Principal Engineer

York Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health benefits

Remote-friendly environment

Career growth opportunities

Zusammenfassung

York Solutions, LLC is seeking a Principal Engineer to set the engineering vision for our Customized Experience Platform (CEP). This role bridges strategic intent and scalable execution across web, mobile, and content-driven experiences.

You will guide platform observability, content management, and developer experience, influencing engineering teams and collaborating with product and design leaders to deliver high-value outcomes.

Qualifikationen

• Experience designing platforms as products
• Ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams
• Strong judgment on system design and scalability

Aufgaben

• Define engineering vision and strategy for the Customized Experience Platform (CEP)
• Lead cross-team architectural decisions to improve delivery speed and reliability
• Embed with CEP platform engineers to unblock implementations and establish patterns
• Collaborate with product, design, and senior tech leaders to translate strategy into roadmaps
• Develop scalable, observable, and reusable platform capabilities for web, mobile, and content-driven experiences
• Drive DevOps improvements and incident resolution for production systems

Kenntnisse

Systems thinking

Leadership

Platform engineering

DevOps

Tools

CI/CD

React/Next.js

Jobbeschreibung

Description Looking an experienced "blended builder" (architect and engineer hats) with deep experience in digital platforms, CMS, design systems, mobile/web experiences, and enabling product teams through reusable platform capabilities.

Here’s a breakdown of the tech stack, from the lens of what is in the mono-repo, thrivent-web 1. TypeScript-first monorepo(dominant language) 2. React + Next.jsfor web apps 3. Node.jsruntime/tooling (Node 24 inpackage.jsonand Dockerfiles) 4. React Native for mobile (with Expo + native iOS/Android integration) 5. Nx + Yarn workspacesfor monorepo orchestration

Logistics: Type: contract to hire (MUST BE OPEN TO CONVERTING) Location: 100% remote (CST working hours, approx 9-5)

Description As a Principal Engineer, you will help establish the engineering vision and act as the bridge between strategic intent and scalable execution in our Customized Experience Platform (CEP). This role drives technical direction and engineering strategy across experience channels with particular focus on content management, digital delivery, experimentation, mobile app engineering, platform observability and experience analytics, and developer experience. You will shape the paved path for teams building web, mobile, and content-driven experiences, ensuring platform investments improve delivery speed, reliability, business value, and measurable customer outcomes. Success in this role requires strong systems-level judgment, the ability to operate platforms as products (where engineering teams are your customers), and the credibility to lead through influence - evangelizing the "why" and bringing engineering teams along while collaborating closely with product, design, and senior technology leaders.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:?

Designing Solutions

Apply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with technical knowledge focused on content management, digital delivery, experimentation, mobile/web app engineering, observability & analytics, and devex.?

Articulate how components interact across product groups and how architectural choices improve delivery speed, quality, reliability, and customer outcomes. This includes cross-channel solution designs & architecture for CEP capabilities

Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy.

Implementing Solutions

Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer. Uses application and system data, as well as past experiences to inform decision making.

Leader in technical expertise; Develops most architecturally impactful components of solutions.

Embed with teams as needed to create engineering structures/patterns that enable the team to work collaboratively and effectively. This includes embedding with CEP platform engineers to unblock implementation.

Creates new development frameworks and collaborates with the team to create solution components that accelerate adoption of paved paths across web, mobile, and content-driven experiences.

Learning and Applying New Techniques

Leads the initiative to research new techniques along with best practices and share it across organization.

Collaborating Within the Team

Participate in team’s collaboration session to provide technical expertise to solve most complex and/or architecturally impactful problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team.

Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps product owner translate customer outcomes into technical strategy, capability roadmaps, and actionable engineering work, as needed.

Technical leader in system design across multiple teams; Provides broad and/or deep expertise in collaborating across teams to create solutions that lead to outcomes.

Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes for the most critical technology and/or strategic priorities for the organization.

Collaborating Across Teams

Promote cross team adherence to technology standards and target architecture.

Technical leader in system design across multiple teams; Provides broad and/or deep expertise in collaborating across teams to create solutions that lead to outcomes.

Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes for the most critical technology and/or strategic priorities for the organization.

Collaborating Across the Organization

Expert in design, developing, documenting and analyzing overall architecture of systems, including hardware and software. Work in collaboration with other product teams to provide technical expertise to engineers across the company.

Creates design patterns for the enterprise and provides technology insights that guide the strategic technology vision for the organization.

Provides the feedback loop from teams back to operations as new requirements for operationalizing products become necessary. May do this through PoCs or full implementations.

Setting Product/Platform Technology Strategy

Define the high-level capabilities requirements for the product/ platform and collaborate with the teams across the organization.

Provide platform technology expertise to teams within product group as well as interdependent teams across the organization.

Defining Engineering Standards/Patterns

Partner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices.

Define and share engineering standards across internal teams and collaborate to help engineers apply these patterns to build solutions that achieve outcomes.

Participates in external activities including open-source software contributions and meetups.

DevOps

Lead the resolution of critical incidents and provides technical leadership in proactively addressing critical production issues/outages.

Able to assess and introduce technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software.

Evaluate, recommend and execute new CI/CD components to make the products more stable for a given area.

Benefits:

• BCBS Medical with 3 Plans to choose from (PPO and High deductible PPO plans with Health Savings Program)
• Delta Dental plan with 2 free cleanings and insurance discounts
• Eye Med Vision with annual check-ups and discounts on lens
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance paid by company
• John Hancock 401(k) Retirement Plan with discretionary company match
• Voluntary Insurance programs such as: Hospital Indemnity, Identity Protection, Legal Insurance, Long Term Care, and Pet Insurance.
• Flexible work environment with some remote working opportunities
• Strong fun and teamwork environment
• Learning, development, and career growth