders within the team, fostering a culture of innovation, and contributing significantly to organizational goals.

Intimate, Working Familiarity With:

• Go: Architecting and optimizing large-scale distributed systems using Go, applying advanced concurrency patterns, profiling, and performance tuning to meet demanding SLAs.
• AWS: Drive cloud architecture strategy on AWS, building secure, scalable, and cost-optimized systems with services such as ECS/Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS/Postgres, S3, CloudWatch, KMS, and IAM; guide teams in adopting cloud-native patterns and operational excellence.
• IaC: Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tooling such as AWS CDK or Terraform.
• Kubernetes: Experience with Kubernetes concepts and container orchestration.
• DynamoDB / Postgres: Design and evolve data architectures using both NoSQL (DynamoDB) and relational (Postgres) technologies; define data models, partition strategies, indexing approaches, and performance optimization patterns to support high-volume, mission-critical workloads.
• Strong experience architecting, designing, and implementing backend services with an emphasis on high test coverage at all levels – unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end.
• Experience creating and executing automated tests within CI/CD pipelines using quality gates to ensure reliability and maintainability (e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins).
• Experience with test infrastructure and environments that support backend service validation, including service virtualization and mocking in CI/CD workflows.
• Experience conducting backend performance and load testing to assess system scalability, latency, and throughput under production-like conditions.

General Requirements:

• 10+ years of development experience with an emphasis on back-end development. 
• Extensive experience serving as a trusted consultant to stakeholders and cross-functional teams, providing expert guidance on backend service design, delivery, and integration.
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field or experience. 

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Java.
• Experience with observability platforms and best practices (Datadog a plus).
• Experience in designing and implementing progressive deployment strategies such as Canary and Blue/Green deployments to reduce risk, ensure seamless rollouts, and maintain high availability across complex, distributed systems.
• Familiarity with tools such as ArgoCD.
• A curious technologist who explores AI augmented development workflows, leveraging tools such as Anthropic models, Cursor, Copilot with Open Spec, Spec Kit, and related frameworks.

A Bit More Info:

Minimum Base Compensation: $170,000

This is a full-time position.

Stable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.

Minimal travel is associated with this role.

Our generous total compensation package includes:

• Company-subsidized health, vision, and dental plan premium options beginning on the first day of employment
• 401k with above-average company matching 
• Fully paid Group Life, Short and Long Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
• Optional Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account participation
• Voluntary Life, Critical Illness, and Accident insurance
• EAP and Health Advocacy program available at no cost to employees and their dependents
• $3000+ annual industry educational budget 
• Paid time off and paid holidays Access to Perks at Work program featuring a variety of discounted products and services

*Note – We are not sponsoring employment visas at this time. If you are currently in possession of an employment visa, it will need to be effective for at least 3 years from the date of your application for your candidacy for employment to be considered.

Stable Kernel’s culture is inclusive and expansive. We celebrate diversity in its many glorious forms and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender role orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

However, we will discriminate against those unwilling to comply with the practice of our company values:

• we work with integrity always
• we respect our work and each other
• we are dedicated to life-long learning and sharing
• we stay hungry for new challenges

If you are like-minded in this regard, we hope you will apply. We look forward to meeting you.

About the Company:

Stable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises to move their business forward. We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA. 

We’re a privately held, Great Place to Work Certified Company™ with multi-awards for our amazing culture. Plus we have an impressive 10+ year trajectory of sustainable growth. At Stable Kernel, we support our colleagues in ways that help them do some of the best work of their lives.

About the Role:

As a Stable Kernel Client Experience Strategist, your primary goals are to build loyalty with our clients and identify potential growth opportunities by operating as a strategic advisor to our clients. You will be on the front line with our clients, anticipating and staying one step ahead of their needs. Using your active listening and observational skills and having empathy for the client, you will function as a voice of the client, helping them understand and communicate the “what” and “why” of their technology needs to SK team members and leaders. You will leverage your relationship management and detail-oriented strengths to actively manage healthy client accounts, be a champion for positive change, and handle client escalations, if they arise. 

