Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
The Principal Software Engineer for the Developer Experience team drives the strategy, design, and implementation of solutions that optimize how developers build, test, and deliver software at isolved. This role is equal parts hands-on engineering and technical leadership - building internal tools, improving CI/CD pipelines, reducing friction in the development lifecycle, and establishing best practices that scale across the engineering organization. The successful candidate will own and evolve isolved's internal developer platform, including build systems, development environments, testing infrastructure, and automation tooling. They will partner closely with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks, measure developer productivity, and deliver high-impact improvements that reduce cycle time and cognitive overhead. This role provides frequent technical guidance and mentorship to engineers across the organization, influencing architecture decisions and championing engineering excellence.
Requirements
- 5 years developing web applications
- 2 years developing cloud native applications.
- Ability to work independently to research and solve complex problems.
- Strong skills in:
- Azure
- Microservice Architecture
- C#
- SQL
- Unit Testing
- .NET
- Experience with:
- NET / ASP.NET Core WebAPI
- Javascript
- Angular
- SOLID principles
Nice To Haves
- Knockout
- Azure CosmosDB or other NoSQL database
- Azure Container Apps
- Pub/Sub and asynchronous messaging
- Docker
- MVVM
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Designing and building internal developer tools and platforms that improve day-to-day engineering workflows
- Optimizing CI/CD pipelines, build performance, and deployment reliability
- Defining and tracking developer experience metrics (build times, deployment frequency, developer satisfaction) to guide investment decisions
- Evaluating and integrating AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering productivity
- Establishing standards and patterns for code quality, testing, and infrastructure-as-code
- Partnering with architecture, platform, and product teams to ensure developer tooling aligns with organizational direction
- Mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement across the development organization
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
