Accuris

Principal Software Engineer (Team Lead)

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Denver CO USA

In-Office

155K-170K Annually

Senior level

Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software • Conversational AI • Generative AI • Manufacturing

Enabling Digital Transformation in Engineering Organizations

The Role

Lead the technical direction for a cross-functional pod building cloud-native microservices and mentoring engineers while ensuring architectural integrity and operational efficiency.

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Job Title: Principal Software Engineer (Team Lead)
Location: Denver CO (Hybrid)
About Accuris:
Accuris was formed in May 2023 through the combination of S&P Engineering Solutions (formerly part of IHS Markit) and Techstreet bringing together over six decades of leadership in engineering standards technical content and workflow technology. Accuris transforms the world's largest repository of standards and supply chain data into AI-driven insights and connected workflows - enabling engineers to work smarter stay compliant and innovate faster
Position Summary:
We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer to serve as the hands-on technical lead for a new cross-functional pod (engineering product UX architecture and developer enablement). You'll set technical direction own key architectural decisions and mentor senior/staff engineers while shipping high-impact features for global customers. This is a broad product-focused role spanning services APIs data and UI-ideal for a systems thinker who enjoys building durable platforms and customer-visible value. You won't manage people; you'll lead through architecture code influence and outcomes.
Impact in your first 6-12 months:

Deliver the pod's v1/v2 services with measurable SLOs and robust dashboards
Cut lead time and incident rates through standards tooling and runbooks
Establish reusable libraries/templates that speed up other pods
Mentor engineers to raise design quality and operational excellence

Key Responsibilities:

Own the pod's technical strategy: clarify domain boundaries define target architecture and evolve systems using DDD.
Design & build cloud-native microservices in .NET (Core) on Kubernetes (AWS) with clean contracts and strong observability.
Ship end-to-end features across API data and front end (React/Angular) with a focus on performance accessibility and UX quality.
Raise the bar on operability: SLOs dashboards alerting runbooks; drive reliability scalability and cost efficiency.
Champion CI/CD and quality: automated tests (unit/integration/e2e) progressive delivery (blue/green canary) IaC.
Mentor & multiply: coach senior/staff engineers run design reviews steward coding standards and "golden paths."
Partner cross-functionally with Product/UX/SRE/Security and adjacent pods to deliver cohesive solutions and clear SLAs.
Make trade-offs explicit: communicate risks options and impact to technical and executive audiences.

Our Environment (you don't need every box):

Core: C#/.NET (Core) ASP.NET Web API/gRPC REST
Front end: React or Angular TypeScript HTML CSS (Tailwind/Bootstrap)
Cloud & runtime: AWS Docker Helm Kubernetes Linux; IaC (Terraform/CDK)
Data & eventing: SQL Server/PostgreSQL Redis; Kafka (eventing/outbox/CDC)
Search/analytics (nice): Elasticsearch/OpenSearch columnar/OLAP stores
DevEx & quality: Git CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions) test automation OpenTelemetry feature flags

Qualifications:

8+ years in software engineering with increasing scope; 3+ years leading delivery/architecture in agile product teams.
Proven experience building microservices at scale in .NET Core on a major cloud (AWS preferred).
Strong systems thinking: domain modeling API design data consistency performance resilience and security basics (OWASP).
Track record improving CI/CD test automation and operability (SLOs on-call readiness incident reduction).
Excellent communication and mentoring skills; ability to align diverse stakeholders and elevate engineering standards.
Multi-region/DR patterns zero-downtime migrations chaos testing.
Event-driven architectures with Kafka; idempotency/outbox patterns.
Observability at scale (OpenTelemetry) and cost/performance optimization.
Experience with search platforms (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) or analytics pipelines.

Compensation/Benefits Information:
The anticipated salary range for this position is $155000 to $170000. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual's geographical location as well as experience and qualifications for the role. In addition to base compensation this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan as well as comprehensive benefits. For more information on benefits please reach out to the recruiter assigned to the role.
About Company Statement:We provide the world's engineers mission-critical intelligence safeguarding the technology of today and enabling the breakthroughs of tomorrow. Accuris transforms the world's largest repository of standards and supply chain data into AI-driven insights and connected workflows - enabling engineers to work smarter stay compliant and innovate faster. Behind every world-changing innovation - there's Accuris - the most trusted intelligence platform for engineers. https://accuristech.com/
Accuris provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. 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
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Top Skills

.Net Core

Angular

AWS

CSS

Docker

Elasticsearch

HTML

Kafka

Kubernetes

Postgres

React

Redis

SQL Server

Terraform

Typescript

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The Company

HQ: Denver CO

1200 Employees

Year Founded: 1959

What We Do

Accuris empowers the next generation of engineers to solve tomorrow’s problems today. Our combination of trusted data insights and innovative technology solutions enable business and technical leaders to transform their workflows and make decisions with conviction - bringing their dreams to life in faster smarter and cleaner ways.

Why Work With Us

We’re a global team that strives to think differently – combining the knowledge and resources of an established company with the bold nature of a startup. If you’re eager to make a lasting impact to discover and bring to life new value and opportunities and have a bias toward action and learning you’re in the right place.