As a member of our client strategy organization, you will report directly to a Director of Client Experience and work closely with our engineers, project managers, designers, other client strategists, business analysts, our sales team, and other colleagues across the company.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Project Impact:
• Designing and implementing holistic and strategic solutions with an eye for growth and minimizing unnecessary complexity. 
• Providing feedback and ideas that improve the overall health of the account.
• Defending the work against compromise and corner-cutting.
• Understanding the financial impact of decisions made.
• Utilizes advanced-level capabilities and supports team members by crafting reusable solutions within existing toolsets.
• Creating standard business process diagrams and product canvases that follow industry standards.
• Understanding cross-department practices and terminology, including design, engineering, and agile project management, to communicate with team members and clients.
• Business Alignment: 
• Understanding the client’s immediate challenges and strategic objectives.
• Identifying and implementing ways to provide better value to our clients beyond your team.
• Suggesting and delivering improvements based on your observations.
• Supporting activities that promote SK and attract new business (e.g. Thought Leadership).  
• Translating high-level and rough client requirements into clear requirements for various SK teams (BA, Engineering, Design, and Project Management) to craft project plans, product roadmaps, and estimates.
• Identifying and redirecting deviations from plans when they exist.
• Extending the expectations to business processes in order to identify requirements.
• Demonstrating the ability to effectively manage large or multiple client accounts.
• Communicating and presenting to various levels of leadership.
• Leading Lean Inception workshops and other discovery exercises. 
• Understanding of SK’s service offerings and cross-department capabilities allowing you to serve as an expert advisor to our clients.
• Identifying new organic growth opportunities with the client and engaging them in next steps.
• Supporting the statement of work process with the ability to craft sections of the SOW independently.

• Interacting with Others: 
• Engaging heavily with clients with frequent engagement and collaboration with team leads. 
• Influencing improvements for your team, projects, and clients.
• Advising clients and team members independently.
• Assessing and communicating the current status of client engagement and project health to clients.
• Identifying trends for health issues or patterns of progress.
• Identifying and understanding how to handle outliers and processes that are not in control.
• Autonomy & Ambiguity: 
• Thinking critically on how to solve problems and requiring no direction on completing activities and tasks.
• Gathering, describing, and presenting high-level business needs to internal team members.
• Negotiating and working out solutions within environments with a moderate level of volatility, uncertainty, ambiguity, and/or complexity. 
• Problem-Solving:
• Making trade-offs between short-term and long-term solutions and evaluating trade-offs others are making.
• Preventing issues and optimizing resolutions by effectively communicating to team members and leadership.
• Recognizing and mitigating risks and removing roadblocks to find a way forward in difficult situations with the ability to anticipate future risks and remove them before problems arise. 
• Escalating issues and supporting others to address immediate causes.
• Leadership:
• Taking ownership of challenges and opportunities to streamline team processes.
• Advocating for best practices by researching and proposing potential alternatives when needed.
• Mentoring junior and intermediate colleagues by helping them grow professionally.
• Setting a positive example by using our company values and imperatives as a north star.
• Providing regular constructive feedback.
• Resolving conflicts.
• Guiding less experienced colleagues through complex projects.
• Leading team learning sessions.
• Leading a large-scale program or multiple projects
• Demonstrating strong project management skills, including planning, delegating, and monitoring progress. 
• Making critical decisions and driving projects to successful completion.
• Representing the team in client conversations.

Intimate, Working Familiarity With:

• Microsoft Office Suite

General Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in a client service role.
• At least 3 years of experience working with software development teams or experience in an IT industry.
• Experience managing client portfolios with cumulative annual revenues and a track record of growth within those clients.
• Excellent relationship-building and strategic prowess, with the ability to speak with executives at Fortune 100 companies.
• Ability to lead client engagements and be a key influencer.
• Curiosity for new technologies relative to Stable Kernel solutions offerings, and a passion for staying current with trends that affect the custom software ecosystem.

