Software Engineer III / Sr. Software Engineer I

Principal Financial Group•Raleigh, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for an Experienced Software Engineer to join our Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) business. In this role, you’ll contribute to the modernization of our retirement platforms by building scalable services, enabling complex system integrations, and delivering high-quality solutions that support our long-term technology strategy. You will work within a highly integrated ecosystem that includes internal platforms, external solutions, and SaaS enterprise platforms requiring strong engineering fundamentals and a focus on reliable, well-defined system interactions. You’ll have the opportunity to design, build, and support scalable, reliable, and performant applications that enable core business capabilities, develop and maintain integrations across APIs, file-based interfaces, and batch processing patterns, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure systems integrate effectively and meet shared objectives. You will also contribute to platform modernization efforts by building new capabilities and enabling connectivity across evolving systems, participate in technical design discussions, helping define interface contracts, data exchanges, and integration patterns, and make well-reasoned technical decisions by evaluating tradeoffs across performance, scalability, and maintainability. Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements such as performance, security, scalability, and resiliency, advocate for engineering best practices, including code quality, automated testing, and delivery discipline, and troubleshoot integration and production issues, with a focus on reliability, traceability, and operational stability. Take ownership of features of increasing complexity, driving them from design through delivery in collaboration with the team, and work cross-functionally to deliver outcomes in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Requirements

Associate's or Bachelor's degree with a preference in a science, technology, engineering, or math related field or equivalent work experience
3+ years of professional software development experience
2+ years of AWS experience is required.
2+ years of vendor integration experience is required.
Must have the desire to learn new technology and continuously grow.
Ability to work on cross-functional teams and collaborate with both IT and non-IT partners

Nice To Haves

Python and Java
Enterprise level configure and code SaaS platforms (Salesforce, ServiceNow, IBM Business Automation Workflow, or equivalent)

Responsibilities

Design, build, and support scalable, reliable, and performant applications that enable core business capabilities
Develop and maintain integrations across APIs, file-based interfaces, and batch processing patterns
Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure systems integrate effectively and meet shared objectives
Contribute to platform modernization efforts by building new capabilities and enabling connectivity across evolving systems
Participate in technical design discussions, helping define interface contracts, data exchanges, and integration patterns
Make well-reasoned technical decisions by evaluating tradeoffs across performance, scalability, and maintainability
Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements such as performance, security, scalability, and resiliency
Advocate for engineering best practices, including code quality, automated testing, and delivery discipline
Troubleshoot integration and production issues, with a focus on reliability, traceability, and operational stability
Take ownership of features of increasing complexity, driving them from design through delivery in collaboration with the team
Work cross-functionally to deliver outcomes in a fast-paced, evolving environment
May be required to provide on-call support