Senior Principal Software Engineer - Lead, Remote Impact

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 187,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-flex work week

401K with company match

Competitive pay and paid time off

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Principal Software Developer to lead advanced software engineering initiatives. You will design and implement distributed systems, drive full-stack features, and mentor engineers while embracing AI and emerging approaches to deliver impact at scale.

The role emphasizes engineering accomplishment, collaboration, and a focus on high-performance systems. A remote-ready work model and competitive rewards are highlighted.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-impact software solutions in professional settings
• Proven ability to design and implement distributed systems (multi-tier architectures) including storage layers, caching layers, application layers, with understanding of failure modes
• Verifiable experience with microservice architectures, especially in high-throughput and low-latency systems
• Portfolio of work showing expertise with system transformations (e.g., applying strangler patterns to evolve monoliths to microservices)
• Experience with complex systems migrations involving multiple phases (dark reads, dark writes, light reads, light writes)

Responsibilities

• Work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where ideas are discussed and challenged openly
• Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination
• Identify major system bottlenecks or flaws in business logic, and proactively address them
• Take ownership over core product problems, develop solutions you're proud of, and prove through data that they deliver impact at scale
• Work across the stack to solve problems -- there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you
• Lead a team of Developers to engineer and develop software to solve complex user problems
• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Design

Problem Solving

Solutions Development

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Principal Software Developer to lead advanced software engineering initiatives. You will design and implement distributed systems, drive full-stack features, and mentor engineers while embracing AI and emerging approaches to deliver impact at scale.

The role emphasizes engineering accomplishment, collaboration, and a focus on high-performance systems. A remote-ready work model and competitive rewards are highlighted.