A Bit More Info:

Minimum Base Compensation: $115,000

This is a full-time position.

Stable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.

Travel may be associated with this role as it requires you to maintain an in-office presence in a hybrid capacity for regular in-person engagements for both clients and internal teams.

Our generous total compensation package includes:

• Company-subsidized health, vision, and dental plan premium options beginning on the first day of employment
• 401k with above-average company matching 
• Fully paid Group Life, Short and Long Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
• Optional Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, and Health Savings Account participation
• Voluntary Life, Critical Illness, and Accident insurance
• EAP and Health Advocacy program available at no cost to employees and their dependents
• $3000 annual industry educational budget 
• Paid time off and paid holidays

*Note – We are not sponsoring employment visas at this time. If you are currently in possession of an employment visa, it will need to be effective for at least 3 years from the date of your application for your candidacy for employment to be considered.

Stable Kernel’s culture is inclusive and expansive. We celebrate diversity in its many glorious forms and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender role orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

However, we will discriminate against those unwilling to comply with the practice of our company values:

• we work with integrity always
• we respect our work and each other
• we are dedicated to life-long learning and sharing
• we stay hungry for new challenges

If you are like-minded in this regard, we hope you will apply. We look forward to meeting you.

About the Company:

Stable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises to move their business forward. We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

We’re a privately held, Great Place to Work Certified Company™ with a multi-award-winning culture and an impressive 10-plus-year trajectory of sustainable growth. At Stable Kernel, we support our employees in ways that help them do some of the best work of their lives.

About the Role:

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of digital products across a range of industries. You’ll drive the creation of thoughtful, intuitive, and engaging experiences that not only meet user needs but also align with business goals. Your work will directly influence the success of our clients and the evolution of our design practice.

We’re seeking a Senior designer who brings a rare blend of strategic thinking, creative curiosity, and practical execution. You’re confident without ego, empathetic by nature, and thrive in collaborative, cross-functional environments. You understand how to balance ideal experiences with real-world constraints — and know when to push the boundaries.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Technical Impact: 
• Designing end-to-end mobile and desktop experiences, from discovery and wireframing through high-fidelity mockups and interaction specifications.
• Creating and maintaining a component library and design system that ensures consistency across the application.
• Conducting user research, usability testing, and design validation to inform and iterate on design decisions.
• Collaborating closely with engineers to ensure designs are implemented with high fidelity and optimal performance.
• Designing for accessibility, responsive layout, and platform-specific conventions on iOS,Android, and web.
• Participating in design reviews and providing thoughtful feedback to peers.
• Business Alignment: 
• Understanding and aligning with project objectives, effectively balancing leadership and collaboration to shape design approaches that support overall goals.
• Delivering customer value through design, identifying improvement opportunities within their scope and contributing enhancements that elevate the user experience.
• Supporting project estimation and planning, identifying gaps, risks, and assumptions, and working with team members to ensure accurate planning and costing.
• Partnering with sales and business development teams, offering design expertise and support for scoping and client-facing engagements when needed.
• Interacting with Others: 
• Fostering strong collaboration across teams, facilitating communication within project teams, and providing support to fellow designers to ensure alignment and momentum.
• Influencing through insight and mentorship, actively sharing knowledge, and collaborating on solutions with other designers.
• Serving as a design expert on project teams, balancing guidance from senior designers with mentorship for junior team members while confidently advising stakeholders and providing clear design direction.
• Communicating project status proactively, escalating unforeseen challenges, and working with leadership to resolve blockers and maintain progress. 
• Autonomy & Ambiguity: 
• Taking ownership of design initiatives, delivering high-quality work while aligning with the broader project, departmental, and company objectives.
• Navigating ambiguity with support, demonstrating comfort in uncertain situations while collaborating with peers to plan, structure, and execute complex design solutions.
• Contributing to roadmapping and project planning, leading efforts to define phases and timelines with input from cross-functional team members.
• Problem-Solving:
• Driving problem-solving at multiple levels, addressing challenges across project, team, and department contexts with strategic thinking and a solution-oriented mindset.
• Identifying and planning for risks proactively, anticipating potential challenges, and integrating mitigation strategies into project planning.
• Escalating issues proactively to the appropriate team members, including Project Manager or Product Design leadership, to address blockers and maintain project momentum.
• Leadership:
• Contributing to process improvement efforts, actively collaborating with the team to refine workflows and enhance team efficiency.
• Advocating for design best practices, staying current with industry standards and sharing insights to elevate the team’s overall craft.
• Mentoring and collaborating with peers, providing guidance to base-level designers and contributing to the growth and development of fellow senior designers.
• Leading design efforts across projects, typically serving as a project lead unless partnered with a lead designer, and flexibly supporting design work based on project structure and team needs.

