Software Engineer V - Principal Engineer

ELM Utility Services

Posted 2mo ago

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Lead large-scale technical initiatives and epics from concept through deployment and operational support.
Provide technical leadership across multiple teams and domains, helping drive architectural consistency and long-term maintainability.
Mentor and coach engineers across the organization, elevating technical capability and engineering maturity.
Collaborate with Product Managers, Team Leads, Architects, and Executive Leadership to align technical solutions with business outcomes.
Design and implement scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems and integrations.
Drive improvements in engineering standards, SDLC practices, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and operational excellence.
Champion best practices around performance, security, compliance, resiliency, and maintainability.
Participate in technical design reviews, backlog elaboration, and cross-team solutioning efforts.
Translate complex technical concepts into clear communication appropriate for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Identify systemic issues, technical debt, and architectural risks, and help lead pragmatic modernization efforts.
Contribute hands-on code and technical implementation where appropriate.
Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities for production systems.
Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
12+ years of professional software engineering experience preferred.
Demonstrated success designing and delivering enterprise-scale applications and platforms.
Expert-level proficiency in modern software development practices and object-oriented programming languages such as C# and .NET.
Strong experience with modern web application development using TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular and/or React.
Deep understanding of API design, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and integration patterns.
Strong experience with relational databases and SQL Server preferred.
Experience with cloud-native technologies and platforms such as Azure, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, security, resiliency, and performance optimization.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum product delivery environments.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority.

Experience with Azure DevOps, Git-based workflows, and modern DevOps practices.
Experience leading mobile application engineering strategy, including architecture, deployment methodology, release governance, staged rollouts, production monitoring, and continuous improvement of mobile delivery practices.
Experience designing event-driven or service-oriented architectures.
Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog, Azure Monitor, or similar tooling.
Postgres SQL
Experience operating within regulated or compliance-driven environments.
Demonstrated ability to lead modernization initiatives and mentor engineering teams through change.

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