
Principal Software Engineer
- Christiansburg, VA
- $112,000-152,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leading the design, development, and maintenance of internal-use and customer-facing software solutions
- Ensuring scalability and adherence to requirements
- Setting the technical direction for projects
- Including architectural vision, technology choices, and best practices to create scalable, reliable solutions designed to simplify and streamline core business functions
- Partnering with product, UX, and DevOps teams to translate requirements into clear technical specifications and ensure alignment throughout the development process
- Utilizing an iterative and incremental design approach to provide solutions that address immediate needs while maintaining adaptability for a more robust long-term solution
- Serving as a subject-matter expert and hands-on mentor to senior and mid-level engineers
- Identifying opportunities for innovation in architecture, tooling, or process and drive adoption within the team
- Setting and enforce best practices in coding, testing, CI/CD, and observability.
- Completion of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or experience in lieu of degree
- At least 12 years of directly related experience including at least 3 years of principal or staff-level engineering
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Experience with Object Oriented development (C#, Java, C++, Python, etc.)
- Working knowledge of DevOps or systems administration
- Continuous integration/deployment experience
- Proven experience leveraging strategic vision with strong technical expertise to design and deliver scalable, high-performance software solutions.
- Deep understanding of system design, database, distributed systems, and cloud provider (AWS, Azure)
- Significant experience in C#/.Net development including Blazor Server and other object-oriented languages (Java, Python, etc.)
- Experience leading teams through transitions to modern architectures or platforms (e.g. - monolith to microservices) is a plus
- Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).