Software Engineer II (Des Moines, iA; Charlotte, NC, Raleigh, NC)

Principal Financial Group • Raleigh, NC

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Software Engineer II at Principal, you’ll work with engineers to help lead our efforts to continue modernizing our technology and to enable great solutions for our customers! Our Technology Community has multiple openings in different lines of business such as Principal Asset Management, Retirement & Income Solutions, Benefits & Protection and SCBU Enablement. In this role you’ll join our community of over 4,000 engineers and help to build things people love. Our goal is to enhance our customer experience and keep them at the center of our work. Technologies used here at Principal include: AWS, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET, Salesforce (Apex, Lightning), mainframe, distributed systems, JavaScript, SQL, Mulesoft, and many more. Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years.

Requirements

• An Associate's or Bachelor's degree with a preference in a science, technology, engineering, or math related field or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years software engineering experience
• Excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills
• The desire to learn new technology and continuously grow

Nice To Haves

• Cloud platforms experience (we use AWS, but open to others)
• Development practices including TDD, CI, and pair programming
• DevOps
• May be required to provide on-call support

Responsibilities

• Develop high quality applications for our customers
• Identify and propose strategies around technical problems affecting the business, communicate standards, and get consensus on solutions
• Work closely within your engineering team, architecture, and business partners to resolve how to make our software even better
• Take on tasks of increasing complexity, learn quickly, and make steady progress to make improvements based on partner feedback
• Solve interesting and complex problems to create a positive customer experience
• Experiment with new tools and practices to deliver business value in an agile organization
• Continuously improve both yourself and the systems you are working on
• Understand how work fits into the larger strategy
• Actively participate with team during pairing, mobbing, and design

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness.
• Pension Eligible
• Total rewards approach that pays you fairly for your contributions and helps you save enough, protect enough, and have enough
• Opportunity to do challenging and exciting work, continuously learn, and try new things.
• Comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree