Principal Software Engineering

About the role

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests. Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

What We Do

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses: 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Job Description

• Summary: The Principal Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving enterprise-scale architecture, engineering strategy, and delivery excellence across modern web platforms. This role operates at a systems and organizational level—designing, influencing, and governing solutions that span multiple teams and domains—while ensuring the development of secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performing applications using TypeScript, React, and Node.js deployed on cloud platforms. As a recognized technical authority, the Principal Engineer leads through influence, elevates engineering maturity, and establishes standards that enable consistent, high-quality delivery at scale. This role also champions the effective adoption of AI-assisted engineering to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and standardize practices across the enterprise.

• Responsibilities:

  • Enterprise Architecture & Technical Strategy
  • Delivery & Engineering Excellence
  • Technical Leadership & Influence
  • Full-Stack & Platform Engineering
  • Cloud & Platform Architecture
  • AI-Assisted Engineering & Innovation
  • Thought Leadership & Continuous Improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent experience
• Eight years of experience with database design techniques/philosophies, modern distributed applications, and microservices
• Understanding of advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations
• Experience with big data and real time streaming analytics processing architecture
• In-depth knowledge of NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MS Cosmos DB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB)
• Five years of development experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS/Azure) utilizing various support tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs)
• Expertise in coding platforms/frameworks (e.g. .NET/C#, JAVA, OOD, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, OOP, Service Oriented Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Core Architecture)
• Expertise in build and deployment tools - (Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SQL Management Studio, Nunit, Ajax)
• Expertise in developing distributed computing (MS HPC, Sagemaker, Spark)
• Eight years of experience with integration and service frameworks (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices)
• Expertise with Microservices and REST based API development (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework, IIS, Swagger, Odata, .NET API 2, .NET API Core, AutoMapper)
• Experience leveraging continuous integration/development tools (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Containers, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container automation) in a Ci/CD pipeline
• Familiarity with modern frontend development frameworks (Angular, React, Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JS, CSS, Ajax)
• Advanced understanding of software development and research tools
• Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Technical communication skills and the ability to present information to all levels of the organization
• Problem-solving and technical communication skills
• Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TypeScript/React, Node.js, and APIs
• Knowledge of AI-Assisted Engineering
• Experience with enterprise modernization
• Experience coaching engineers in a Scaled Agile environment
• Experience with analytics, ML, or streaming architectures
• Financial services knowledge
• Experience with Six Sigma

Working Conditions

• Hybrid - Office Environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays)
• Work outside of normal business hours may be required
• Moderate Travel 10 to 25%

What We Offer

• Competitive Pay
• Bonus for Eligible Employees
• Benefits Package
• Pension Plan
• 401k Match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Insurance
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Career Training & Development Opportunities
• Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits
• Compensation