Principal Software Developer

General Dynamics Information Technology

full-time

Posted on: 9/6/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $166,280 - $224,968 per year

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AWSCloudDockerGraphQLJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesPythonRubyRuby on RailsSpringSpring BootSpringBootVBA

About the role

Work in a fast paced, collaborative environment where ideas are discussed and challenged openly
Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination
Identify major system bottlenecks, or flaws in business logic, and proactively address them
Take ownership over core product problems, be able to come up with your own solutions that you love and prove through data that it is impactful at scale
Work across the stack to solve problems, there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you
Lead a team of Developers to engineer and develop software to solve complex user problems.

10 + years of related experience
Minimum of 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Minimum of 10+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience (Java and/or Python)
Minimum of 10+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Must have experience designing a non-trivial distributed system (multi-tier) - storage layers, caching layers, application layers, understanding of failure modes, expertise with applying a strangler-pattern to transform a system from a monolith to a microservice architecture
Must have Microservice Architecture experience, especially with high throughput and low-latency systems
Experience working with complex systems migration involving multiple phases with dark reads, dark writes, light reads, light writes
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Proficient in Python/Java or similar language; an expert in majority of language constructs, able to apply them fluently to solve complicated and complex problems and have experience with performance tuning
Skills: Java, Microservice Framework, Python (Programming Language)
US Citizenship Required: Yes
Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C