Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Position Title: Staff Software Engineer (IC4a)
Location : Considering candidates who live within a 50-mile commutable distance of our client’s corporate offices in Baltimore, MD; Charlotte, NC; Wilmington, DE; Dallas, TX; or Evansville, IN
Duration: 6 with possible conversion to FTE
Employment Type: Contract role on W-2 through Above and Beyond Talent Acquisition, Inc. (A&B Talent)
Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 3x per week in office
Pay Rate : $80.00 to $85.00

Client Info / Who they are:
Above and Beyond Talent Acquisition represents the country’s largest lending-exclusive financial company, serving millions with safe, affordable installment loans through 1,500 branches in 44 states. For over 100 years, their dedicated team has helped customers improve their financial lives with responsible, transparent solutions for debt, medical bills, home improvements, and auto purchases.

Who we are looking for / Requirements:

• Strong experience (7+ years) in full-stack web development, with a particular focus on proficiency in the presentation layer.
• Experience building and maintaining high-traffic, consumer-facing websites running on public cloud systems (E.g. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure).
• Knowledgeable and skilled in integrating frontend technologies with the API layer (i.e. RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints) and relational / non-relational databases.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to thrive in a collaborative team setting.
• Strong DevOps experience, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, monitoring, and production operations
• Programming Skills: Node.JS, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Python

Performance Objectives / What you'll be doing:

• Setting technical direction for application development teams spanning OMF’s marketing content and loan acquisition workflow. Working in close coordination with product, technology and enterprise architecture to ensure alignment around design and execution of business-critical software initiatives.
• Defining detailed roadmaps for migrating monolithic systems into target-state technology comprising distributed systems and microservice deployments, built on resilient and scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Establishing standards and defining guardrails for technology teams around systems architecture, design patterns, code reusability, and technical debt.
• Evaluating the role of emerging technologies (E.g. GraphQL, agentic AI) in the context of existing SDLCs, and assisting with their adoption solutions for greater efficiency and faster time-to-market.
• Demonstrating leadership through influence via participation in communities of practice, proof-of-concept implementations, and mentoring other team members in engineering best practices.
• Balancing technical leadership & architectural responsibilities with hands-on development tasks based on team capacity and business needs.

Perks of working with US / What we offer:

• Health, dental, and vision benefits offerings
• 401K plan

The salary, other compensation, and benefits information are accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

“Above and Beyond Talent is an equal opportunity employer and staffing firm.”