Principal Software Developer

General Dynamics Information Technology

full-time

Posted on: 10/2/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $161,500 - $218,500 per year

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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.

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
Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C

Benefits

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
dental plan options
a vision plan
a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available

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Public Trust 6C