Principal Software Engineer
Patterson isn't just a place to work, it's a partner that cares about your success.
One of the distinguishing marks of our company is the talented people who embrace the people-first, always advancing, and results-driven culture. Professional growth abounds in this motivating environment. We value the diverse talents and experiences our employees bring to Patterson and believe that they build a stronger and successful organization.
The Principal Software Engineer is a technical expert with extensive knowledge and capabilities spanning platforms, frameworks, and languages. They are accountable to the technical health of a product, project, services, or technical domain. This includes defining technical solutions to business problems and to lead the effort to research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the product development life cycle. The Principal Software Engineer also defines and implements best practices, standards and processes for development, analysis, and maintenance of software applications. This includes processes and standards on writing, coding, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications.
Essential Functions
To perform this job successfully, an employee must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodation. To request a reasonable accommodation, notify Human Resources or the manager who oversees the position.
- Lead the research, identification, and analysis of business problems to create technical design meeting customer and stakeholder expectations for new or existing software applications.
- Identify risk and define mitigation plans, drive software engineering plans, and lead the effort in performing software improvements and upgrades.
- Create well architected designs and implemented code to enhance functionality and performance of software applications and lead software testing on new and existing programs for the purposes of ensuring customer health.
- Collaborate with architects and other technologists to develop and maintain code quality and architecture standards.
- Drive the definition of software development plans, including scoping, estimates, and implementation.
- Develop standards and reusable process for all software engineering.
- Provide technical advice, instruction, and training to software engineers with less experience.
- Drive product and software support effort for bugs, issues, and escalated incident tickets to resolve application and software issues.
- Collaborate with peers, managers, stakeholders, and customers to resolve problems with software products or company software systems.
- Deploy software through environments to production upon completion of development, testing, and documentation.
- Conduct code reviews based on team’s defined best practices.
- Responsible for leading the technical health of a software area including engineering approaches, designs, architecture, and runtime operations.
- Mentor software team members on technical concepts.
- Introduces new technology to solve business problems and creates relevant prototypes.
Additional Functions
In addition to the essential functions listed above, the incumbent may perform the following additional functions.
·Participate in regulatory and compliance activities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, Business, or area of functional responsibility preferred, or a combination of equivalent education and experience
- At least 7+ years of programming experience with various platforms and languages, with at least 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role
- Extensive experience with C# and .NET
- Proven experience in a DevOps culture focusing on the customer, CI/CD, production monitoring, cross-functional autonomous teams, and continuous improvement
- Experience designing, building, and optimizing enterprise scale integration environments
- Demonstrated experience with microservices architecture within major cloud service provider (Azure preferred)
- Extensive experience with a variety of relational and NoSQL technologies such as SQL Server, Cassandra, HBase, and Cosmos DB
- Demonstrated experience and thorough knowledge of Angular versions and working knowledge of React, Vue.js, and AngularJS
- Experience with API Management frameworks (i.e., Azure API Manager)
- Exposure to DevOps tools, processes, and culture (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Git, etc.)
- Creative and innovation-driven with the ability to articulate engineering design patterns related to scale, performance, security, and usability
- Ability to analyze across a range of platforms and applications and see interconnections between organizational systems.
- Experience with product planning and developing business cases and return on investment analyses
- Excellent understanding and proven experience of identifying and implementing software development best practices across teams
- Proven experience in object-oriented programming, additional programming approaches, and in leveraging multiple development technologies with proven ability to maintain software products written in different languages and platforms
Preferred Qualifications
Attendance and speaking at industry events.
Working Conditions
- Office environment – either in Patterson facility or at home/remote location
- Travel to corporate office is periodically required (Quarterly or so
- Periodic on call rotations and available outside of normal business hours on evenings and weekends during critical production release or issue escalation periods
The potential compensation range for this role is below. The final offer amount could exceed this range, based on various factors such as candidate location (geographical labor market), experience, and skills.
$160,000 - $180,000
We provide competitive benefits, unique incentive programs and rewards for our eligible employees:
- Full Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits and an integrated Wellness Program.
- 401(k) Match Retirement Savings Plan.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Paid Time Off (PTO).
- Holiday Pay & Floating Holidays.
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO).
- Educational Assistance Program (Tuition Reimbursement).
- Full Paid Parental and Adoption Leave.
- LifeWorks (Employee Assistance Program).
- Patterson Perks Program.
EEO Statement
EOE, including disability/vets.