Principal Software Developer

Principal Software Developer

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What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence.
What if you could have access to cutting‑edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact? If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial.

Our company is seeking a skilled principal software developer to help with the development of many projects that span different technologies and requirements. You will be working with a motivated team in a fast‑paced environment.

A principal developer's day involves leading the morning stand‑up meeting, overseeing code reviews, tackling the most complex coding tasks, and guiding the team through design and architecture discussions. They also participate in strategic meetings like sprint planning and retrospectives, monitor overall project progress, ensure smooth code deployment, and provide mentorship to senior and junior developers alike. By the end of the day, they review the team's progress, update key documentation, and strategize for the next day's tasks.

• Lead the design, implementation, and development of dynamic account opening and account maintenance applications.
• Explore and implement AI based solutions to enhance the account opening and client onboarding systems.
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through technical design and implementation of industry best practices adhering to LPL’s modernization practices, cloud practices, SDLC, and release management processes.
• Develop positive relationships with business partners to understand their needs, manage expectations, deliver value‑add solutions and support translation of problem statements into system requirements.
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvements and show success through KPIs.
• Full application life‑cycle coordination and management of deliverables in alignment with best practices and organizational compliance goals.
• Collaborate with other shared services teams (technical and non‑technical) to ensure solutions and platforms are both functional and sustainable.
• Use customer and business feedback to inform roadmaps and non‑functional goals.

• 12+ years of hands‑on full‑stack development with deep proficiency in .NET technologies, including .NET Core and .NET Framework, and strong expertise in Angular concepts such as components, modules, services, and dependency injection.
• Ability to create and consume RESTful services.
• Understanding responsive design principles to ensure applications work on various devices.
• Experience with IaC tools like AWS Cloud Formation or Terraform.
• CI/CD using Git Hub repositories.

• Documentation Generation:
  Utilizing AI to generate documentation for code, including comments, function descriptions, and usage examples.
• Code Refactoring:
  Employing AI to suggest and automate code refactoring, improving code quality and maintainability.
• Knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda. Utilizing AI‑powered tools like Copilot to generate code snippets, boilerplate code, and entire functions based on natural language descriptions.
• Leveraging AI to provide intelligent code completions, reducing the time spent on writing repetitive code.
• Using AI to identify potential bugs and suggest fixes in real‑time as you write code.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both technical and non‑technical.
• Problem‑Solving:
  Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to debug and resolve issues efficiently.
• Capable of effectively planning, prioritizing and executing tasks utilizing resources and tools.

$155,288–$258,813 per year.

Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at…