Senior Front End Software Engineer

What You'll Do

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Experience Solutions technology team within Workplace Savings & Retirement Solutions (WSRS). In this role, you’ll play a key part in the evolution of our digital experiences team. You’ll work primarily in the front‑end space, building modern, customer‑facing experiences using React, Next.js, and AWS. You’ll lead through influence, helping teams collaborate effectively, improving engineering practices, and partnering with architects and leaders to drive strategy.

• Lead the design and delivery of modern, secure, and scalable front‑end solutions that directly impact retirement customers
• Influence technical direction and contribute to architecture decisions during a significant modernization and decoupling effort
• Collaborate within an Agile product team, partnering with engineers, product, design, and stakeholders to solve complex problems
• Mentor and elevate other engineers through code reviews, pairing, knowledge sharing, and informal technical leadership
• Build and deploy cloud‑based applications running in AWS, using CI/CD pipelines and modern Dev Ops practices
• Use AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Git Hub Copilot) to improve productivity, testing, and code quality
• Champion engineering excellence with a focus on performance, reliability, accessibility, and maintainability
• Stay current with industry trends and propose modern technologies to improve our front‑end stack

As Principal continues to modernize its systems, this role will offer you an exciting opportunity to build solutions that will directly impact our long‑term strategy and tech stack, all while ensuring that our products are robust, scalable, and secure!

• Associate's or bachelor's degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math‑related field or equivalent experience) or equivalent experience
• 6+ years engineering experience, with a strong focus on front‑end, customer‑facing applications
• Professional experience with either React, Next.js, Angular or similar frameworks and modern component‑based development
• Experience contributing to system design, technical decision‑making, or reusable solutions using JavaScript/Type Script
• Strong communicator with a growth mindset and curiosity for learning new technologies and approaches
• Comfortable collaborating with distributed teams and cross‑functional partners
• Experience elevating the people around you – coaching, mentoring, and helping others grow through thoughtful feedback and knowledge sharing

• Hands‑on experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Deep understanding of front‑end development, using design systems
• Hands‑on experience working with Type Script, Next.js, and React
• Track record of building team culture
• Demonstrating a product mindset
• Using AI tools, Git Hub Copilot, etc.

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.

$116000 - $150000 / 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 an in‑office and hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) work arrangement in Des Moines, IA, Charlotte, NC, or Raleigh, NC.

At this time, we’re not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or…