Senior Principal Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Direct software design and development efforts across various engineering teams and principal software engineers.

• Enhance delivery speed and quality by leveraging technical expertise, leadership, and effective communication of best practices.

• Act as a primary contact within a large IT portfolio to promote the learning and adoption of emerging technologies.

• Collaborate with third-party vendors to fulfill technical requirements and promote interoperability.

• Provide support to 4–6 development teams across different products and/or APIs.

• Ensure optimal resource utilization, system design, refactoring, cloud-cost optimization, and improvements to the codebase.

• Facilitate portfolio-level Principal meetings to ensure alignment, consistency, and knowledge sharing.

• Develop reusable foundational code components across the portfolio.

• Create proofs of concept using new technologies and assist in their portfolio-wide adoption.

• Oversee cloud-resource usage and identify opportunities for cost reduction.

• Tackle and resolve highly complex technical issues.

• Present at and participate in conferences while integrating new technologies and concepts.

• Offer leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports.

• Conduct annual and mid-year performance reviews, providing constructive feedback.

• Attract, retain, develop, and inspire talent.

• Define technology solutions and contribute to the development of technology roadmaps.

• Eliminate roadblocks and bottlenecks in cross-functional projects.

• Promote thought leadership, innovation, tooling adoption, and technology enablement.

• Address urgent issues and outages promptly.

• Respond to inquiries from project, product, and support teams.

• Mediate technology disputes among local teams.

• Collaborate with vendors to implement enhancements to software product features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be at least eighteen years of age.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Expertise in a minimum of two technologies utilized by THD IT.

• Familiarity with common business processes in the retail sector.

• Experience in Agile/Lean development methodologies.

• A minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.

• Preferred: 7–9 years of relevant experience.

• Preferred: One area of expertise should involve a programming language.

• Preferred: Ability to quickly grasp complex systems.

• Preferred: Mastery in designated domains.

• Preferred: Active involvement in or leadership of professional groups related to specific domains.

• Preferred: 5 years of prior leadership experience.

• Typically requires overnight travel of less than 15% of the time.

• No certifications required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work arrangement.

• Salary range of $170,000.00–$240,000.00 for specified jurisdictions.

• Typically requires overnight travel of less than 15% of the time.

• Opportunities for conference attendance and professional development.