Principal Software Engineer

Location:

2-3 Days Hybrid in Frederick, MD

• Drive multiple projects through to delivery removing obstacles as needed to ensure success.
• Gain a working understanding of Banner Life as a business and collaborate with leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for customers.
• Design and develop web-based applications and micro-services using both front-end and back-end technologies (full stack development), including but not limited to technical design, coding, and unit testing to generate high quality deliverables to achieve product release objectives.
• Drive improvements to software engineering practices.
• Identify changes needed to improve customer/partner experience through a data driven approach.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of corporate security procedures and policies for implementation, auditing, and documentation purposes as part of the software implementation process.
• Mentor and train software engineering team members, including both employees and contractors, fostering personal and professional growth.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and apply to projects as appropriate.
• Recommend business solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of building solutions ourselves vs low code / no code options available in the market.
• Prepare technical documentation and participate in and perform/lead code reviews to ensure that application code meets internal standards and follows industry best practices.
• Research new technologies and present proposals to management on technologies that would facilitate processing of business or reduce costs to the organization to architects and management.

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.

• 10+ years of software design and development experience with backend services.
• 10+ years hands on experience in any Object-Oriented coding language. C# preferred.
• 3+ years designing distributed systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with excellent interpersonal communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
• Experience in Dev Ops to maintain live services and/or application frameworks.
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
• Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design
• Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and interactive development processes.
• Clear and experienced understanding of software development life cycle procedures and processes, including agile methodologies.

• Desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.
• Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result.
• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges.
• A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to develop and deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations.
• Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.

• Expert level knowledge of C#, .NET Core, .NET Frameworks
• Web Services, Micro-services, SQL, Entity Framework
• HTML, HTML5, CSS, Responsive Design
• Experience with unit testing frameworks (nUnit, MSTest, Jasmine, Karma, etc.)
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience with version control techniques using Git or Bit Bucket
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or other container methodologies)
• Experience with application deployment in the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)