Principal Software Engineer

TriNet • Atlanta, GA

149d • $140,600 - $309,200

About The Position

The Principal Software Engineer will architect, innovate and create multi-disciplinary technical and functional solutions to complex business problems. This position provides technical leadership to development and design teams and oversees all technical aspects of projects. This candidate must design and implement reusable services that are highly scalable, secure, performant, and low cost to maintain and operate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent experience preferred
• Typically 12+ years of hands-on object-oriented programming in Java or Python and/or Javascript (UI) frameworks
• Experience in Architecting and Designing software solutions for enterprise-wide web applications

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with cloud native CI/CD tools and technologies
• Experience with micro service architecture, end-to-end UI/API integration, and knowledge of API protocols like REST, gRPC, and graphQL
• Strong problem solving skills and solutioning complex problems
• Experience in drafting best coding practices and designing highly scalable, secure, and easy to maintain software solutions
• Solid analytical skills with the ability to refine strategic, technical roadmaps and synthesizing to make improvements and recommendations
• Ability to continuously drive results, display a high level of confidence, inspire and motivate team performance
• Able to architect, design, review and document high level and detail solutions
• Provide hands-on support in implementing critical components across the entire stack, from front-end, middle-tier, back-end, infrastructure and data stores to automate and scale
• Experience in building large scale platforms that deal with real-time complex transactions, and ability to troubleshoot distributed systems
• Knowledge of core cloud services and serverless approaches, and infrastructure as a code
• Strong understanding of Application Security best practices and Security by design

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the planning, design and development of new software solutions
• Work closely with Product owners and other stakeholders to understand the requirements and design software solutions to meet the product requirements
• Solve complex and ambitious problems by crafting elegant and impactful solutions and generate concise and effective analysis, reports, and presentations for both internal and external customers
• Contribute to technical innovations along with defining coding standards
• Mentor and support other members of the software development team and contribute to the software development best practices
• Serve as an expert advisor to executives on the use of current and future technologies for optimal impact on current and future business strategies and results
• Lead innovation across the organization by exploring new technologies, demonstrating how to leverage those discoveries through proof of concept and incorporating them into the platform
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Comply with all policies and standards

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(K) savings plan
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Eleven (11) Company observed holidays
• PTO and a comprehensive leave program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees