Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer

It's about creating solutions that help people.

Are you never satisfied with good enough? Do you always looking for innovative ways to help people? Do you like having the autonomy to build new solutions from the ground up? If so, being a Principal Engineer at Frost could be the job for you.

At Frost, it's about more than a job. It's about having a flourishing career where you can thrive, both in and out of work. At Frost, we're committed to fostering an environment that reflects our values and encourages team members to be the best they can be. In joining our adaptable, integrity-driven team, you'll become part of Frost's over 150-year legacy of providing unparalleled banking services.

Who you are:

As a Principal Engineer at Frost, you are a subject matter expert. You will lead changes in architecture, methodology, or programming procedures. Our principal engineers believe in collaboration, ingenuity, and truly want to drive development across the organization. You welcome a challenge and are not afraid to troubleshoot and find solutions with integrity, caring, and excellence in mind at all times.

What you'll do:

• Lead changes in architecture, methodology or programming procedures by defining and evolving architectural direction, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with longer-term maintainability
• Assist in crafting the strategic technical and architectural direction for programming functions by guiding complex, cross-team initiatives, clearly articulating tradeoffs, risks, and design approaches aligned with enterprise standards
• Design and implement efficient algorithms and new approaches for banking systems, influencing the development of high-performance and resilient platforms that support critical business capabilities and perform under stress
• Drive the development of elegant solutions to complex problems by coaching teams to design domain-aligned services, emphasizing clear ownership boundaries, well-defined integration contracts, minimal coupling, and responsible management of technical debt
• Act as a prime consultant on large initiative that influence the organizations long-term goals by establishing engineering guardrails, reviewing solution designs, and reinforcing best practices in security, resiliency, observability, and operational readiness
• Acquire detailed specifications from business users and development teams to ascertain specific output by translating business intent into technically sound designs
• Mentor and influence engineers across teams, raising the overall technical bar without relying on direct authority
• Partner across engineering, product, and security to align priorities and remove delivery friction
• Always take action using Integrity, Caring, and Excellence to achieve all-win outcomes

What you'll need:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, in a related field, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to develop technical solutions, typically requiring a minimum of 8 years of experience
• Strong experience with enterprise languages such as Java, Python, Go, or C#
• Demonstrated experience independently identifying issues and designing solutions within domain-oriented, service-based architectures
• Proven ability to designing and influencing architecture across large-scale, distributed systems
• Experience leading and mentoring multiple teams and efforts
• Experience building systems in regulated environments with a strong understanding of secure engineering practices
• Current knowledge of emerging market trends, reliability practices, and development frameworks that improve application security
• Strong understanding of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures associated with programming

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in financial services or other regulated industries Exposure to security testing or advanced threat scenarios

Our Benefits:

At Frost, we care about your health, your family, and your future and strive to have our benefits reflect that. This includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Generous holiday and paid time off schedule
• Tuition reimbursement
• Extensive health and wellness programs, including our Employee Assistance Program
• Referral bonus program + more!

Since 1868, Frost has dedicated their expertise to provide exceptional banking, investment, and insurance services to businesses and individuals throughout Texas. Frost is one of the 50 largest U.S. banks by asset size and is a leader in banking customer satisfaction. At Frost, it's about being part of something bigger. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply and see what's possible at Frost.