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Principal Software Engineer

Sherwin-Williams

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Location
Remote · US
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Job overview

The Principal Software Engineer provides technical leadership in designing, developing, testing, and enhancing complex software systems, applications, and digital products, including cloud-based and internet-related tools. The role guides teams through planning, architecture, implementation, and delivery while collaborating with business analysts, quality assurance testers, and project managers. This is a remote position and is not eligible for work-authorization sponsorship.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software Development LifecycleSoftware Development ToolsSoftware Development PlatformsProgramming LanguagesCloud Software SolutionsRelational DatabasesAdvanced SQL

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Related Field or 11 Years Software Development Experience8+ Years Software Development Experience

Full job description

The Principal Software Engineer plays a strategic role in designing and enhancing softwareapplications, products, websites, and digital products across the organization.The role will be responsible forproviding technical leadership, designing, developing, and testing highly complex software systems orapplications for software enhancements and new products, including cloud-based or internet-related tools forinternal and external consumption. The incumbent will provide technical solutions to enable the company to meetits strategic objectives through effective collaboration with business analysts, quality assurance testers, andproject managers. The incumbent will lead others to ensure successful teamwork, effective development, anddelivery of high-quality software solutions. This is a remote position. This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa. Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships. - Provide technical expertise in software planning cycles and connect with the team to provide feedback onproduct/project estimates and guiding the team in aligning with business goals andtimelines - Develop strategies to solve highly complex business requirements and analyze technical specifications toimplement the requirements, ensuring optimal solutions for complexprojects - Design and architect software, applications, and database enhancements or new products in alignment withbusiness requirements and technical specifications defined while considering scalability, performance, andmaintainability of thesystems - Strategically guide the process of developing, building and testing software systems or applications to meetbusiness requirements enabling the delivery of high-quality and timelysolutions - Drive high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code in various programming languages, provide guidance andmentoring to less experienced teammembers - Lead the team responsible for conducting bug fixes to identify and remediate defects in software solutions andensuring the overall stability and reliability of thesoftware - Supervise the technical documentation including code comments, design documents, and user manuals, whilesetting documentation standards for theteam - Provide technical leadership and guidance to business analysts, quality assurance testers, and project managersto ensure that software solutions meet business requirements. Share relevantpast experienceand best practicesto deliver thebest. - Provide high-level technical support to end-users, and make recommendations for enhancement orimprovements to ensure the proper usage and adoption of softwaresolutions #LI-DNP #NP POSITION REQUIREMENTS Required: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field. In lieu of a degree, at least 11 years of experience in software development 8+ years of experience in software development in the software development industry Extensive expertise and knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies and best practices Expertise and knowledge of software development tools, platforms, and languages Proven end to end experience in leading the development, integration, testing, and deployment of highly complex cloud-based software solutions or internet-related tools Proven experience in working with highly complex relational databases and advanced SQ

How this job compares

Set against the 7,849 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Ohio median$128–222K/yr115 salary ranges
  • US median$32–45/hr401 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 217 open Software Engineering jobs in Ohio and 7,849 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Ohio
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (6,076 postings).
Education
2,167 of the 7,849 open Software Engineering jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

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