Principal Application Engineer

Piper Companies is seeking a Principal Application Engineer to join a Life Insurance company located in Frederick, MD with a Hybrid work schedule. The Principal Application Engineer will be focused on building modern, digital platforms.

Responsibilities of the Principal Application Engineer:

• Help design and build a leading digital life insurance platform
• Design scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions while setting engineering standards and mentoring other engineers
• Design and build full-stack web applications and distributed microservices (front-end and back-end)
• Research emerging technologies and present recommendations to architects and leadership to Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and SDLC standards

Qualifications for the Principal Application Engineer include:

• 10+ years of backend software design and development
• 3+ years designing and implementing distributed systems
• Strong experience with DevOps and maintaining live production services Cloud experience required
• Expert-level C#, .NET Core, and .NET Framework

Compensation for the Principal Application Engineer include:

• Salary Range: $140,000 - $190,000 Based on Experience
• 20% bonus
• Hybrid
• Comprehensive Benefits: Cigna Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO, Sick Leave if required by law, and Holidays

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