Experienced Software Engineer, remote available

Responsibilities

Principal’s Individual Disability Income (IDI) area is seeking an experienced Software Engineer with an aptitude for innovation, continuous improvement and maturing modern software engineering practices. On this team, you’ll focus on our customer access and digital enablement product that is cloud hosted, along with a vendored admin platform.

Your day will be filled with:

Building and maintaining API’s and integrations to internal and external systems that support outcomes that our customers will love

Deploying in Azure CI/CD pipelines implemented with infrastructure as code

Supporting Continuous Integration (CI), and ensure adherence to CI/CD principles

Building/Maintaining engineering solutions for both front-end and back-end processes

Adhering to and maturing our engineering practices that support code quality, code coverage and secure code

Advancing our business and technology strategy through design thinking and solutions architecture

Creating a culture that seeks to continuously learn and improve

Being a change agent and mentoring with a passion for your craft

Building and maintaining strong relationships with your team members, product team and vendor partners

Qualifications

Associate's or Bachelor's degree with a preference in a science, technology, engineering, or math related field

3+ years of experience with modern programming languages and design patterns (e.g. Java, JavaScript, Python)

Passion for technology and problem solving

Ability to work on cross-functional teams and collaborate with IT and non-IT partners

Desire and ability to learn new technology and continuously grow

Additional preferred technical experience:

Experience with any Cloud Platform technology (we use MS Azure)

Working across multiple full stack technologies (e.g. React, Spring, Angular, Typescript, Java, Javascript, Python)

Building highly scalable distributed systems

Experience with testing techniques such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Experience designing and implementing full stack solutions including front-end UI components and back-end APIs

Working with databases and related technologies (DB2, SQL Server, JDBC, JPA)

Familiar with app containerization like Docker

Working knowledge of cyber security or information security

Experience deploying cloud infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and a commitment to the following Infrastructure as Code practices in day-to-day operation

Strong practical knowledge of CI/CD (e.g., Github Actions, Azure DevOps) tools and Database migrations

Additional Information

Job level

We’ll consider talent at the next level with the right experiences and skills. 

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role. (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.)

Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Global Investors positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

Experience Principal

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Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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