Responsibilities

What You'll do

As a Lead Software Engineer at Principal Financial Group, you will be at the forefront of crafting innovative and high-performance software solutions. Your role will involve crafting, developing, and implementing software that drives our products. You will work in close collaboration with our product development team to understand user needs and translate them into flawless technical specifications. Ensuring our software products are scalable, reliable, and efficient will be key to your success.

You'll have opportunity to:

- Designing and implementing cloud applications using AWS services, Typescript and Java
- Work with architect for scalable and high performance solutions that meet business requirements.
- Collaborate closely with product manager, architects and engineers.
- Provide technical guidance and fostering culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Implement engineering best practices related to design, coding standards and deployment process.
- Innovation and technical initiatives to improve system reliability, performance and scalability.
- Strong knowledge on Java Development/Versioning Tools like RAD/Git/Maven.
- Installation, Configuration and Integration of tools for creating the required development environment.
- Experience on handling Install failures, install updates, supporting local issues is a plus.
- Understanding of application server technology.
- Exposure to Atlassian Tools like JIRA/Confluence.
- Good English communication and exposure to global working environment.
- Abilities like problem solving, analytical, time management, planning & decision making, self-motivated, facilitate collaborate
- Develop strong understanding of the business.
- Develop and support decision making , good Business communication skills across multiple levels.
- Ability to provide direction and guidance to junior team members.
- Consistently raises the bar by going beyond day-to-day performance expectations.
- Develop planning/organizational, problem-solving, analytical, time management, and decision making skills.

Qualifications





Who You are:We are looking for talented experienced Lead software engineer with expertise in AWS cloud services, Typescript and Java development for our engineering team.

Experience: 6 to 9 years

Education:

- Bachelor’s(Engineering)/Master’s in computer science or a related field.

- Mandatory Skills:
- 6+ years of software development experiences with focus on AWS cloud development and distributed applications development with Java & J2EE.
- 2+ years of experience in AWS development using typescript. If not worked on typescript, willing to learn typescript because as per Principal standards typescript is the preferred language for AWS development.
- Hands on experience designing and deploying applications on AWS cloud infrastructure (e.g EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Fargate etc)
- Hands on experience in Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring boot development and good understanding of serverless computing.
- Experience with REST API and Java Shared Libraries.

Communication

- Able to clearly communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders as well as communicate business objectives to the technical team and get buy-in.
- Communicate issues early to help course-correct. Communicate effectively across business unit and IT as necessary.

Technical Abilities

- Understands and makes well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs.
- Ability to dig into code they are unfamiliar with and solve the business issue.
- Look to improve the health of your code/system every time you touch it.
- Identifies problems/risks of own work and others.
- Identifies and proactively tackles technical debt before it grows into debt that requires significant up-front work to resolve.




- Contributing to existing enterprise/innersource solutions.
- Leads the team in proactively establishing controls and ensures system is secure and meets policy and regulatory requirements during development. Includes leading the team in risk remediation as a result of risk assessments.

Solution Design & Architecture

- Participates in technical design of features. Focus on attaining expertise in more technical areas.

Execution

- Persistent in the face of roadblocks; dispatches them efficiently, pulling in others as necessary.
- Drive the collaboration with teammates (pairing/mobbing).

Strategy

- Research recent IT developments. Stay current and engaged on industry trends. Consult with business partners on future technical trends/directions to meet business strategy initiatives.

Leadership

- Provide mentoring via pairing, design and code review. Contribute frequently to demos, CoPs, etc.
- Influences direction of team.
- Beginning to demonstrate ability to influence up.
- Proactively identify problems with an ask (lack of clarity, inconsistencies, technical limitations) for own and adjacent work and collaborate with other parties to resolve them.
- Actively contribute to internal communities.

- Good to have:

- AWS Certified Developer or AWS certified solutions architect is plus.

Additional Information

Our Engineering Culture

In our Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we've nurtured a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we collaborate closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs. Collaboration is ingrained into every aspect of our work – from the products we develop to the world-class service we offer.

We are motivated by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is crucial to crafting the finest products and experiences for our customers. Come join us and become a part of a highly ambitious team dedicated to delivering impeccable solutions!

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