Principal Software Engineer

Duck Creek Technologies

full-time

Posted on: 10/15/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $136,000 - $219,600 per year

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About the role

The Principal Software Engineer will guide technical vision for multiple projects
Contribute to key platform components (such as Authentication, User Management, Eventing Backbone)
Code review of projects, coding and/or configuring solutions for high complexity Agile stories across multiple domains or platform areas
Creation of conceptual design/architecture diagrams
Get multiple engineers aligned on a vision and executing
Regular interactions with technical leads to ensure proper strategy/execution
Inform technical leaders of any impediments or technical limitations encountered
Participate in hiring practices/interviews
Acts as the technical lead in project teams as the primary individual responsible for code and technical solution quality
Designs, codes, and delivers solutions to production for high-complexity Agile stories
Creates a conceptual design/architecture for large scale software solutions in collaboration with architects
Provides guidance and mentoring to software engineers
Debugs and resolves high complexity software bugs or issues, working independently
Writes automated unit and integration-level tests under own direction
Follows development standards and effectively demonstrates technical solutions to other developers in code reviews
Perform other related duties and activities as required

Bachelor’s degree, or higher education level, or its foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Information Sciences, and/or related field
Total Work Experience: 7+ years (software development), 5+ years of strategic leadership experience
Expert of scalable, resilient, modern, cloud-native microservice development with Java, .NET, Python, or Typescript
Expert in distributed software patterns, such as DDD, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architecture
Expert in Object-oriented design, Java or .NET development
Expert with CI/CD to deliver software enhancements to customers with full automation
Experience in Cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including Serverless
Experience with Terraform/Ansible or other IaC platforms
Experience with CQRS, event-driven architecture, and Kafka
Experience building monitoring, alerting, and observability for maintaining high customer SLAs for SaaS delivered products
Experience decomposing monolithic applications using Domain-Driven Design
Excels in the ability to lead, teach, and guide modern software-development practices across Product Development, operating independently with guidance.

Benefits

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