Intimate, Working Familiarity With:

• Figma is essential, with working knowledge of additional design and prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Sketch, and Zeplin.
• Understanding of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and Android’s Material Design principles, ensuring platform-consistent, accessible, user-centered experiences.
• Design system creation and component library management.
• User research methods: interviews, usability testing, journey mapping.
• Collaboration with engineering teams in an agile delivery environment.
• Accessibility standards and inclusive design practices for mobile.
• Google and Microsoft Office Suite to create compelling client presentations.

General Requirements:

• 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years focused on native or cross-platform mobile apps.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong mobile design work across iOS and Android.
• Degree in a design field or relevant experience. 

Nice to Haves:

• Experience designing for retail, e-commerce, or loyalty applications.
• Familiarity with React Native or cross-platform design considerations.
• Experience with motion design and micro-interactions.
• Background working with professional (B2B) and consumer (B2C) user personas alongside consumer flows.

A Bit More Info:

Minimum Base Compensation: $65 per hour

This is a contract position.

Stable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.

Minimal travel is associated with this role.

*Note – We are not sponsoring employment visas at this time. If you are currently in possession of an employment visa, it will need to be effective for at least 3 years from the date of your application for your candidacy for employment to be considered.

Stable Kernel’s culture is inclusive and expansive. We celebrate diversity in its many glorious forms and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender role orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

However, we will discriminate against those unwilling to comply with the practice of our company values:

• we work with integrity always
• we respect our work and each other
• we are dedicated to life-long learning and sharing
• we stay hungry for new challenges

If you are like-minded in this regard, we hope you will apply. We look forward to meeting you.

About the Company:

Stable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises to move their business forward. We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

We’re a privately held, Great Place to Work Certified Company™ with a multi-award-winning culture and an impressive 10-plus-year trajectory of sustainable growth. At Stable Kernel, we support our employees in ways that help them do some of the best work of their lives.

About the Role:

As a Stable Kernel Principal Software Engineer, you play an essential role in setting our portfolio of world-class clients up for success through the development and delivery of their most innovative, transformational initiatives. You will collaborate daily with other engineers and product team members, make decisions that influence the path of a product roadmap, leverage software development best practices, and become a more well-rounded engineer as you learn new technologies. Your knowledgeable practice, reliability, and consultative nature make you an engineer that stakeholders and teammates trust.

