Principal Software Engineer

West Monroe is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Product Experience and Engineering Lab (PXEL).

We eat, sleep, and breathe products. We invent, build, and scale product-led businesses within industries that have tremendous impact on peoples’ lives. We are shippers, makers, and craftspeople that come together to help organizations build human-centered products that people love using, every single day.

Responsibilities:

• Work in a collaborative team setting to support our clients and help solve their business problems through analysis of existing systems, applications, and processes
• Lead the development of software solutions across full lifecycle Agile projects – requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, and rollout
• Own the flexibility to be creative and have an impact on designs with a “blank slate” development mentality within the general boundaries of client expectations
• Build highly interactive and customized web, desktop, and/or mobile front-end and back-end applications
• Enjoy participating in all aspects of product development including generating ideas, prototyping and building solutions, talking to users, testing outcomes, and integrating learnings into future work
• Want to learn new languages, paradigms, patterns, and frameworks
• Enjoy using your creativity and resourcefulness to tackle unexpected challenges

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
• Consulting firm/industry experience preferred 
• 7-11+ years of experience in full-stack software development with preferred skills in:
  • Ruby on Rails, .NET, C#, Java, Python, etc
  • Entity Framework and various APIs
  • JavaScript, React.js, Angular, HTML/CSS
  • SQL Server, Azure, AWS, open source tools
• Experience designing and building web application user interfaces with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
• Experience with a commonly used back-end framework (e.g. Rails, Spring, .NET) and a commonly used front-end framework (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization tools (e.g., Docker), and/or orchestration systems (e.g., k8s)
• Deep understanding of software engineering concepts (requirements, development methodologies, testing and documentation) and an understanding of how technology applies to business concepts
• Well-versed in object-oriented design and development concepts
• Comfortable working within a fast-paced, collaborative, Agile/Scrum project environment
• Desire and ability to work towards leading a team of ~2-4+ software engineering consultants
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills

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