Principal Software Engineer (Integrations)

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Principal Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. Ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility, and integrations of solutions throughout. Advances the team’s technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and raises the engineering skills within the squad. Scope of delivery is for a single squad.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application.  Maintains thoughtful application design that promotes reuse, portability, and ease of code maintenance. Builds subject matter expertise in the business area that the platform or application supports. Leads with high autonomy the execution and utilization of reference implementations, best practices, frameworks and standards, and architectural and design decisions within a squad. Notifies technical stakeholders of technical or functional changes.

Contributes to the team’s backlog to capture work that promotes the team’s mission and advances the team’s technical foundation. Partners with teammates to refine the product backlog. Partners with peer Engineers and the Product Owner to lead the team in breaking down larger bodies of work (epics) into smaller, well-understood items (stories) that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensures stories have clearly understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Communicates with key partners and dependent squads to understand scope of planned work. Partners with Product Managers in the domain to inform prioritization, identify dependencies, and influence the product roadmap. Generates stories for backlog to address performance, non-functional requirements, tech debt, modernization, and simplification.

Participates in team’s agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Helps drive collaboration within the team through practices such as pair programming. Actively seeks ways to drive continuous improvement within team. Leads team through resolution of blockers, and implementation of new practices identified as part of team’s continuous improvement goals.

Understands the team’s application architecture and how it fits into the team’s broader area as well as to the enterprise via key dependencies. Partners with Solution Architects to understand, help define, and adopt enterprise patterns and technology goals. Implements reference architectures with tool selection and implementation to deliver cost effective solutions that drive the right business value.  Helps maintain architecture documentation for relevant capabilities and systems.

Mentors individuals in the squad and peers on partner squads on technical delivery.  Works to build technical skills in teammates through direction, example, and by creating opportunities for others to learn. Participates in communities of practice on technical topics and encourages team members to join where technical interests or development opportunities align.

Partners with established vendors on implementations, modernization, capability improvements, and framework updates. Influences partners’ roadmaps. Performs technical evaluations and makes recommendations around new incoming solutions.

Establishes and manages quality standards, decisions, and implementations. Leverages automation where possible to create efficiency and reliability in delivery of software. Ensures application, performance, uptime, and scale. Defines and maintains high standards of code quality. Participates in peer code reviews to ensure quality, consistency, and knowledge transfer is part of regular delivery. Troubleshoots and fixes bugs and security risks. Identifies bottlenecks, patterns, and potential solutions related to incoming bugs and defects to improve software efficiency. Partners with peer engineers on software development lifecycle improvements. Creates and maintains support playbooks.

Leverages best practices, technologies, and instrumentation to lead the team in regular monitoring and observation of health, availability, and performance of software in production to provide appropriate application support and inform roadmap/backlog improvements. Partners with the squad and peers across squads to diagnose performance issues found in monitoring. Identifies and implements new monitori…