About Us:
insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions that unlock the potential of business data and transform the way finance and data teams operate. We empower leaders from over 32,000 organizations to make timely and intelligent decisions. Our comprehensive solutions span Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Controllership, and Data and Analytics. We deliver finance teams the insights required to navigate any economic climate and drive greater financial intelligence, while increasing productivity, visibility, accuracy, and compliance. Learn more at insightsoftware.com.
Job Description:
Principal Software Engineer Job Description
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be leading technology execution amongst a team of skilled software engineers to build out and maintain our Equity Management SaaS Application.
You will be an expert amongst the team, responsible for ensuring the team is implementing correct solutions to new features, enhancements, and fixes to the product through work items planned in the current sprint and actively participating in planning, refinement, and retrospective meetings.
You will be working in a product team, alongside Engineers and QA Engineers, following an Agile SDLC to create new products and maintain existing applications with C#, .Net, Oracle PL/SQL. You will be a great fit for this position if quality is at the forefront of your development best practices and you are willing to continuously learn new things to better yourself, your career, and our products.
Responsibilities
- Be a leader amongst the team in solving complex software development items that meet customer expectations.
- Design and implement robust, scalable, and high-performing database solutions using Oracle.
- Write complex SQL queries and optimize them for maximum efficiency and scalability.
- Perform database tuning, monitoring, and optimization to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
- Design and develop database architecture, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures.
- Be involved with SDLC from requirements to test but own executing development of features & bug fixes that is clean, reusable, maintainable code in .Net, C# and PL/SQL.
- Build quality into all tasks, ensure adequate unit testing and support quality assurance engineers in testing completed items
- Lead, critique and coach others in code reviews and architecture discussions
- Lead cross team development efforts, identifying dependencies and resolving impediments other engineers encounter
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or equivalent work experience
8+ years of strong Backend API and Database experience with large scale, consumer facing, enterprise level applications
8+ years of experience in designing and developing SaaS web applications using .Net/.Net Core, C# and SQL (preferably in a product development organization)
- 5+ years of strong design and development experience in Oracle databases and PL/SQL
- Experience with AI assistance and agentic AI (Copilot, Claude.AI, Devin, Cursor)
- Expertise in creating logical and physical data models
- Expertise in SQL for database querying and manipulation
- Expertise in database optimization and performance to analyze database performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions to improve efficiency and scalability
- Good knowledge of database security principles and best practices
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to mentor Junior-level engineers in best practices
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience with GIT
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – written and verbal
- Strong collaboration skills
Preferred skills:
- Experience building apps in financial domain is a plus.
- Experience working in web applications built with .Net, Angular is a plus.
- Knowledge of data warehousing and ETL processes.
- Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, Azure, etc.) and Oracle Cloud solutions
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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