Principal Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Serve as a hands-on software engineering advisor to IT executives
• Advise SVP and executive technology leaders on engineering strategy, platform health, delivery risks, architectural decisions, and modernization opportunities
• Translate complex software engineering issues into clear business, risk, funding, and execution recommendations
• Act as a player by actively building and improving software
• Personally contribute to critical engineering work by designing, coding, testing, reviewing, and deploying capabilities across enterprise platforms, integration layers, and production systems
• Use modern development practices, including agentic AI-enabled coding where appropriate, to accelerate delivery and improve system reliability
• Coach developers and raise engineering standards
• Mentor associate engineers, contractors, and delivery teams through code reviews, pairing, technical design discussions, and best-practice coaching
• Set expectations for clean code, small pull requests, meaningful commits, automated testing, secure coding, and efficient delivery practices
• Drive engineering alignment across complex delivery teams
• Coordinate engineering outcomes across matrixed internal teams, vendors, architects, product owners, and business partners
• Ensure solutions are technically sound, architecturally consistent, secure, scalable, and aligned to enterprise standards and long-term platform strategy
• Lead platform roadmap, technical investment, and transformation discipline
• Partner with business and IT leadership to define the product/platform roadmap, identify funding needs, prioritize engineering investments, and challenge decisions that create technical debt, operational risk, or misalignment with enterprise transformation goals
• Exercise the judgment and credibility to say "no" when needed to protect long-term platform health

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field
• 10 or more years of technical experience
• 2
• 5 years of project/people leadership
• Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences
• 1+ years exp building and optimizing AI-driven pipelines

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term and long-term disability
• life insurance and many other opportunities