Principal Software Engineers may be classified as individual contributors or people managers with individual contributor responsibilities.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Technical Impact: 
• Design and implement loyalty engine services in Java using the Spring framework, including transaction processing, tier calculation, reward accrual, and benefit eligibility.
• Design and implement RESTful API services in Java using the Spring framework, following contract-first development practices, with a focus on aggregation patterns, caching strategies, circuit breaking, and graceful degradation for latency-sensitive flows.
• Modern Java (17+) and familiarity with current Spring Boot conventions, including reactive patterns where appropriate.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including service deployment, networking fundamentals, and managed services such as queues, caches, and databases.
• Identity and access management protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML, including integration with enterprise identity providers and directory services.
• Establishing and evolving service architecture, including domain modeling, rules evaluation patterns, event-driven state management, auditability, API versioning, and backward-compatibility standards that support independent mobile release cadences.
• Defining integration contracts with upstream enterprise platforms (POS, CRM, commerce, identity providers) and downstream consumers (BFF, analytics, finance), including data normalization, error mapping, and retry logic.
• Building and maintaining integrations that pull transaction data from multiple channels and apply consistent earning logic regardless of source.
• Authentication and session management patterns, including token refresh, device trust, and silent re-authentication for long-lived mobile sessions.
• Implementing cross-cutting concerns such as idempotency, correlation IDs, observability, and audit event emission.
• Implementing robust state management for account-level aggregations, provisional and finalized reward states, and period-based accrual tracking.
• Designing test strategies for complex business rules, including edge cases around split-tier earning, return adjustments, forward offsets, delegate activity aggregation, and high system reliability.
• Implementing security and audit concerns: role-based access, 2FA for redemption flows, full audit trails for all state changes.
• Designing and involving yourself in CI/CD and automated testing for high system reliability.
• Providing expert feedback that improves the overall delivery of work and ensuring a high standard of quality across the project.
• Using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor to accelerate delivery while maintaining code quality and architectural standards.
• Business Alignment: 
• Clarifying strategic outcomes and influencing roadmaps and projects.
• Identifying, suggesting, and driving improvements in your customers' end-to-end experience.
• Aiding in estimating work for new business with more unknowns and coaching others in estimation best practices. 
• Interacting with Others: 
• Coordinating across the entire company.
• Influencing the entire organization to make changes to support your work.
• Advising teams across the company.
• Autonomy & Ambiguity: 
• Designing a long-term roadmap with no direction. 
• Translating customer and business needs and strategic direction into projects and consistently simplifying high-complexity situations.
• Coaching and mentoring others in tackling ambiguity.
• Problem-Solving:
• Decomposing strategic direction into projects:
•  Planning, communicating, and executing to solve our most challenging problems.
• Ensuring alignment with long-term objectives, fostering a culture of informed decision-making and innovation.
• Anticipating most risks and driving simplification to mitigate risks ahead of time. 
• Escalating issues while solving them in parallel ensuring others are informed.
• Leadership:
• Proposing new organization-level processes to improve key areas such as team throughput, employee happiness, or product engagement.
• Driving best practices across the organization.
• Exhibiting exceptional mentoring abilities and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement by
• identifying and nurturing potential in others 
• providing strategic guidance
• helping develop career paths for team members 
• Leading projects.
• Setting the strategic direction for projects or areas of technology, leading multiple project teams, and influencing decision-making at higher organizational levels. 
• Exhibiting strong capabilities in stakeholder management, negotiating, and problem-solving in complex scenarios. 
• Mentoring and developing other leaders within the team, fostering a culture of innovation, and contributing significantly to organizational goals.

Deep Expertise With:

• Java for server-side development.
• The Spring framework ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data).
• Domain-driven design principles, including bounded contexts, aggregates, and domain events.
• RESTful API design principles, including contract-first approaches and OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Event-driven and message-oriented patterns (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS) for reliable state transitions and integration.
• Integration patterns: API gateway, circuit breaker, retry/backoff, caching (Redis or similar), ETL or event-based data flows, and idempotency.
• Relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) with strong skills in schema design, query optimization, and transactional integrity; familiarity with NoSQL datastores a plus.
• Rules engine patterns or configurable business logic frameworks.
• CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar, including pipeline authoring and deployment automation.
• Containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• SCM tools such as Git.
• Observability tooling such as Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, or OpenTelemetry.
• Automated testing at multiple layers: unit (JUnit, Mockito), integration, contract testing, and scenario-based validation of business rules.

General Requirements:

• 10+ years of development experience with an emphasis on back-end development. 
• Extensive experience serving as a trusted consultant to stakeholders and cross-functional teams, providing expert guidance on backend service design, delivery, and integration.
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field or experience. 

