Staff Software Engineer

pennmutual; USA; Vor Ort; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Penn Mutual is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Brokerage and RIA Technology Team. You will shape architecture, drive major initiatives, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on in delivery.

You will collaborate with product, security, and platform leaders to align roadmaps with business goals and long-term strategy, focusing on scalable, secure, and observable cloud-native solutions.

Qualifikationen

• Nine or more years of software development experience with significant technical leadership.
• Experience architecting and delivering complex solutions across multiple systems and teams.
• Deep expertise in AWS serverless and cloud-native data architecture.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and distributed systems.
• Excellent communication to influence decisions across teams and stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and strengthening technical capabilities.

Aufgaben

• Define and drive the technical direction and architecture for Penn Mutual's Brokerage and RIA Tech Team.
• Partner with product, engineering, architecture, business, cybersecurity, and platform leaders to develop roadmaps.
• Define architecture, reference patterns, and reusable capabilities for AWS serverless data integration.
• Architect complex solutions spanning multiple applications, services, data sources, and platforms.
• Lead cross-team initiatives from analysis through implementation and adoption.
• Establish and drive adoption of technical standards and reusable components.

Kenntnisse

AWS serverless

Cloud-native architecture

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

AWS Lambda

Step Functions

EventBridge

SQS/SNS

Glue

API Gateway

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will provide technical leadership for Penn Mutual's Brokerage and RIA Technology Team, helping shape the architecture and technical direction of its platforms and systems. You will lead complex initiatives, influence technical decisions across teams, and ensure solutions align with business needs and long-term technology strategy.

While remaining hands‑on in engineering and solution delivery, you will expand your impact through architecture, technical standards, reusable patterns, mentoring, and cross‑team technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical direction and architecture for Penn Mutual's Brokerage and RIA Technology Team and its associated platforms and systems.


• Partner with product, engineering, architecture, business, cybersecurity, and platform leaders to develop technical roadmaps aligned with business priorities and long-term technology strategy.


• Define architecture, reference patterns, engineering standards, and reusable capabilities for AWS serverless data integration across major platforms and multiple engineering teams.


• Architect complex solutions spanning multiple applications, services, data sources, integrations, and technology platforms.


• Lead major cross‑team technical initiatives from initial analysis and solution design through implementation and operational adoption.


• Establish and drive adoption of technical standards, reference implementations, and reusable components that improve consistency and scalability across engineering teams.


• Lead architecture and design reviews, ensuring significant technical decisions, trade‑offs, dependencies, and risks are clearly documented.


• Identify and address systemic technical risks, including dependencies, scalability constraints, security concerns, and operational weaknesses.


• Resolve complex technical challenges that span systems, teams, applications, or organizational boundaries.


• Balance near‑term delivery priorities with long‑term maintainability, modernization, reliability, and technical‑debt reduction.


• Influence product and technology roadmaps through technical expertise and a strong understanding of business priorities.


• Mentor Senior Software Engineers and other engineers, helping develop technical leadership capabilities across the organization.


• Evaluate emerging technologies and lead prototypes or proofs of concept for strategically significant capabilities.


• Communicate technical direction, architectural decisions, and recommendations to engineering teams, architects, business leaders, and other stakeholders.


• Promote engineering excellence through automation, observability, testing, documentation, security, and operational discipline.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.


• Nine or more years of relevant software development experience, including significant technical leadership responsibilities.


• Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering complex solutions spanning multiple systems, applications, platforms, or engineering teams.


• Deep expertise in AWS serverless and cloud‑native data architecture, including orchestration, messaging, APIs, security, networking, observability, resiliency, data governance, and infrastructure automation.


• Deep knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, integration approaches, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and operational resilience.


• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages, with the ability to contribute directly to solution design, development, prototyping, and technical reviews.


• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and decisions across teams without relying on direct reporting authority.


• Experience establishing and driving adoption of reusable engineering patterns, technical standards, and platform capabilities.


• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve cross‑team technical risks, dependencies, and complex technical challenges.


• Strong communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain architecture decisions, technical recommendations, and trade‑offs to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.


• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and strengthen technical and engineering capabilities across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading architecture for cloud‑native, enterprise integration, data platform, or distributed systems initiatives.


• Experience with major cloud platforms and technologies, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, containerization, serverless computing, or managed data services.


• Experience with architecture modeling, architecture decision records, reference architectures, and technology roadmap development.


• Experience establishing enterprise architecture and engineering patterns using AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, EMR, SQS/SNS, API Gate