Principal Software Engineer (Corporate Systems)
ProtolabsAbout the role
This is a fixed hybrid role on-site Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at HQ in Maple Plain, MN
We are looking for a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our Global Technology Services (GTS) team, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our finance and procurement platforms. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact at scale—designing and delivering modern, resilient applications that power critical business operations across the organization.
In this role, you will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership, staying hands-on with development while guiding architecture, driving best practices, and influencing our long-term technology strategy. You’ll partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business needs into elegant, scalable solutions and help elevate the engineering team through mentorship and technical coaching.
This position is ideal for an experienced engineer who thrives at the intersection of innovation, leadership, and execution, and enjoys working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions truly matter.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, code, test, debug, implement, and document software applications
- Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery through Agile methodologies.
- Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentoring.
- Influence work direction that aligns with both engineer and company goals.
- Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
- Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
- Collaborate with other software engineers, technical product managers, and data architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain business applications.
- Appropriately applying engineering principles and concepts to area of specialization.
- Demonstrate creativity and ingenuity in applying engineering principles and practices
- Draw solutions from a wider range of experience
- Define technical approaches to project and act as lead on some projects and guide lower-level developers.
- Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
- Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.
- Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
- Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and in-budget.
- Interview and onboard new team members.
- Provide feedback on team members’ performance.
- Stay current on new technologies; research and evaluate a variety of software products.
- Perform additional tasks as assigned.
What It Takes
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or comparable professional experience in these fields
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience mentoring engineers of varying experience levels from intern to senior
- Experience providing work direction to others by aligning tasks to skillsets and company objectives
- Experience working with engineers to estimate tasks, plan projects, and schedule releases
- Experi
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