Principal Java Developer

Principal Java Developer

Des Moines, Iowa (Hybrid)
Schedule: 4 Days Onsite | 1 Day Remote

A well-established financial institution is seeking a Principal Java Developer to provide hands-on technical leadership across a portfolio of enterprise applications. This is the highest-level individual-contributor engineering role on the application-development team and is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, mentoring developers, and influencing architecture without moving away from hands-on technology.

This is a direct-hire position located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The role follows a hybrid schedule requiring four days per week onsite and one remote day.

What You Will Do

• Design and guide enterprise application solutions using Java and the Spring ecosystem.
• Identify gaps in the current technical landscape and drive improvements.
• Provide architecture and solution-design leadership across concurrent projects.
• Mentor developers and help improve the team's overall technical maturity.
• Review technical approaches, code, integration designs, and engineering standards.
• Develop and support RESTful services, microservices, and data-driven applications.
• Design secure authentication and authorization solutions.
• Lead integrations involving APIs, message queues, and third-party applications.
• Help teams balance immediate delivery needs with long-term architecture and maintainability.
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point when the Application Development Manager is unavailable.
• Support critical production applications and participate in an approximately one-week-in-ten on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with business, product, architecture, security, vendor, and engineering stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field with at least 10 years of relevant experience, or at least 12 years of equivalent professional experience.
• Deep experience developing enterprise applications with Java 8 or later, preferably Java 11+.
• Strong experience with the Spring ecosystem, RESTful web services, and JPA/Hibernate.
• Architecture or solution-design experience, including authentication and authorization.
• Experience with microservices and message-based application integration.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or guiding developers.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, application architecture, and the software-development lifecycle.
• Experience with automated testing, builds, integration, and deployment.
• Experience working with CI/CD and release-management practices, preferably using GitLab.
• Experience with SQL and data-driven application design.
• Ability to work independently, switch between priorities, and make sound technical decisions with limited supervision.
• Willingness to work onsite four days per week and participate in on-call support.

Additional Technical Experience

Experience with several of the following is beneficial:

• Java EE
• Spring Boot
• Hibernate
• JUnit 5
• Mockito
• XML
• SQL
• JavaScript
• Angular
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• HTML and CSS
• Bootstrap or Foundation
• Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall delivery methods

Preferred Experience

• Banking, financial services, insurance, investment management, or another regulated industry.
• Implementation or integration of third-party enterprise applications.
• Experience with financial platforms such as SimCorp, Principia, MarkitWire, or comparable systems.
• Production support and after-hours incident resolution.

What Makes This Opportunity Distinctive

This role offers the opportunity to remain technically hands-on while operating as a trusted technical leader. You will have significant influence over solution quality, engineering standards, developer growth, and the future direction of the application landscape, without assuming direct people-management responsibilities.

Interested in learning more? Apply today.

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