Principal Software Engineer – OHS TTA Hub

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

📋 Description

• Develop and uphold the technical roadmap and architecture for the TTA Hub.

• Set engineering standards, code quality practices, architectural principles, and criteria for technical design reviews.

• Oversee intricate architectural and technical decisions throughout the application.

• Offer technical direction and support to the software engineering team.

• Design robust cloud-native services, data flows, integration boundaries, and enhancements for capacity.

• Evaluate and prototype potential technologies and framework upgrades.

• Analyze security, accessibility, performance, migration, licensing, and operational impacts prior to recommending changes.

• Provide technical leadership in Node.js/TypeScript, React, relational databases, cloud infrastructure, and integrations.

• Collaborate with software engineering, DevOps, data, UX, QA, and security teams.

• Assist engineering teams in resolving production issues, architectural flaws, performance challenges, and technical debt.

• Act as incident commander during major production outages and data integrity incidents.

• Manage technical responses, restoration efforts, root cause analyses, and remediation processes.

• Lead the transfer of technical knowledge during the transition of the existing TTA Hub environment.

• Maintain a record of knowledge transfer to ensure continuity of operations.

• Advocate for maintainable engineering practices, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in software engineering.

• At least five (5) years of experience in establishing architecture or technical standards for production distributed systems.

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

• Proven experience in designing and supporting enterprise or distributed production systems.

• Extensive experience with cloud-native application architecture and modern web application development.

• Practical technical expertise in Node.js/TypeScript and React.

• Strong understanding of relational databases and application data architecture.

• Experience in setting software architecture, engineering standards, code-quality practices, and technical design criteria.

• Experience in evaluating technology options and architectural alternatives considering security, performance, maintainability, accessibility, operational, and migration factors.

• Proven technical leadership skills, including the capability to guide engineers through complex architectural and design decisions.

• Experience in diagnosing and leading recovery from significant production incidents or system failures.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• U.S. citizenship is required.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and secure a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting Federal digital services or software development programs.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting Federal Authorization to Operate (ATO) activities.

• Preferred: Experience with cloud.gov or Cloud Foundry environments.

• Preferred: Experience in modernizing or enhancing established or legacy production applications while ensuring operational continuity.

• Preferred: Familiarity with open-source software licensing and its implications for Federal technology environments.

• Preferred: Experience in leading technical transition and knowledge transfer activities when taking over an existing production application.

• Preferred: Experience in providing architectural leadership across multidisciplinary Agile software development teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Full-time schedule with core hours aligned to Eastern Time.

• Occasional travel may be necessary.

• Equal Employment Opportunity.