Principal Software Engineer; aka Principal SWE

Principal Software Engineer (aka Principal SWE)

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As a Principal Software Engineer at Alex Lee, you deliver high‑performing, robust, scalable, and maintainable software, and as needed, mentor other software engineers. You collaborate with cross‑functional teams, document system designs, and report on project status. Continuous improvement and adoption of best practices are essential to your success as a Principal software engineer. Your contributions enhance product performance while maintaining high standards.

• Must be proficient in People Soft 9.2
• Hybrid position — office located in Hickory, NC

• Technical Leadership: Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products; holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions; works on‑call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Serves as a subject matter expert for your assigned component, providing mentorship and expertise to build knowledge and capabilities within engineering teams.
  
  Supports an inclusive and positive culture through active participation in team discourse, providing mentorship for junior team members and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Actively schedules and attends code reviews to maximize quality, security, and maintainability of all software. Quickly identifies and resolves complex technical issues and recommends and implements permanent robust solutions.
• Collaboration and Cross‑Functional Teams: Partners with cross‑functional teams to determine user requirements and drive project plans, releases, and overall development. Collaborates with peers across the organization on projects that turn opportunity into results.
• Documentation and Transparency: Documents system designs, processes, and architecture for transparency and future reference, complying with standards developed by architecture teams. Reports on project status, challenges, and results to stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement and Best Practices: Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while sharing knowledge with other engineers. Contributes to the continual improvement of your team’s quality standards and engineering processes.

• Requires either a bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years software engineering experience, including technologies/skills:
• Coding
  
  Languages:
  
  Proficient in People Soft 9.2, use of Open Search to support People Soft functions, People Code, and Fluid. SQR, SQL and SSIS a plus.
• ASP.NET MVC, .NET a plus; familiarity with Cloud/Azure a plus.
• Agile
  
  Experience:
  
  Familiar with Daily Standups/Scrums, Sprint Planning, Reviews & Retrospectives, and daily peer code reviews. Proficiency in these areas is important, especially at the senior level and above, where we expect individuals to lead and engage in these agile ceremonies effectively.
• Soft Skills:
  
  Problem‑solving abilities, effective time management, willingness to learn, openness to daily feedback from multiple perspectives through Pull Request reviews, and the ability to peer review other team members.
• Nice to have:
  Azure AD B2C Custom Policy Development;
  Docker/Kubernetes experience; AWS/Google Cloud Development Experience.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Strong self‑motivation and organizational skills; demonstrates ability to context switch between multiple concurrent projects; self‑sufficiency and excitement for working in a fast‑paced, result‑driven environment.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

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