Principle Software Engineer

Here at Rehrig Pacific, we are all about our people. Since 1913, our organization has focused on sustainable supply chain solutions while creating a culture and atmosphere where amazing people, like you, are celebrated for doing their best work. Rehrig Pacific has grown to meet the needs of our industry consumers across the country and internationally. We are constantly creating innovative solutions to transcend the new standards set forth by our customers.

We find true fulfillment in helping others, both within the Rehrig Pacific family and in our communities. As servant leaders, we lead by example.

The Principal Software Engineer is a senior hands-on technical leader responsible for designing and delivering scalable enterprise software solutions. This role drives modern application architecture, cloud-native development, enterprise integrations, RFID-enabled solutions, and data platforms while improving system performance, reliability, security, and engineering efficiency. The role also champions the responsible adoption of AI-assisted and Agentic Development Lifecycle (ADLC) practices to enhance software quality, maintainability, developer productivity, and delivery outcomes.

This role is accountable for delivering technical outcomes as a senior individual contributor. The Principal Software Engineer influences architecture, engineering standards, and modern development practices while remaining hands-on in solution design, development, delivery, and production support.

• Designs and delivers scalable enterprise software solutions that meet business, security, reliability, performance, and maintainability requirements.
• Leads hands-on development for complex capabilities, critical enhancements, integrations, and production issues.
• Applies AI-assisted and Agentic Development Lifecycle practices to improve requirements clarity, solution design, code quality, test coverage, documentation, and production readiness.
• Translates business needs into resilient application designs, implementation plans, and production-ready software.

• Designs and influences application architecture for secure, maintainable, and scalable enterprise platforms.
• Applies modern architecture patterns and engineering standards to improve quality, consistency, and long-term supportability.
• Partners with engineering leadership, Dev Ops, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to align solutions with enterprise expectations.

• Leads code design, code review, refactoring, troubleshooting, and implementation of complex application capabilities.
• Applies AI-assisted development practices to support coding, unit test generation, defect analysis, documentation, and code modernization while validating all generated outputs before release.

• Delivers cloud-native application capabilities and secure integration solutions across internal systems and third-order platforms.
• Influences API design, integration patterns, event-driven solutions, and data exchange practices to support reliable business operations.
• Works with platform, security, infrastructure, and Dev Ops partners to ensure solutions align with reliability, automation, monitoring, and security practices.

• Provides hands-on technical leadership, design guidance, code review, and mentoring to software engineers across assigned initiatives.
• Helps teams evaluate tradeoffs, resolve complex technical challenges, and deliver solutions with appropriate quality controls.
• Identifies opportunities to improve developer productivity, software quality, system performance, delivery efficiency, and production support effectiveness.
• Coach teams on responsible AI-assisted…