Principal Software Developer - Python/AWS

$170,800 - $284,600/Yr

LPL Financial - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Jersey City, NJ

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

LPL Financial is seeking a skilled Principal Software Developer to lead the development of various projects utilizing cutting-edge technology. This role involves working in a fast-paced environment, mentoring a team of developers, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions for both internal and external customers. The position emphasizes collaboration across business units and adherence to software development best practices, with a focus on application resiliency, scalability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor and inspire a dedicated team of onshore and offshore developers.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and deliver frequent value to production.
• Leverage technical expertise to implement software development best practices.
• Implement application resiliency, scalability, and performance design.
• Collaborate across business units and product teams to build product vision and deliver business values.
• Work with quality assurance teams and DevOps to ensure adherence to SDLC processes.
• Manage day-to-day activities of the team using Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Develop technical documentation to define system components and workflows.

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years of extensive design and implementation of complex systems in Web, Python or Java and web services (REST/SOAP).
• 2-3 years experience in deploying, operating, and managing services in AWS.
• 5+ years of experience with strong understanding of SOA principles and design patterns.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as AngularJS (ideally version 8+), HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, Bootstrap, and JSON.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in SQL server procedures, views, indexes, performance tuning, and Source Control such as GIT or TFS.
• CI/CD experience with TeamCity/Octopus.

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Risk management and contingency planning skills.
• Innovative, self-driven, and quick learner of latest technologies.
• Experience writing unit tests using technologies like VS Tests, NUnit, JUnit, MUnit, Jasmin/Karma.
• Hands-on experience implementing self-service portals.
• Experience developing customer service applications.
• Good sense for Code Architecture and Design Principles.

Benefits

• Stock options
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• 401(k) matching
• Volunteer time off