Software Engineer II; Des Moines, iA; Charlotte, NC, Raleigh, NC

What You'll Do

As a Software Engineer II 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 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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

$77,000 - $93,000 / year

Flexible 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 under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.

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This role offers the ability for in‑office and hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) work arrangements in Des Moines, IA, Charlotte and Raleigh, NC locations. There is an expectation for this role to work on site at least 3 days a week.

Through our product‑driven Agile/Lean Dev Ops environment, we’ve fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer‑focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging…