Principal Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Senior technical leader role shaping AI-native technology platforms
• Hands-on architecture, modernization, and delivery leadership
• Focus on scalable, secure, resilient systems
• Hybrid work; travel up to 10%

Description

The Principal Software Engineer provides architectural direction and personally tackles the hardest engineering problems in an AI-native world. You will modernize legacy platforms toward cloud-native, API-first, AI-enabled architectures, and lead efforts to reduce technical debt and performance bottlenecks. The role partners with Product and Engineering leadership to ensure delivered solutions create real customer value.

Responsibilities

• Design and guide scalable, secure, resilient architectures while balancing speed, quality, and long-term sustainability
• Lead modernization of legacy platforms to cloud-native, API-first, AI-enabled architectures
• Identify and remediate technical debt, architectural risk, and performance bottlenecks
• Evaluate emerging technologies via hands-on experiments and proofs of concept
• Stay hands-on in design, implementation, prototyping, and debugging for complex problems
• Build reference implementations, reusable components, and shared frameworks
• Own technical outcomes with high standards for security, performance, reliability, and observability
• Define engineering standards and design principles; lead design reviews
• Mentor senior engineers, architects, and emerging technical leaders
• Influence cross-team decisions without direct authority; partner with Product, Architecture, and Security

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering with deep expertise in at least one of: Java, C#/.NET, Node.js/JavaScript, or Python
• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale enterprise systems grounded in architecture, distributed systems, and APIs
• Significant experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing direction across multiple teams
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and improving team workflows via automation
• Production experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental plans
• Life and AD&D; Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Pension Plan with employer match
• 401(k) retirement savings with employer match
• Flexible First work environment (hybrid/remote options)
• Parental leave and adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and employee/family assistance support
• Education assistance and legal assistance
• Bonus programs (VIP and quarterly plans)