Principal Software Engineer- Applications Team

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Principal Engineer, Application Engineering for a top enterprise software client. This individual will join a small, highly collaborative Scrum team supporting a strategic enterprise engagement and will take end-to-end ownership of complex product features within an equity-management SaaS platform. The ideal candidate is a deeply hands-on full-stack engineer with extensive experience across C#/.NET, Angular, Oracle, and Azure who can quickly translate requirements into thoughtful engineering designs and production-ready solutions. This is a 100% individual-contributor opportunity for someone who thrives in a high-ownership environment, communicates effectively with both technical teams and client stakeholders, and uses AI-enabled development tools to improve delivery speed and code quality.

Day-to-Day

• Serve as a hands-on individual contributor within a small application-development Scrum team
• Own assigned features from initial requirements through design, coding, testing, and release
• Create Engineering Design Documents for assigned features
• Write and review production-quality code across C#/.NET, AngularJS/Angular, and Oracle
• Build new features and enhance existing functionality within the Certent Equity Management platform
• Coordinate with the Lead Engineer and teammates on cross-feature and cross-service impacts
• Resolve technical ambiguity and surface risks, blockers, and scope concerns early
• Participate in sprint planning, refinement, daily standups, demonstrations, and retrospectives
• Maintain strong standards for unit testing, code review, release readiness, and definition of done
• Use Claude Code and other AI-enabled development practices as part of the daily engineering workflow
• Work toward organizational targets of at least 50% AI-authored pull requests and 95% AI-assisted code-review adoption
• Help move the team toward full Spec-Driven Development
• Engage client stakeholders during requirements clarification, design reviews, demonstrations, feedback discussions, and issue resolution
• Investigate underlying business needs and recommend scalable platform solutions instead of one-off client customizations
• Partner with Product Management and the Lead Engineer to define, scope, and sequence work
• Coordinate with matrixed QA engineers on test coverage, quality gates, and release readiness
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Lead Engineers, and Principal Engineers on technical standards and cross-team decisions

Skills and Requirements

• 8 to 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in enterprise SaaS environments

• Prior experience operating at the Principal, Staff, or Lead Engineer level

• Deep full-stack expertise with C#, .NET Framework and/or .NET Core, AngularJS/Angular, and Oracle

• Experience with Angular 15+, including Reactive Forms, RxJS, Angular Material, and TypeScript

• Strong working knowledge of Domain-Driven Design, including domain model layering across application, service, and data-access tiers

• Experience implementing CQRS patterns in multi-service architectures

• Oracle database and PL/SQL experience, including packages, procedures, views, and query optimization

• Experience with Entity Framework Core and the Oracle EF Core provider

• 3+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure technologies and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted or agentic development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Devin.AI, or comparable platforms

• Demonstrated ability to independently own feature delivery from requirements and engineering design through implementation and release

• Strong engineering-quality practices, including unit testing, disciplined code reviews, CI/CD hygiene, release readiness, and definition-of-done standards

• Experience with testing frameworks such as xUnit, NUnit, Jasmine, and/or Karma

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work directly with client stakeholders

• Experience collaborating within globally distributed teams across multiple time zones Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

• Experience in financial services, equity compensation, or another regulated industry

• Experience creating Engineering Design Documents

• Familiarity with Spec-Driven Development

• Track record of increasing engineering velocity or code quality through AI-enabled workflows Experience developing enterprise-scale SaaS products for strategic clients

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].