Experienced Software Engineer; Hybrid
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software
What You'll Do
As an Experienced Software Engineer at Principal, you’ll work with engineers to help lead our efforts to continue modernizing our technology and to enable great solutions for our customers. Our Technology Community has multiple openings in different lines of business such as Principal Asset Management, Retirement & Income Solutions, Benefits & Protection and SCBU Enablement. In this role you’ll join our community of over 4,000 engineers and help to build things people love.
Our goal is to enhance our customer experience and keep them at the center of our work.
Technologies used here at Principal include: AWS, Java, Python, Type Script, .NET, Salesforce (Apex, Lightning), mainframe, distributed systems, JavaScript, SQL, Mulesoft, and many more.
Here are a few examples of the kinds of things you’ll do:
- Develop high quality applications for our customers
- Identify and propose strategies around technical problems affecting the business, communicate standards, and get consensus on solutions
- Work closely within your engineering team, architecture, and business partners to resolve how to make our software even better
- Take on tasks of increasing complexity, learn quickly, and make steady progress to make improvements based on partner feedback
- Solve interesting and complex problems to create a positive customer experience
- Experiment with new tools and practices to deliver business value in an agile organization
- Continuously improve both yourself and the systems you are working on
- Understand how work fits into the larger strategy
- Actively participate with team during pairing, mobbing, and design
Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years.
What can you expect when you work at Principal?
- We help you understand our customers in meaningful ways so you can represent their points of view and needs in your work.
- We provide an environment based on integrity, inclusion, and trust where your diverse perspectives are welcomed. And we care about our local communities around the world and support efforts to make your impact go further.
- We provide a total rewards approach that pays you fairly for your contributions and helps you save enough, protect enough, and have enough—because it’s what we do.
- We give you the opportunity to do challenging and exciting work, continuously learn, and try new things.
- We set a clear enterprise direction so you can prioritize your work and deliver the highest value.
- You have an Associate's or Bachelor's degree with a preference in a science, technology, engineering, or math related field or equivalent work experience
- You have 2+ years software engineering experience
- Excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills
- Must have the desire to learn new technology and continuously grow
- Cloud platforms experience (we use AWS, but open to others)
- Development practices including TDD, CI, and pair programming
- Dev Ops
- May be required to provide on-call support
Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.
Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)$71250 - $152000 / year
Time Off ProgramFlexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off…
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