Principal Software Development Engineer | Remote

LifeWay Christian Resources; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is searching for a Principal Software Development Engineer who will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of application development. This position emphasizes collaboration across diverse teams to architect and integrate cloud-native solutions that drive efficiency and responsiveness in business operations. With a strong commitment to excellence, the ideal candidate will guide technical teams in adopting best practices while staying abreast of the latest technological advancements. If you are passionate about leveraging your skills to serve a greater mission and thrive in a flexible, remote work environment, this opportunity is tailor-made for you.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits

Vacation and sick time

401(k) plan

Maternity and paternity leave

Adoption assistance

Mission trip time

Flexible work hours

Ergonomic workspace resources

Qualifications

• 10+ years in development and maintenance roles within IT organizations.
• Strong knowledge of SaaS cloud application integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate with teams to design integrations for data flow.
• Provide technical guidance on new architectural approaches.

Skills

Cloud application architecture

DevOps principles and practices

Problem solving skills

Leadership skills

Programming skills

Analytical skills

Written and verbal communication

Ability to collaborate

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Master's degree in computer science

Tools

AWS

Salesforce

Kubernetes

GitHub

Job description

Overview

Lifeway is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer. The Principal Software Development Engineer (Pr. SDE) works across diverse teams and is responsible for providing direction on how best to develop and integrate applications and services for Lifeway. Lifeway, with its diverse technology footprint, requires someone who can acknowledge and embrace the varying needs of different systems and stakeholders, balancing back-office requirements of reliability and consistency with customer-oriented requirements that demand agility and responsiveness. As such they are experienced in being able to define boundaries of responsibility and ownership of the different capabilities required by the business and are knowledgeable with current industry best practices for integrating them. They plan a key role to help both the business and technical teams to think strategically about system responsibility. As a technical leader, the Pr. SDE works closely with the development community to lead and review high level architecture, cloud-native proposals, and SaaS applications including integrations. The Pr. SDE is committed to maintaining high standards for the quality and efficiency of work.

The ideal candidate is responsible for staying up to date with the latest best practices and technological solutions. They actively engage in all levels of development, champion best practices, and encourage teams to adopt and implement them.

Why Lifeway?

Lifeway is a place where you can bring your faith and work experience to join in the most important mission in the world: making disciples of Jesus Christ. Whether you’re a creator or storyteller, data guru or problem-solver, or anywhere in between, if you’re passionate about serving the church, we have a place for you. Lifeway has a strong Work from Anywhere (WFA) culture that is deeply focused on our mission and values. While headquartered in Nashville, TN, many of our positions are remote-eligible and have autonomy and flexibility with work hours. We provide equipment and resources to ensure team members have access to a productive and ergonomic workspace. We believe building relationships and community is essential to how we work together, so Lifeway hosts all-team meetings several times per year and provides travel for key team gatherings for remote-based team members. Full-time employees are eligible for enrollment in our comprehensive benefits plans including healthcare, vacation and sick time, holiday pay, care days, 401(k) plan, maternity and paternity leave, adoption assistance, mission trip time, and more. If this sounds like a place where you would be excited to serve the kingdom of God, we would love for you to join our team.

Learn more about our culture at team.lifeway.com/culture-code

This is a remote position in the U.S. with occasional travel to Nashville for in-person team gatherings. #LI-Remote

Responsibilities

• Lives out Lifeway’s mission and values, showing deep commitment to Kingdom work.
• Lead, collaborate, and coordinate with developers, managers, and analysts across teams to design and architect integrations to support the flow of data between systems such as CRM, ERP, HR, WMS, eCommerce, and custom applications.
• Provide architecture, security, and technical guidance to development teams on new architectural approaches relevant to SaaS software and other systems across the organization. Includes researching new approaches and developing proofs of concepts.
• Collaborate with other Principal Software Development Engineers representing the intricacies of corporate solutions such as ERP (Financials, Order Management, Supply Chain), WMS, TMS, PeopleSoft, etc.
• Analyze and improve existing system architectures, integrations, and migration techniques leveraging cloud technologies to improve speed to delivery for the business.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Information Security, Business Intelligence, and more.
• Participate in SaaS software and implementation partner evaluations to provide technical oversight and recommendations.
• Hands-on development of cloud applications.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field - required

Masters degree in computer science, information technology or related field - preferred

Advanced graduate degree (PhD, etc.) - not required

Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences, required

• 10+ years development and maintenance roles with an IT organization.
• Knowledge of integrating with SaaS cloud applications, such as Salesforce, ERP, WMS, and more.
• CI/CD, security best practices, DevOps principles and practices, logging, monitoring, and alerting within a cloud environment.
• Cloud application architecture.
• Software design and architecture, including Domain Driven Design and Eventing.
• Programming skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Analytical skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Written and verbal communication.
• Ability to collaborate and interact with employees at a technical and non-technical level.

Actively involved in an evangelical Christian church.

Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences, preferred

• Experience leading or working closely with software engineering teams.
• Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Design, and other architecture and software patterns.
• API Gateway, Kubernetes, SQS, SNS, S3, Cloudfront, EC2, VPC, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, IAM Roles, Kafka events or similar.
• C#, .NET 8+, Java, and other integration programming languages.
• Minimal APIs, Web API, RESTful APIs, Microservices.
• No SQL Databases (i.e. MongoDB, DynamoDB), Relational Databases.
• GitHub.
• Agile (Scrum).
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications.
• Experience integrating with Salesforce, Oracle Fusion, People Soft, and other SaaS solutions is a plus.
• Experience with Human Capital Management (HCM), Warehouse, Transportation Management applications is a plus.