Principal Software Engineer

PowerPlan is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to solve complex engineering challenges across its platform. The role provides hands-on technical leadership across application, data, and cloud engineering, helping teams build scalable, reliable solutions for mission-critical financial operations.

Responsibilities:

• Solve complex technical challenges across application, data, and cloud engineering domains
• Build scalable, reliable solutions that support mission-critical financial operations
• Champion reliability, performance, observability, and production readiness across critical systems
• Bring a systems-level perspective to technical decisions, helping teams navigate dependencies and tradeoffs
• Raise the bar for engineering quality through mentoring, code reviews, and technical leadership
• Identify risks early, reduce technical debt, and improve the scalability and maintainability of the platform
• Foster healthy technical debate and help teams make sound decisions that balance customer needs, delivery priorities, and long-term sustainability

Requirements:

• A track record of improving reliability and observability in distributed systems through monitoring, diagnostics, data-quality controls, and resilient design
• The ability to reason across complex systems, repositories, and dependencies, with experience working across both application and data engineering domains
• Strong engineering judgment with a high bar for code quality, testing, performance, and production readiness
• Deep expertise in C# and ASP.NET Core, including API and service development in enterprise environments
• Experience with Azure services, cloud-native architectures, and modern authentication and authorization technologies
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills, with an appreciation for data accuracy, scalability, and maintainability
• A willingness to learn and apply complex financial and accounting concepts in a highly regulated environment
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Accounting Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience
• Typically 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant ownership of enterprise applications, data platforms, distributed systems, or cloud-based services
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including backlog refinement, estimation, development, testing, release management, and production support