Chubb Life - IT Principal Engineer

Chubb; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 600,000,000 - 900,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Chubb is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to own end-to-end architecture across domains. You will write production code, raise engineering standards, and collaborate with product, QA, and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable software.

You will mentor engineers, drive automated testing, and lead design discussions, while advancing CI/CD and cloud-ready practices in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering.
• At least 2 years in a senior technical leadership capacity (Senior Engineer or Technical Lead).
• Experience shipping production code across multiple parts of the tech stack.
• Experience developing web applications in a public cloud environment.
• Experience solving production issues in on-premise and cloud environments.
• Experience using Jira, ServiceNow, or BMC.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve system and solution architecture for domain(s) or platform(s).
• Ensure designs are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with reference architectures.
• Make decisions on software architecture and implementation strategy.
• Lead design discussions with stakeholders to support feature delivery.
• Build tooling to improve developer productivity and CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor engineers and conduct thoughtful code reviews.
• Promote Agile delivery and effective version control practices.
• Investigate and resolve complex production and performance issues.
• Champion automated testing and quality engineering.

Skills

Mentoring

System architecture

CI/CD

Agile delivery

Automated testing

Code reviews

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering / IT

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow

BMC

Job description

Job Description

The Senior Principal Engineer is a senior individual contributor role responsible for owning and evolving end-to-end technical architecture for one or more business domains. The role writes production code, raises engineering standards, and drives measurable improvements in how software is designed, built, tested, and operated. This position works closely with product, engineering, QA, platform, and business stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

Job Description

The Senior Principal Engineer is a senior individual contributor role responsible for owning and evolving end-to-end technical architecture for one or more business domains. The role writes production code, raises engineering standards, and drives measurable improvements in how software is designed, built, tested, and operated. This position works closely with product, engineering, QA, platform, and business stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

• Own and evolve the system and solution architecture for assigned domain(s) or platform(s).
• Ensure technical designs are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise or global reference architectures.
• Make decisions on software architecture and implementation strategy.
• Drive adoption of test-driven development, common APIs/interfaces, and shared engineering patterns.
• Write high-quality application code in critical or complex areas and set a strong example for engineering standards.
• Lead system and solution design discussions with multiple stakeholders to support feature development and delivery planning.
• Identify technical risks and challenges early and resolve them with timely, innovative, and pragmatic solutions.
• Build tooling and improve developer productivity, software delivery agility, and development environments.
• Champion automated testing, quality engineering, and appropriate unit, functional, and integration test coverage.
• Promote Agile delivery, version control best practices, and effective branch/release strategies.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, QA, and other teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and cloud-ready development practices.
• Mentor and coach engineers, including senior engineers, and conduct thoughtful code reviews.
• Investigate and resolve complex production and performance issues across the stack.
• Build observable, fault-tolerant systems with monitoring, logging, and alerting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering roles.
• At least 2 years of experience in a senior technical leadership capacity, such as Senior Engineer or Technical Lead.
• Experience shipping production code across multiple parts of the technical stack.
• Experience developing web applications in a public cloud environment.
• Experience investigating and solving production issues in both on-premise and cloud environments.
• Experience using workflow management tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, or BMC.