Principal Engineer

As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you’ll play a key role in supporting our digital transformation journey by leading a team of developers to build and implement large-scale applications involving APIs and UIs that will be leveraged across the business. You’ll be both hands-on and strategic, diving deep into code to define system behavior, and establishing technical roadmaps that you and the developers on your team will act upon to deliver quality and scalable software solutions. You will also have the opportunity to directly engage with senior leadership as you communicate back and forth with the business to ensure these software solutions align with business objectives.

Responsabilities:

• Build and implement complex, large-scale applications capable of integrating with multiple internal/external systems
• Engage in and lead development efforts across the full SDLC from design and coding through to test, build, QA, deployment, and maintenance
• Leverage your experience with cloud infrastructure to build cloud-based software solutions and support the migration of applications to the cloud
• Mentor a team of software developers to build quality software solutions aligned to architecture guidelines
• Strategize and support the migration of applications to server-less architecture solutions
• Build applications capable of processing large sets of data using Spring Batch Framework with logging capabilities via the ELK stack
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate business requirements into consumable technical stories and software solutions

Functional Competencies:

• Able to provide technical excellence while embracing flexibility over building “bulletproof” systems
• Passionate learner who keeps up with evolving technologies and is willing to experiment to test what would work for the business
• Experience in or willingness to learn Agile methodology and working in a cross functional team

Technical Competencies:

• 12+ years of hands-on, full-stack development experience building end-to-end software applications utilizing the Microsoft technology stack: C#, .Net Core, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, XML, XSLT, Entity Framework, LINQ, Microservices, Single Page Applications in Angular, TFS, GIT, and AppDynamics
• Insurance background required; experience in implementing Commercial Lines platform/systems integration with Duck Creek, Insurity or similar policy admin systems is preferred
• Deep understanding of SQL Server and Cosmos DB, including database design models, database performance optimization and the ability to develop and maintain PL/SQL Packages, Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Functions in SQL Server
• Demonstrated experience developing REST based APIs using Microservice architecture, Open API Specification and/or creating specifications w/Swagger
• Knowledge of messaging queue tools such as MQ and Kafka
• Experience in containerizing applications using Docker & Kubernetes
• Previous experience with cloud solutions (Azure preferred) along with experience configuring DevOps/continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools such as Git, Jenkins and/or Maven

Education:

• Background in computer science, information systems

or

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field