Principal Software Engineer - Personal Lines

Principal Software Engineer - IE06GE

We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.

The Principal Software Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for setting technical direction and delivering complex, high‑impact software solutions within Personal Insurance. The role requires hands‑on technical leadership, architectural ownership, and innovation, ensuring solutions are designed with quality, scalability, reliability, and security from the outset. This position partners closely with Product, Architecture, Reliability Engineering/Operations, Dev Sec Ops , and Quality Engineering to deliver measurable business value through disciplined engineering practices and technical excellence.

• Serve as a technical authority for complex Personal Insurance systems across front-end, back-end, integration, and data layers.

• Define and evolve solution architectures that align with enterprise standards and enable scalable, resilient delivery.

• Ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, security, resiliency, maintainability, and operational readiness.

• Drive modernization of legacy systems into cloud‑native, API‑driven, and event‑based architectures.

• Remain deeply hands‑on by contributing production‑quality code, technical designs, prototypes, and reference implementations.

• Lead resolution of complex technical issues, including high‑severity production incidents and systemic design concerns.

• Establish and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices across teams.

• Champion strong SDLC and Dev Ops practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automation‑first delivery, and environment hygiene.

• Partner with Dev Sec Ops  and Reliability Engineering to embed observability, monitoring, alerting, and resiliency practices into solutions.

• Ensure applications are production‑ready and supportable, with appropriate controls and documentation.

• Act as a quality bar‑raiser, ensuring quality is engineered into solutions rather than validated solely through testing.

• Define and enforce quality engineering expectations across the lifecycle, including clear Definition of Ready and Definition of Done criteria.

• Promote shift‑left practices such as test‑driven development, in‑sprint automation, and design‑for‑testability.

• Partner with Quality Engineering (SDET) to drive effective automation strategies and reduce escaped defects.

• Lead root‑cause analysis of recurring defects and quality trends, driving systemic improvements.

• Conceptualize new ideas, approaches, and technical solutions to address business and technology challenges.

• Translate ambiguous problems into clear technical hypotheses and solution options.

• Lead Proof of Concept (POC) efforts to validate feasibility, quantify impact, and demonstrate value.

• Develop clear value propositions for POCs, including benefits, risks, costs, and recommendations.

• Present POC outcomes and recommendations to senior technology and business stakeholders to inform decision‑making.

• Advocate responsible experimentation with emerging technologies, including AI‑enabled development capabilities.

• Partner with Product Owners to validate requirements, influence technical prioritization, and align solutions with business objectives.

• Manage technical dependencies across teams and release trains; proactively identify and elevate risks.

• Provide clear, concise updates to senior leadership on architecture decisions, technical risks, and delivery readiness.

• Mentor and guide engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, and knowledge sharing, without formal HR management accountability.

• 14+ years of experience in enterprise application development.

• Strong technical…