Lead Software Engineer

About the role

What You'll Do What You'll do As a Lead Software Engineer at Principal Financial Group, you will be at the forefront of crafting innovative and high-performance software solutions. Your role will involve crafting, developing, and implementing software that drives our products. You will work in close collaboration with our product development team to understand user needs and translate them into flawless technical specifications.

What you'll do

• Work in close collaboration with our product development team to understand user needs and translate them into flawless technical specifications
• Ensuring our software products are scalable, reliable, and efficient will be key to your success
• Have opportunity to: Architecture & Cloud Design: Collaborate with architects to define service/data architectures
• Build & Delivery: Implement Java/Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs, manage API lifecycle (versioning/deprecation)
• Facilitate agile ceremonies : (stand‑ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, retros) with a focus on technical outcomes, risk surfacing, and sprint goal clarity

What you need

• REST APIs
• Java
• TypeScript
• SQL
• Git
• AWS
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• Terraform
• Spring Boot
• Unit testing
• Microservices
• DynamoDB
• Performance testing