Principal Software Engineer: Ownership, Microservices & Scale

Business Transformation Partners; Hot Springs (AR); On-site; USD 127,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Transformation Partners is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for an on-site role in Hot Springs. The position emphasizes ownership of technology work, collaboration across teams, and a roadmap that includes Spring Boot and microservices expertise.

This freelance role offers scheduling flexibility and a structured plan to grow your Spring Boot capabilities, with a compensation range of $127,000 to $197,000 per year.

Qualifications

• 9+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks.
• 9+ years of Microservices reps, not just exposure.
• Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level.

Responsibilities

• Translate outages into fixes that prevent future incidents.
• Refactor a critical technology module without destabilizing the system.
• Turn on-call noise into meaningful alerts for the team.
• Prototype rough ideas quickly and decide which to invest in.
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production.
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with the user base.
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Microservices and Selenium.
• Document technical decisions, architecture, and APIs for the broader org.

Skills

Ownership of outcomes

Microservices experience

Stakeholder presentations

Cross-functional collaboration

Freelance/work scheduling

Tools

Spring Boot

Microservices

Selenium

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Business Transformation Partners is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for an on-site role in Hot Springs. The position emphasizes ownership of technology work, collaboration across teams, and a roadmap that includes Spring Boot and microservices expertise.

This freelance role offers scheduling flexibility and a structured plan to grow your Spring Boot capabilities, with a compensation range of $127,000 to $197,000 per year.