Software Engineer Principal (AWS Group)

📋 Job Overview

We are a hybrid, remote-office company dedicated to growing our talent anywhere! We have onsite locations in: Sioux Falls, SD, Phoenix, AZ, Louisville, KY, Troy, MI, Franklin, TN, Easton, PA. At Pathward, we take tremendous pride in our purpose to create financial inclusion for all™. We are a financial empowerment company that works with innovators to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all. We strive to remove barriers that traditional institutions put in the way of financial access, and promote economic mobility by providing responsible, secure, high quality financial products.

🏢 About Pathward

We are a team of problem solvers and innovators who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger and well-positioned for success. We celebrate, and embrace, our team members through our *HUMBLE*HUNGRY*SMART approach, and we believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.

🎯 The Role

Applies knowledge of the technologies in Pathward’s technical stack to develop solutions. Responsible for working as part of a team and is required to perform all duties of software development including design, development, testing, and documentation.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Develops flexible, maintainable solutions using the guidelines, requirements and standard practices.
• Solves development problems through the use of good design and practical experience.
• Reviews, modifies, enhances, and maintains existing systems by fixing issues, remediating security vulnerabilities, and improving system performance.
• Participates in planning and user story analysis by providing feedback and demonstrating an understanding of user requirements.
• Assists in solving business problems by implementing technical solutions based on solid design principles and best practices.
• Actively participates in and follows software development processes and procedures.
• Documents software changes, best practices, and standards.
• Keeps up to date with current and future changes in tools, technology, programming best practices, and industry standards through training and development opportunities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in technical field or equivalent education and work experience required.
• Typically, 8+ years of experience working in a professional technical environment.
• 6+ years of professional software design and development experience required.
• Hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native services on AWS (such as Lambda, ECS/Fargate, RDS, and S3) is required.
• Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry and Prometheus/Grafana is required.
• General knowledge of Python, YAML, JSON, Terraform, Dockerfiles, Azure DevOps, and Git source control is required.
• General knowledge of the software development lifecycle, preferably Agile/Lean or Kanban preferred.
• Experience with the following technologies is expected, but not all are required: General knowledge of .NET, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Classic ASP, VB Script, Entity Framework, WPF, JavaScript, IIS, HTML, CSS, XML/XSLT, MSMQ, NServiceBus, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Git, or other source control tools required.
• Experience with Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, Git, or other source control tools preferred.
• Cloud development experience with Azure or AWS a plus.
• Effectively work within a team environment
• Effective written and oral communication
• Ability to teach and mentor other software engineers
• Ability to plan and prioritize for a team of developers

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Cloud development experience with Azure or AWS a plus.

🎁 Benefits

Salary range: $104,000– $174,000

This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity. Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, paid time off, and more.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. For assistance completing an application, please contact a Pathward People & Culture Representative by emailing – [email protected]