Principal Software Engineer (Remote)

About the position

The Principal Software Engineer is a technical expert with extensive knowledge and capabilities spanning platforms, frameworks, and languages. They are accountable to the technical health of a product, project, services, or technical domain. This includes defining technical solutions to business problems and to lead the effort to research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the product development life cycle. The Principal Software Engineer also defines and implements best practices, standards and processes for development, analysis, and maintenance of software applications. This includes processes and standards on writing, coding, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the research, identification, and analysis of business problems to create technical design meeting customer and stakeholder expectations for new or existing software applications.
• Identify risk and define mitigation plans, drive software engineering plans, and lead the effort in performing software improvements and upgrades.
• Create well architected designs and implemented code to enhance functionality and performance of software applications and lead software testing on new and existing programs for the purposes of ensuring customer health.
• Collaborate with architects and other technologists to develop and maintain code quality and architecture standards.
• Drive the definition of software development plans, including scoping, estimates, and implementation.
• Develop standards and reusable process for all software engineering.
• Provide technical advice, instruction, and training to software engineers with less experience.
• Drive product and software support effort for bugs, issues, and escalated incident tickets to resolve application and software issues.
• Collaborate with peers, managers, stakeholders, and customers to resolve problems with software products or company software systems.
• Deploy software through environments to production upon completion of development, testing, and documentation.
• Conduct code reviews based on team's defined best practices.
• Responsible for leading the technical health of a software area including engineering approaches, designs, architecture, and runtime operations.
• Mentor software team members on technical concepts.
• Introduce new technology to solve business problems and create relevant prototypes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related field or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of software development experience required. Extensive experience in all aspects of software development and product life cycles
• Knowledge of advanced features of Angular (version 17+), Signals, RxJS
• Experience with Nx Workspace and the Nx Angular plugin, Library projects, Custom Generators and Executors, Nx Release (Nx JS plugin)
• Experience using and integrating UI Control Suites (i.e., themes, CSS, etc)
• Deep knowledge of frontend testing technologies/strategies, Jest, Angular Testing Library
• Typescript experience
• Monorepo experience
• MFE experience with Angular (Module Federation)
• Excellent understanding and proven experience of identifying and implementing software development best practices across teams
• Proven experience in object-oriented programming, additional programming approaches, and in leveraging multiple development technologies with proven ability to maintain software products written in different languages and platforms
• Extensive database (relational and hierarchical) and operating systems experience
• Extensive experience in defining and driving an architecture for products, systems, or infrastructure
• Extensive experience using source code management system
• Ability to analyze across a range of platforms and applications and see interconnections between organizational systems.
• Experience with product planning and developing business cases and return on investment analyses

Nice-to-haves

• Attendance and speaking at industry events.
• Office environment - either in Patterson facility or at home/remote location
• Travel to vendor and corporate sites is periodically required (Quarterly or so)
• Periodic on call rotations and available outside of normal business hours on evenings and weekends during critical production release or issue escalation periods

Benefits

• The potential compensation range for this role is $140,000 - $180,000
• The final offer amount could exceed this range, based on various factors such as candidate location (geographical labor market), experience, and skills.