Principal Software Developer

Berkshire Hathaway Direct Insurance Company•Jenkins Township, PA

2d•$120,000 - $155,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BHDIC is expanding its team to develop a cloud-first, API-driven insurance platform that enables customers to purchase policies online. The Principal Software Developer works as both a senior technical expert and an individual contributor, contributing code while leading design, planning, and resolution of roadblocks. The role includes mentoring and guiding developers, building domain expertise, and serving as a technical subject matter expert with broad influence across projects and teams. This is a hybrid remote position requiring onsite presence at the Pittston, Pennsylvania office at least once every other month. Candidates must live within reasonable driving distance of either the Pittston, PA, or Omaha, NE office for onsite meetings as needed at the local office. Occasional travel to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA area is required for strategy meetings several times per year. Working hours are based on Eastern US time.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent working experience.
At least 10 years of experience as a software developer, primarily using C#.
Excellent programming, debugging, and troubleshooting skills with C# and .NET.
At least 3 years of experience contributing in a senior technical role.
Enterprise-level system architecture experience, including designing and delivering RESTful APIs, integrations, and complex business processes.
Enterprise-level design and configuration experience with cloud services, including serverless services, data storage, messaging, and logging; Azure is preferred.
Experience designing and implementing both monolithic and microservice architectures.
Experience designing reliable, performant data storage solutions and schemas using cloud technologies, including SQL databases, document databases, and unstructured data.
Experience creating CI/CD pipelines that support Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Strong verbal and written communication, collaboration, and attention to detail.
Experience working on large software development projects while collaborating across multiple agile teams.
Must live within reasonable driving distance of either the Pittston, PA, or Omaha, NE BHDIC office for required onsite meetings.

Nice To Haves

Commercial property and casualty insurance experience.
Practical working knowledge of ASP.NET MVC and .NET Core.
Experience with TypeScript and single-page application frameworks such as Angular or React.

Responsibilities

Contribute as a senior technical resource on a cross-functional agile team with developers, quality assurance staff, and business analysts.
Serve as the technical subject matter expert for a platform domain.
Guide and mentor team members through pair programming, code reviews, demonstrations, and group or one-on-one coaching.
Design system features that meet business objectives and fit into the enterprise platform ecosystem.
Contribute to platform design decisions across teams.
Collaborate with the Product team to clarify requirements and meet short- and long-term business objectives.
Follow department-wide technical, process, and quality standards and contribute to their improvement.
Lead the creation of technical documentation and content to transfer knowledge across the team.
Deliver regular code contributions aligned with user stories and sprint goals.
Guide the team on unit testing and collaborate with QA to ensure successful functional and regression testing of features.
Ensure the team achieves system performance goals.
Promote a security-first mindset within the team.
Take ownership of problems and solutions and proactively work to ensure success.
Apply innovative problem-solving skills.
Travel occasionally to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA area for strategy meetings.

Benefits

Medical insurance, including PPO and HDHP plans.
Vision insurance.
Disability insurance.
Life insurance.
Enhanced dental plan with orthodontia coverage, in addition to a standard plan.
Generous PTO plan for benefit-time-eligible employees.
Paid company holidays and four floating holidays.
Paid parental leave.
Employee Retirement Savings Plan/401(k) with company match and immediate vesting.
Education Assistance Program with 100% upfront tuition reimbursement after six months of service for approved degree programs.
Service Recognition Program providing a monetary award for a vacation every five years of employment.
Wellness initiatives, including fitness center and Weight Watchers reimbursement programs.
Voluntary accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity benefits.
Employee discount and rewards program for travel, tickets, electronics, home, and more.