Principal Software Engineer

nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking.

This role will spearhead the development efforts of the International Mortgage Solution Team. The Principal Software Engineer leads the planning, designing, development and testing of complex software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools. Guides team to support clients' project objectives. Troubleshoots client issues as they arise. Exhibit exceptional mastery of industry-leading software engineering practices, encompassing a deep understanding of advanced technical concepts, architectural design, and the ability to drive innovation. Expertise should span multiple programming languages, frameworks, and technologies relevant to the software stack of multiple teams. Expected to be a key influencer in shaping our company's technical strategy, participating in cross-functional collaborations, and leading critical initiatives to ensure the continuous advancement and success of our software development endeavors.

Essential Functions:

• Bring a broad perspective to multiple teams, ensuring efficient delivery of critical features, providing technical guidance, and promoting higher performance within the group.
• Actively participate in process improvement and mentor emerging technical leaders while contributing to new technical initiatives.
• Advise on selecting the appropriate technology stack, considering scalability, maintainability, performance, and integration capabilities. 
• Contribute to defining new code standards and development processes, lead cross-team, framework-level projects.
• Maintain interactions with customers to help streamline project requirements.
• Bring experience and knowledge of industry best practices to ensure the proposed ideas align with the latest advancements in technology and software design principles, as well as the organization's business objectives.
• Develop optimal automation strategies for the team. Help the team make informed architectural decisions on by providing insights into trade-offs of different solutions.
• Architect services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
• Anticipate future use cases and makes design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.
• Review epics and initiatives critically and ensures they’re appropriately broken down, prioritized, and understood by the team.
• Anticipate and communicate blockers, delays, and cost ballooning within team projects before they require escalation.
• Ensure expectations with their team and external stakeholders are clarified between all parties involved.
• Develop a strategic launch and release plan with cross functional teams.
• Promote cross-team collaboration focused on taking end to end solutions to market and supporting Go-live activities.
• Analyze adoption of product and lead how to improve customer journey by applying solutions to address new enhancement requests.
• Lead by example in setting and maintaining best practices in coding, documentation, and code reviews. Focus on creating learning opportunities for multiple teams to help reduce new system hygiene issues in feature development.
• Provide guidance and mentorship on managing dependencies at an organizational level, promoting consistent practices and version control.
• With a strategic mindset, align hygiene initiatives with broader goals, foster cross-departmental collaboration, and contribute to sustainable best practices for robust software ecosystems.
• Identify proof-of-concepts to demonstrate key functionality or validate critical technical aspects.
• Exhibit exceptional mastery of industry-leading software engineering practices, encompassing a deep understanding of advanced technical concepts, architectural design, and the ability to drive innovation. Expertise should span multiple programming languages, frameworks, and technologies relevant to the software stack of multiple teams.
• Serve as a technical visionary, staying at the forefront of emerging industry trends and leveraging this knowledge to guide our technology roadmap
• Ability to mentor and lead developers

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 8+ years of related experience/proficiency {can we call out proficiency in essential requirements vs. year} or a combination of education and experience
• Expert knowledge in one or more programming languages and strong experience with multiple technology stacks.
• Expert knowledge of web application development
• Specialized ability to create enterprise-scale application designs using proven industry patterns and best practices
• Exceptional problem solving, decision-making, and interpersonal skills
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Desired:

• In Depth Experience in Ruby on Rails
• Experience with Node.js for server-side development.
• Demonstrated experience designing RESTful APIs as scalable products
• Proven experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure
• Comprehensive understanding of serverless architecture design and implementation

If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino.

The pay range for this role is based on relative market data and alignment with our compensation philosophy. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum of the pay range for each job posting, which is used to determine new hire rates/salaries and takes into consideration multiple factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills, abilities, proficiencies, experience, education, licensures/certifications, as well as business and organizational needs. nCino reserves the right to modify the posted range consistent with our internal practices and external market movement. The recruiter for this job posting can share more compensation details during the recruitment process, as base salary is only one component of the total compensation package per position posted.

The base salary range for this job is:

$112,600.00 - $197,100.00

nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at [email protected]. 

Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success.  We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.