Principal Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and guide the strategic vision for backend and full-stack engineering practices, architecture, and technical excellence throughout the organization.

• Spearhead the creation of scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems that cater to government clients.

• Act as the technical authority and thought leader for system architecture, data design, and engineering excellence.

• Design and implement contemporary service architectures, data pipelines, and infrastructure patterns that enhance team velocity and system reliability.

• Deliver new features and enhancements to our core services, including major read/write pathways for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination.

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to balance technical feasibility with business needs, making pragmatic trade-offs that yield measurable impacts.

• Build and sustain shared libraries, service frameworks, and infrastructure patterns that promote consistency and reduce cognitive load.

• Identify opportunities to modernize our backend systems and take charge of large-scale technical initiatives aimed at improving system quality, performance, and maintainability.

• Establish and advocate for engineering best practices, including API design, data modeling, testing strategies, observability patterns, security standards, and code quality.

• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels on backend technologies, distributed systems, and create career development pathways for backend specialization.

• Influence technical decisions across teams and serve as a strategic advisor on architecture and infrastructure initiatives.

• Work across the full stack as necessary to resolve issues end-to-end – while frontend and infrastructure experience is valuable, backend systems will be your primary focus.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of relevant experience.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Proficiency in software solutions.

• Experience in solutions development.

• Must be a US Citizen and capable of obtaining and maintaining Public Trust 6C.

🏝️ Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a range of medical plan options, some featuring Health Savings Accounts.

• Dental plan options.

• A vision plan.

• A 401(k) plan allowing contributions of both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits, alongside a company match.

• To promote work/life balance, GDIT offers employees fully flexible work weeks when feasible and various paid time off plans, including vacation, sick leave, personal time, holidays, paid parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave.

• GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave annually for vacations, personal matters, and illness, plus an additional 10 paid holidays each year.

• Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s start date.

• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program offers up to 160 hours of paid leave within a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• To ensure our employees can safeguard their income, we provide or make available other benefits such as short and long-term disability, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, personal accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and business travel accident insurance.

• We routinely evaluate our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and aligned with what our employees value most.