Principal Software Engineer
Cincinnati, OHJobSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago
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Job overview
The Principal Software Engineer builds complex, scalable software systems for customer delivery, creates applications from scratch, and modernizes the company’s product suite. The role develops and unit tests software features, analyzes root causes of complex defects, and participates in standups and peer code reviews. It also involves the full software development life cycle, from coding and source control through testing and operations.
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Full job description
Build complex, scalable software systems that can be successfully delivered to customers. Build applications from scratch. Transform and modernize the company's product suite. Develop and unit test assigned software features and functionalities. Perform technical root cause analysis and outline corrective action for complex problems/defects. Demonstrate use of computer science fundamentals related to object-oriented programming, algorithm design, problem solving, complexity analysis, and data structures. Participate in daily standup meetings to communicate work progress and potential roadblocks. Participate in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions. Full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
How this job compares
Set against the 40,846 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Ohio median$110–206K/yr558 salary ranges
- Ohio median$57–67/hr32 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,000 open Software Engineer jobs in Ohio and 40,846 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
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- Experience
- Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (33,328 postings).
- Education
- 14,025 of the 40,846 open Software Engineer jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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