Sr Software Engineer II (AWS)

Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for an experienced, Senior Software Engineer to join our Workplace Personal Investing team. As we embark on building an innovative greenfield platform, we are seeking an experienced Technical Solutions Leader (individual contributor) to design, develop, and maintain software solutions that support wealth management platforms and client-facing applications specifically in the investing product space.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain software solutions that support wealth management platforms and client-facing applications.
• Grow the team’s ability to own and design all software development layers of a solution.
• Multiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work. Listen and guide debates to help reach consensus. Clearly communicate and back final decisions. Proactively nurture talent of the senior staff in the area.
• Lead design and delivery of High Yield Savings platform components including account setup (FDIC, joint accounts), tax documentation and reporting, and revenue/cost tracking services.
• Architect secure, compliant, and extensible APIs to support both customer-facing experiences and internal servicing workflows.
• Collaborate closely with compliance, finance, and data teams to ensure all regulatory and operational requirements are embedded in platform design.
• Guide the development of front-end components for transaction views, account dashboards, and system alerts.
• Drive alignment across engineering and product to ensure seamless UI-to-service integration and strong error handling in client interactions.
• Drive alignment across multiple engineering and product teams to ensure consistency in eventing, logging, and lifecycle management for account-based workflows.
• Partner with product managers and UX to deliver seamless customer onboarding and account servicing journeys.

Who You Are:

We are looking for someone with:

• Associate’s or bachelor’s degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field or equivalent experience) and 8+ years work experience or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of AWS experience is required.
• 6+ years of front end or backend development experience is required.
• Experience working with modern front-end frameworks (React preferred), and cross-browser responsive UI development.
• Experience leveraging industry leading vendors to achieve business and customer outcomes.

Additional Preferred Experience:

• Strong background in financial services or banking platforms, especially around transactional and compliance-based workflows.
• Hands-on experience building event-driven, cloud-native applications (AWS preferred).
• Familiarity with front-end integration best practices including REST APIs, error messaging standards, and accessibility.
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure and scalable notification/eventing systems (e.g., SNS, SQS, EventBridge).
• Must have hands-on experience developing software solutions for wealth management platforms or financial services applications.
• Advanced planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills required.
• Must be able to maintain a high degree of accuracy and confidentiality.

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 (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly) $123,000 - $167,000 / year.

Time 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:

Yes

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.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship:

At this time, we’re not considering candidates 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 Global Investors 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.

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.