Principal Software Engineer

This is a hybrid position that requires a minimum of 3 days per week in our Raleigh NC office.

• This is a hybrid position requiring onsite work in our Raleigh NC office.
• Core technical experience with Oracle SQL Angular and is required.

• Lead a small high-impact team where your technical contribution and leadership both matter
• Own a meaningful portfolio of applications that support AKCs Sports & Events operations
• Help shape improvements across modern and legacy systems while working closely with business and engineering partners

• Lead and develop the team:Manage coach and support a small team of developers and contractors while fostering accountability collaboration and technical growth.
• Own technical delivery:Lead the design estimation planning and execution of small to mid-sized projects and enhancements translating business requirements into practical solutions.
• Contribute hands-on:Write code perform code reviews troubleshoot issues and help the team deliver high-quality solutions.
• Partner across the business:Work closely with Sports & Events stakeholders business analysts QA UX PMO and peer engineering leaders to align priorities and deliver effectively.
• Support and improve production systems:Oversee ongoing support and maintenance of production applications including L2 issue resolution root cause analysis prioritization of fixes and opportunities to modernize or rewrite legacy systems over time.
• Drive engineering quality:Promote strong engineering practices in code quality testing documentation estimation and maintainable design.

• 10 years of software development experience including leading projects and managing or mentoring technical team members
• Strong ability to estimate work break down requirements identify risks and dependencies and guide a team through execution
• Experience with interviewing hiring coaching performance feedback and employee development
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with business and technical partners

• Strong understanding of software design application architecture and best practices for building scalable maintainable systems
• Experience translating business processes into structured technical workflows and designing solutions for branching logic exception handling and coordinated system behavior
• Understanding of APIs event-driven architectures messaging systems asynchronous processing and orchestration patterns
• Experience evaluating workflow or orchestration platforms and supporting transformation initiatives is a plus

• Strong hands-on experience with JavaScript HTML CSS Angular and Oracle SQL
• Comfort working across modern and legacy application stacks with the ability to learn unfamiliar technologies to troubleshoot and support existing systems
• Experience in a DevOps-oriented environment with shared ownership for delivery deployment and production support
• Python MongoDB Redis Linux Docker FastAPI NestJS Elasticsearch NGINX Grafana and InfluxDB are helpful

• Engineers who enjoyleading from the front not from the sidelines
• People comfortable working in asmall high-impact team
• Leaders who canbalance delivery support and people managementeffectively

• You are looking for a role focused primarily on people management rather than hands-on technical contribution
• You prefer clear separation between leadership responsibilities and day-to-day technical delivery
• You are looking for a pure greenfield or architecture-only role with minimal support responsibility
• You strongly prefer working only with modern technologies and are not interested in supporting or modernizing legacy systems

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