Principal Software Developer

About the position

We are looking for a Principal Software Developer who values writing code over documentation and shipping products over discussing roadmaps. The ideal candidate will be passionate about making a meaningful impact and proficient in programming languages such as Python or Java. This role involves working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment to deliver new features and improve the reliability of core services. The candidate will take ownership of core product problems and lead a team of developers to engineer solutions for complex user problems.

Responsibilities

• Work in a fast paced, collaborative environment where ideas are discussed and challenged openly
• Deliver new features and improve reliability of core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination
• Identify major system bottlenecks, or flaws in business logic, and proactively address them
• Take ownership over core product problems, be able to come up with your own solutions that you love and prove through data that it is impactful at scale
• Work across the stack to solve problems, there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you
• Lead a team of Developers to engineer and develop software to solve complex user problems.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Minimum of 10+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience (Java and/or Python)
• Minimum of 10+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Must have experience designing a non-trivial distributed system (multi-tier) - storage layers, caching layers, application layers, understanding of failure modes, expertise with applying a strangler-pattern to transform a system from a monolith to a microservice architecture
• Must have Microservice Architecture experience, especially with high throughput and low-latency systems
• Experience working with complex systems migration involving multiple phases with dark reads, dark writes, light reads, light writes
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C

Benefits

• Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Paid time off plans including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance