What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Software Engineer position at GDH?
Role Summary
This position is a senior-level software engineering role focused on building and leading a comprehensive customer-facing digital experience platform. The individual will serve as the technical leader responsible for end-to-end architecture, development, and integration of critical components such as authentication, API gateway, data layer, fraud prevention, and customer applications. The role combines hands-on coding with strategic architectural decision-making to deliver impactful, scalable solutions within a regulated industry.
Responsibilities
This position offers a fully remote work arrangement.
This position is a senior-level software engineering role focused on building and leading a comprehensive customer-facing digital experience platform. The individual will serve as the technical leader responsible for end-to-end architecture, development, and integration of critical components such as authentication, API gateway, data layer, fraud prevention, and customer applications. The role combines hands-on coding with strategic architectural decision-making to deliver impactful, scalable solutions within a regulated industry.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end technical design and development of a unified digital experience platform, including core infrastructure and customer-facing applications.
- Architect and implement integrations with policy administration systems, identity providers, fraud services, and AI platforms.
- Define technical standards, patterns, and best practices for the Digital Experience Center of Excellence, ensuring alignment with business outcomes.
- Write, review, and deploy production code; serve as a technical point of contact for complex and critical systems.
- Collaborate closely with enterprise solution architects and cross-functional partners on architecture, security, and compliance strategies.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted coding tools, establishing safe and effective development practices.
- Mentor and guide software engineers, fostering technical growth and establishing engineering excellence.
- Establish and maintain performance, reliability, security, and accessibility benchmarks for the platform.
- Identify and manage technical debt, promote platform reuse, and improve team productivity.
- Communicate technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs effectively to leadership, product teams, and stakeholders.
- Over 10 years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on customer-facing digital products or platforms.
- Extensive experience designing and owning architecture for systems deployed on AWS, including serverless components (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3, DynamoDB, RDS).
- Proficiency with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, including data modeling and performance tuning.
- Proven track record of using AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) and leading teams to adopt them safely.
- Experience building and operating digital products in heavily regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, or healthcare.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical standards, mentor engineers, and lead technical initiatives across teams.
- Strong collaboration skills working with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, product, and design teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to work fully remote and independently manage responsibilities.
This position offers a fully remote work arrangement.
Salary : $160,000 - $200,000