Nice to Haves:

• Experience building loyalty, rewards, or financial calculation engines.
• Experience building BFF or API aggregation layers for mobile applications.
• Familiarity with Salesforce CRM, Commerce Cloud, or Identity integration patterns.
• Experience with POS system integration and transaction-level data processing.
• Background in fintech, payments, or systems where auditability and financial accuracy are critical.
• Experience modeling complex account hierarchies (parent-child organizations, delegate/role structures).
• Experience with feature flagging and progressive rollout.
• Experience working alongside mobile teams to negotiate and iterate on API contracts.

A Bit More Info:

Minimum Base Compensation: $170,000

This is a full-time position.

Stable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.

Minimal travel is associated with this role.

Our generous total compensation package includes:

• Company-subsidized health, vision, and dental plan premium options beginning on the first day of employment
• 401k with above-average company matching 
• Fully paid Group Life, Short and Long Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
• Optional Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account participation
• Voluntary Life, Critical Illness, and Accident insurance
• EAP and Health Advocacy program available at no cost to employees and their dependents
• $3000+ annual industry educational budget 
• Paid time off and paid holidays 

*Note – We are not sponsoring employment visas at this time. If you are currently in possession of an employment visa, it will need to be effective for at least 3 years from the date of your application for your candidacy for employment to be considered.

Stable Kernel’s culture is inclusive and expansive. We celebrate diversity in its many glorious forms and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender role orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

However, we will discriminate against those unwilling to comply with the practice of our company values:

• we work with integrity always
• we respect our work and each other
• we are dedicated to life-long learning and sharing
• we stay hungry for new challenges

If you are like-minded in this regard, we hope you will apply. We look forward to meeting you.

About the Company:

Stable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises to move their business forward. We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

We’re a privately held, Great Place to Work Certified Company™ with a multi-award-winning culture and an impressive 10-plus-year trajectory of sustainable growth. At Stable Kernel, we support our employees in ways that help them do some of the best work of their lives.

About the Role:

As a Stable Kernel Principal Software Engineer, you play an essential role in setting our portfolio of world-class clients up for success through the development and delivery of their most innovative, transformational initiatives. You will collaborate daily with other engineers and product team members, make decisions that influence the path of a product roadmap, leverage software development best practices, and become a more well-rounded engineer as you learn new technologies. Your knowledgeable practice, reliability, and consultative nature make you an engineer that stakeholders and teammates trust.

Principal Software Engineers may be classified as individual contributors or people managers with individual contributor responsibilities.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Technical Impact: 
• Designing and implementing scalable, maintainable React Native components and screen flows that serve both iOS and Android from a shared codebase.
• Establishing and evolving the front-end architecture, including state management patterns, navigation structure, and shared component libraries.
• Defining and enforcing code quality standards through pull request reviews, linting rules, and automated checks.
• Building and maintaining integrations with RESTful APIs and backend-for-frontend (BFF) services, including error handling, caching, and offline-resilient patterns.
• Collaborating with design to implement UIs, animations, and interaction patterns that feel native on both platforms.
• Designing test strategies and owning CI/CD pipeline reliability for mobile builds, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, including render optimization, memory management, and startup time improvements.
• Providing expert feedback that improves the overall delivery of work.
• Ensuring a high standard of quality across the project.
• Using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor to accelerate delivery while maintaining code quality and architectural standards.
• Business Alignment: 
• Clarifying strategic outcomes and influencing roadmaps and projects.
• Identifying, suggesting, and driving improvements in your customers' end-to-end experience.
• Aiding in estimating work for new business with more unknowns and coaching others in estimation best practices. 
• Interacting with Others: 
• Coordinating across the entire company.
• Influencing the entire organization to make changes to support your work.
• Advising teams across the company.
• Autonomy & Ambiguity: 
• Designing a long-term roadmap with no direction. 
• Translating customer and business needs and strategic direction into projects and consistently simplifying high-complexity situations.
• Coaching and mentoring others in tackling ambiguity.
• Problem-Solving:
• Decomposing strategic direction into projects:
•  Planning, communicating, and executing to solve our most challenging problems.
• Ensuring alignment with long-term objectives, fostering a culture of informed decision-making and innovation.
• Anticipating most risks and driving simplification to mitigate risks ahead of time. 
• Escalating issues while solving them in parallel ensuring others are informed.
• Leadership:
• Proposing new organization-level processes to improve key areas such as team throughput, employee happiness, or product engagement.
• Driving best practices across the organization.
• Exhibiting exceptional mentoring abilities and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement by
• identifying and nurturing potential in others 
• providing strategic guidance
• helping develop career paths for team members 
• Leading projects.
• Setting the strategic direction for projects or areas of technology, leading multiple project teams, and influencing decision-making at higher organizational levels. 
• Exhibiting strong capabilities in stakeholder management, negotiating, and problem-solving in complex scenarios. 
• Mentoring and developing other leaders within the team, fostering a culture of innovation, and contributing significantly to organizational goals.

