Principal Software Developer

This role offers the chance to set technical direction for PowerPlans mission-critical tax accounting and workflow platform not just build within it. Youll move fluidly between hands-on development and Azure and higher-altitude architecture conversations with SMEs and leadership becoming a trusted technical authority across more than one domain of the platform.

Beyond your own delivery youll build a deliberate mentoring practice that raises the skill level of the developers around you reducing the teams reliance on any single person for its hardest problems. Its an opportunity to shape both the platforms technical direction and the people who build it in a high-trust high-accountability engineering culture.

Were in the middle of one of the most significant transformations in our history. Decades of proven functionality are being reimagined on a modern SaaS foundation while AI becomes central to how we build deliver and evolve our products. The next generation of the PowerPlan platform is being designed right now. Join us and youll have the opportunity to influence the technology engineering practices and capabilities that will shape it for years to come.

Success will be measured by how quickly you become a trusted technical voice across more than one domain how reliably your code ships without accumulating technical debt and by how much less the team depends on any single senior engineer for its hardest problems including you.

• Embed with architects and SMEs to master the and Azure architecture workflows and data flows and proactively flag at least one real architectural or scalability risk in an existing design.
• Lead design and architecture reviews for real features or system areas presenting scalable approaches and Azure and getting SMEs and leadership aligned behind them.
• Design build and maintain production-ready features /C# applying strong scalability and maintainability discipline.
• Use code review testing and performance diagnostics to catch issues before they reach production and sustain a low defect escape rate.
• Build a consistent mentoring presence through regular pairing and substantive code review raising the teams overall skill level so hard problems stop depending on any one person.
• Deliberately take on hard technical questions currently routed to a single existing senior engineer spreading that dependency across more than one person.
• Surface technical risks and blockers as soon as you spot them and engage in direct reasoned technical debate rather than defaulting to consensus while still driving every disagreement to a clear decision.

• Deep expertise in (C# Core) async/await patterns performance optimization and API design.
• Hands-on experience designing relational schemas and optimizing SQL queries in an Azure SQL or SQL Server environment.
• Experience operating cloud-hosted systems on Azure with a working understanding of scalability resiliency and cost/performance tradeoffs.
• A demonstrated ability to lead architecture or design discussions and get SMEs and leadership aligned behind a technical direction across more than one domain.
• A track record of mentoring other developers through pairing and substantive code review.
• A willingness to surface risks and blockers early and engage in direct technical debate while still driving disagreement to a clear decision.

Preferred

• Experience mentoring developers formally such as through a structured onboarding or leveling program.
• Prior experience owning technical direction across more than two domains of a large platform.
• Familiarity with regulated or compliance-driven financial software environments.

PowerPlan is an EOE

note that this is a hybrid role that involves a combination of onsite work from our corporate office as well as work from home. While we strive to accommodate flexible working arrangements when sensible there will be times when onsite work is required. This could include scheduled office days team meetings client meetings or special events.