Principal Software Developer

About the Role

Key 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 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, develop solutions, and demonstrate their impact through data at scale
• Work across the stack to solve problems independently without reliance on other teams or engineers
• 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 experience in Java and/or Python
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in designing system architecture, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
• Experience designing non-trivial distributed multi-tier systems, including storage, caching, and application layers, with understanding of failure modes and system transformation patterns
• Experience with Microservice Architecture, especially with high throughput and low-latency systems
• Experience working with complex system migrations involving multiple phases such as dark reads/writes and light reads/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
• Ability to work remotely with some travel to DC (approx. 10-25%)

Nice to Have

• Proficiency in Python/Java or similar language
• Experience with performance tuning
• Experience with system bottleneck identification and resolution

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related professional experience
• Experience with JavaScript, Microservices Architecture, RESTful Web Services, Spring Boot
• No certifications required

Benefits & Perks

• Medical plan options including Health Savings Accounts
• Dental and vision plans
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible work weeks where possible
• Paid time off including vacation, sick, personal, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
• 15 days of paid leave per year plus 10 paid holidays
• Paid Family Leave providing up to 160 hours in a rolling 12-month period
• Disability benefits, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel insurance