Sr Software Engineer II - Principal Financial Group

What You'll Do:

The Customer Experience Enablement team at Principal has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer II to play a pivotal role in designing and delivering technology solutions that empower our company to create exceptional customer experiences. In this role, you’ll collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and partners across the enterprise to solve critical business problems and shape the technology strategy for marketing technology, Voice of Customer, and enterprise customer data initiatives.

 

As a key contributor, you’ll use your technical expertise, creativity, and collaborative approach to build impactful solutions that prioritize customer-first outcomes by enabling robust platforms, data engineering, and integrations.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Design and implement solution architectures and patterns that transform abstract ideas into actionable, innovative technologies
• Engineer data pipelines to make critical information accessible and actionable for teams and systems
• Write and maintain software using a variety of languages and platforms (e.g., AWS, Java, Python)
• Collaborate across teams to ensure alignment and successful delivery of customer-focused solutions
• Lead the integration and management of SaaS products and vendor solutions, such as Qualtrics XM Engage and Discover, Google Analytics, Salesforce CRM, Snowflake, financial aggregators, and RESTful APIs

As Principal continues to modernize its systems, this role will offer you an exciting opportunity to build solutions that will directly impact our long-term strategy and tech stack, all while ensuring that our products are robust, scalable, and secure!

 

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years.

Who You Are:

• Associate's or bachelor's degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field) or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of engineering/technology experience
• Ability to collaborate, influence, drive technical decisions across all levels of the organization, including peers, cross departmental teams, and senior leadership to align on technical strategies and deliver results
• Experience with mentorship/informal leadership
• Passionate about technology and keeping current on emerging trends

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• Developing solution architecture and technical design
• Exceptional adaptability and resilience, with the ability to thrive in dynamic, outcome-focused environments and navigate ambiguity to deliver innovative solutions
• Ability to integrate and lead vendor solutions effectively
• Versatility in software engineering across diverse platforms and tools
• Expertise in data engineering and positioning data for optimal use

Salary Range Information:Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.Salary Range:$123000 - $167000 / yearTime Off Program:Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.Pension Eligible:YesAdditional Information:

Work Environments

This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, or Charlotte, NC). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.

Hours

This role will partner with our global teams and has an expectation for flexibility in your work schedule to have a frequent start time around 7am CST.

Our Engineering Culture

Through our product-driven Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we’ve fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs.

 

Collaboration is embedded into everything we do – from the products we develop to the quality service we provide. We’re driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is critical to creating the best products and experiences for our customers.

 

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.

Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants

Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Asset Management positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

Experience Principal

At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services – and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Posting Window:We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.Date First Posted (TTF):1/21/2025Latest Post Date: Careers - US:1/21/2025

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