Principal Software Engineer
Aflac
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: South Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $119,000 - $169,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Define architectural guidelines and best practices
- Lead software development initiatives from conception to deployment
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align software solutions with business objectives
- Introduce and train teams in advanced programming languages and tools
- Ensure cloud readiness and optimal performance of all applications
- Leads and mentors technical and project team members at the business function level
- Leads the project team in analyzing the requirements and providing accurate and detailed estimates for the designing, building, testing and deployment phases of the project
- Provides technical leadership and mentoring to various technical teams
- Collaborates with Architects, Developers, Senior Infrastructure Technical staff to evaluate and recommend technology advancements and business solutions for assigned projects and/or applications
- Supports the implementation and testing of cross-functional systems, ensuring system meets the needs of client and business; provides continuous support to internal and external clients who are experiencing problems with server hardware, operating systems, core infrastructure applications and related utilities, maintains mainframe operating systems or major subsystems, and associated software and hardware products; handles unresolved support issues across multiple areas of expertise
- Proactively monitors projects and/or existing production applications and core infrastructure by looking for ways to improve the applications and its availability
- Handles unresolved production support issues across multiple areas of expertise; analyzes the current architecture
- Provides design recommendations, develops application and custom integration solutions, including major enhancements and interfaces; writes complex design specifications
- Provides leadership to support ongoing maintenance of mainframe and/or client server applications or tools, depending upon previous involvement with projects
- Facilitates and ensures on-time completion of performance, load, functional and other categories of testing and application vulnerability testing efforts and resolution of issues; develops new cross-functional software systems using disciplined software development processes
- Performs other duties as required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or other related field
- Six or more years of programming experience
- Deep experience in modern programming languages (Salesforce) and cloud development
- Mastery of Scrum, DevOps, and Test-Driven Development
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- prescription drug coverage
- health care flexible spending
- dependent care flexible spending
- Aflac supplemental policies (Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity offered at no costs to employee)
- 401(k) plans
- annual bonuses
- opportunity to purchase company stock
- 11 paid holidays
- up to 20 days PTO to be used for any reason
- state-mandated sick leave (Washington employees accrue 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked)
- other leaves of absence, if eligible
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
programmingSalesforcecloud developmentScrumDevOpsTest-Driven Developmentapplication designintegration solutionsperformance testingload testing
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingproject managementstakeholder alignmenttechnical guidanceteam traininganalytical skills