Deep Expertise With:

• React Native and the React ecosystem (hooks, context, component lifecycle).
• TypeScript for type-safe front-end development.
• Native mobile development fundamentals on iOS (Swift/Objective-C) and Android (Kotlin/Java), sufficient to debug bridge issues, write native modules, and review platform-specific behavior.
• State management approaches such as Redux, Zustand, or React Context, with an understanding of when each is appropriate.
• Navigation libraries such as React Navigation.
• Mobile CI/CD pipelines, including build signing, device testing, and app distribution (e.g., Fastlane, Bitrise, Jenkins, or similar).
• SCM tools such as Git, including branching strategies suited to mobile release cadences.
• Automated testing frameworks such as Jest, React Native Testing Library, and Detox or Appium for end-to-end tests.
• Experience implementing deep linking and universal links.
• App store submission processes and over-the-air update mechanisms (e.g., CodePush or EAS Updates).
• Accessibility standards for mobile (VoiceOver, TalkBack) and responsive layout patterns.

General Requirements:

• 10+ years of development experience with an emphasis on React Native development. 
• Extensive experience serving as a trusted consultant to stakeholders and cross-functional teams, providing expert guidance on backend service design, delivery, and integration.
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field or experience. 

Nice to Haves:

• Familiarity with feature flagging and progressive rollout tools such as LaunchDarkly or similar.
• Experience with Expo and EAS tooling for managed React Native builds, updates, and distribution.
• Experience with TanStack Query (React Query) for server-state management, caching, and data synchronization patterns.
• Experience integrating analytics and instrumentation SDKs (e.g., Firebase, Amplitude).
• Exposure to GraphQL or BFF patterns in a mobile context.
• Experience working with design systems or shared component libraries across multiple teams.

A Bit More Info:

Minimum Base Compensation: $170,000

This is a full-time position.

Stable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.

Minimal travel is associated with this role.

Our generous total compensation package includes:

• Company-subsidized health, vision, and dental plan premium options beginning on the first day of employment
• 401k with above-average company matching 
• Fully paid Group Life, Short and Long Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
• Optional Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account participation
• Voluntary Life, Critical Illness, and Accident insurance
• EAP and Health Advocacy program available at no cost to employees and their dependents
• $3000+ annual industry educational budget 
• Paid time off and paid holidays 

*Note – We are not sponsoring employment visas at this time. If you are currently in possession of an employment visa, it will need to be effective for at least 3 years from the date of your application for your candidacy for employment to be considered.

Stable Kernel’s culture is inclusive and expansive. We celebrate diversity in its many glorious forms and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender role orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

However, we will discriminate against those unwilling to comply with the practice of our company values:

• we work with integrity always
• we respect our work and each other
• we are dedicated to life-long learning and sharing
• we stay hungry for new challenges

If you are like-minded in this regard, we hope you will apply. We look forward to meeting you.