Principal Software Engineer - API

Principal Software Engineer - IE06GE

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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal API Software Engineer to join our team. This role is a hands-on technical position with a focus on tackling complex technical challenges and providing high-level guidance and coaching to upskill a team of engineers. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in software engineering, API development, and integrations, with a passion for coding and full-stack development. A key focus will be enabling enterprise API modernization, working with distributed teams to enable federated API management, and operationalizing innovative technical solutions involving new technologies, including GenAI.

Responsibilities

• API Software Engineering Leadership: Principal Engineer for the API Enablement Team, providing guidance on API solutions, API Gateway configuration, and administration on platforms such as API Connect, Apigee, Azure API Management, and Amazon API Gateway.
• Engineering Excellence and Results Focus: Lead and actively participate in software development and technical leadership. Develop, test, and deploy technical components that deliver significant value and impact.
• Innovative Solutions and Developer Experience: Create technical solutions to enable federated teams to accelerate API delivery and enhance experiences for API Providers, API Consumers, and API Administrators.
• API Governance and Quality: Ensure the scalability, performance, and security of APIs, with a focus on code quality, security, performance, and documentation. Lead API governance practices, champion higher quality API code and strengthen DevOps.
• Reliability and Incident Management: Drive SRE practices in the context of APIs and integrations, ensuring reliability, availability, and performance. Lead incident management, structured triage, and analysis, including the creation and management of incident runbooks. Participate in on-call rotations for incidents and changes, including evenings and weekends.
• Innovation and POCs: Ideate and execute high-value Proof of Concepts (POCs) to drive innovation and improvement, including leveraging GenAI. Stay atop industry trends and best practices in API development and integration.
• Communication, Problem-Solving, and Adaptability: Build strong relationships with federated API Management Teams. Prepare and present at forums, meetings, and events. Utilize excellent problem-solving skills to address technical challenges and improve API development processes.
• Coach and upskill of engineering team members: Coach other engineering team members and contribute to a positive and engaging culture of excellence and continuous learning.
  
  

This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office (Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).

Qualifications

• 8 years of technical experience, engineering, application management and operations roles with a demonstrated track record of technical innovation and experience leading technically diverse teams. Prior experience leading engineering teams as a Principal Software Engineer or equivalent roles.
• 5 years of deep API and integration experience including hands-on expertise with deep experience in API platforms such as API Connect, Apigee, and AWS API Gateway.
• Deep knowledge of API design principles and best practices, including industry-standard specifications such as Open API (Swagger), JSON, REST, and GraphQL.
• Extensive experience in API lifecycle management, cloud technology, and microservices architecture. Proven expertise in event-driven architecture, SOA, and service integration buses like IBM DataPower and IBM ACE.
• Proficient in API security solutions and frameworks, including API token management, user access control using OAuth2 and JWT, OpenID Connect, IAM, Identity Management, authentication, and authorization.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate the value of APIs across many stakeholder communities to enable APIs to drive business value. Proven ability to drive the adoption of APIs as products, focusing on reusability, composability, and modernization.
• Cloud engineering across public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, etc.
• Experienced in Incident Management, Structured Problem Solving, and SRE. Able to be on rotation for 24x7 on-call for complex issues. Experience with Performance and Observability tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, and related tools.
• Experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, Rally, SonarQube etc.
• Demonstrate proficiency and leadership in Principal Software Engineering roles or similar roles. Highly skilled, full-stack Software Engineer with the ability to create technical solutions, including coding, automated testing, deployment, SRE, and run.
• Demonstrated knowledge of programming languages (such as Java, Python, etc.), low-code, no-code solutions such as Microsoft Power Suite, front-end development (such as React), and architectural patterns.
• Strong communication, relationship building and collaboration skills including content development, presentations, playbook creation, etc.
• Coaching, leading engineering teams in upskilling, and developing engineering staff.
• Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in the insurance industry and productization of insurance business capabilities.
• Experience with Generative AI (GenAI) and Agentic AI.
  
  

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:

$166,560 - $249,840

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