Principal Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Software Engineer

• Focus: Hands-on technical leadership for AI-native enterprise platforms

• Compensation: $115,000–$150,000 + VIP bonus

Description

Lead and shape the future of technology platforms and set how software is built in an AI-native world. You will provide architectural direction, directly solve the most complex engineering problems, and help modernization toward cloud-native, API-first, and AI-enabled architectures. You will partner with Product and Engineering leadership to deliver real customer value.

Role Responsibilities

• Design and guide scalable, secure, resilient architectures; manage tradeoffs among speed, quality, and long-term sustainability

• Lead modernization of legacy platforms toward cloud-native, API-first, and AI-enabled architectures

• Identify and address technical debt, architectural risk, and performance bottlenecks early

• Evaluate emerging technologies via hands-on experiments and proofs of concept

• Stay hands-on with design, implementation, prototyping, and debugging—owning the toughest problems

• Build reference implementations, reusable components, and shared frameworks to accelerate teams

• Own technical outcomes for security, performance, reliability, and observability

• Define engineering standards and design principles; lead design reviews and constructive debate

• Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders

• Influence decisions across teams 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

• 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 evidence of using automation to improve team work

• Production cloud experience, ideally AWS

• Strong communication across technical and non-technical audiences

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

• Ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams

• Legally authorized to work in the United States

• Travel up to 10% of the time; hybrid work arrangement acceptance

Technical Depth Areas (Examples)

• AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2), containerization, cloud-native architecture

• CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, DevSecOps

• Relational databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server; SQL development and performance tuning

• Frontend: React, Angular

• Modernization of large-scale legacy applications

• Applied AI: LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, agentic workflows

• Platform engineering: shared services, internal platforms, developer productivity tools

• Regulated environments: sensitive customer data and compliance requirements

Benefits

• Medical, vision & dental plans

• Life and AD&D

• Short Term and Long Term Disability

• Pension Plan & employer match

• Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave

• EFAP (Employee and Family Assistance Program)

• Education assistance; Employee Referral and Internal Recognition programs

• Flexible hybrid/flexible-first work environment options

US benefits (as listed): PPO & high-deductible options, HSA and flexible spending accounts (Health Care FSA, Dental & Vision FSA, Dependent Care FSA, Commuter FSA), 401(k) with match, supplemental plans (pet insurance, hospital indemnity, accident insurance), parental leave & adoption assistance, EAP, education/legal assistance, tuition reimbursement, wellness, and commuter benefits (Denver).

Other Notes

• Drug-free workplace with preemployment drug and background screenings

• At-will employment relationship statement

• Equal employment opportunity statement applies