Responsibilities

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for over 140 years.

With a goal to have 80% of our workloads in the cloud by 2026, there is an exciting opportunity before us to further modernize our systems to meet the growing needs of our customers.

Are you motivated by continuous development? Do you want to be part of a team who values and invests in you? 

As an experienced Software Engineer in Sales Compensation Technology, you’ll be part of an agile, product driven engineering culture. You’ll be an active member of a highly functioning software engineering team that is growing and sharing the principles behind our desired culture. 

Sales Compensation Technology is an established environment where technology professionals are not content with a dogmatic answer of, “That’s just how we do it here”. We have an ever-maturing engineering environment and value strong, professional opinions grounded on modern product engineering practices, lean product mindset and user centric design. All our engineers must know why we continually invest time and energy into changing how we work to advance our application portfolio through modernization and our cloud acceleration program. We have chosen AWS as our preferred cloud provider.

You’ll have the opportunity to: 

• Learn and grow alongside your team - pairing and mobbing are not only encouraged, it’s how we work 

• Engineer awesome software 
• Execute against our cloud accelerate strategy 
• Take advantage of training opportunities and engineering communities 
• Ensure consistent use and high-quality deployment of modern, innovative software techniques
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple managed environments 

• Question everything, with continuous inspection of the work, and how to make it better 
• Eliminate system impediments while promoting the necessity of modern software practices and technology 
• Own continuous improvement in yourself, your team, and the solutions you build 
• Engage in a trusting product engineering team 
• Build in security from the beginning, improve our coding practices, provide scale and performance capabilities, and evolve our engineering culture 

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with:

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in a science, technology, engineering or math related field or equivalent experience 
• 3 years of professional, progressive software engineering experience in modern technologies (Java/Scripting language preferred) 
• Cloud experience (AWS preferred) 
• REST Application Programming Interface (API) design and development 

• Willingness and ability to help mentor junior level engineers and collaboratively partner with experienced engineers 
• Strong motivation for continuous learning, problem solving, and analytical thinking 
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative environment to solve problems and deliver customer value 

Additional preferred experience, interest in or passion for the below: 

• Experience with or exposure to Domain Driven Design techniques/patterns 

• DevOps awareness and interest (TDD, CI/CD) 
• Passion for building highly scalable distributed systems 
• Committed to and experience with Test Driven Development and continuous integration techniques as part of the software delivery pipeline
• Aptitude to learn new skills working across multiple languages (e.g. Typescript) 
• Cloud native architecture and design 

Salary Range Information

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.

Salary Range

$77350 - $147600 / year

Additional Information

Job level  

We’ll consider talent at the next level with the right experiences and skills. 

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role. (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.)

Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants

Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Global Investors positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

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Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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