Principal Software Engineer (Remote)

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Take the next step in your journey at Inspira Financial. Guided by our mission to enable better health and greater wealth, we help businesses and individuals thrive today, tomorrow, and into retirement by strengthening and simplifying the health and wealth journey.
Serving more than 7 million clients and representing over $62 billion in assets, Inspira partners with thousands of employers, plan sponsors, recordkeepers, TPAs, and other institutional partners to help the people they support plan, save, and invest for a brighter future. Through solutions including automatic rollover services, health savings accounts, emergency savings, and custody services, Inspira is focused on delivering better outcomes for all. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com.
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Our growth and culture haven't gone unnoticed -- we've been recognized on Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000 for remarkable growth, and named to Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work and Gallagher's 2022 Best-In-Class Employer for our workplace culture and benefits.
Don't meet every single requirement? That's okay. We know growth comes from people who are willing to learn and challenge themselves, not just check every box. If you're energized and inspired by meaningful work, continuous development, and being part of a team that turns collective effort into real impact, we want to hear from you. We look forward to receiving your application.
Our office locations are designed to bring people together, foster collaboration, and build meaningful connections. While some roles are based at one of our office locations, remote status and role locations are subject to change, and relocation is not provided.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our growing team and contribute to our next-generation technology platform. This role is responsible for the full software development life cycle, from ideation to deployment. As a Principal Engineer, you will have relevant experience across a variety of tech stacks, cloud platforms, architecture and design patterns, development frameworks and third-party libraries. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical expertise, ability to understand customer needs and market trends, and possess excellent communication skills to collaborate with product leadership and other stakeholders. This individual must be a creative technologist, obsessed with creating seamless customer experiences, team player, organized, and able to thrive in a dynamic environment.
Our engineering team is built on the principle of humans over code. We are a tight-knit group of lifelong learners in a constant quest to be a team that is greater than the sum of its parts. Come join us!
Duties & Responsibilities
Understand product vision and translate the same into actionable initiatives for engineering teams.
Design, develop, and test software applications following best practices and established standards.
Collaborate with and influence Product Managers and Designers to drive creation of world-class market leading platforms.
Set short to medium term technical direction, creating plans to help achieve goals
Participate in and lead peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
Collaborate on architecture decisions, ensuring that we are adapting and evolving to meet organization’s scaling business needs
Coach and mentor software engineers to promote a culture of engineering excellence and ownership.
Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and stakeholders.
Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on time and within budget.
Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions.
Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in solution architecture and technology innovation.
Contribute towards defining and establishing benchmarks, metrics, and quality measures.
Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software, and provide end customer support as needed.
Other duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications
Education & Experience:
10+ years of experience in software or solution architecture roles, with a focus on designing and implementing complex, enterprise-level solutions using cloud platform
Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and architectural frameworks.
Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery patterns, Cloud foundational patterns, Observability patterns, Developer experience patterns.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
Technical Proficiency And Skills
Proficiency with:
js/React/TypeScript
Mobile Development Tools such as React Native
Apollo GraphQL
Git Version Control System
PostgreSQL
Docker Container
Enterprise development platforms, such as .Net framework
CI/CD Pipelines and Testing Automation Tools
Experience with one or more cloud platforms, such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Great attention to detail and organizational skills
Experience delivering individual and institutional client facing solutions; Web Portal(s), online payments, and third-party integrations
Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology
Expertise in delivering secure, high performance, fault tolerant, and high availability solutions
Experience with DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, SecDevOps, Containers, Serverless
Other Requirements
Infrequent travel (10%)
Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
Pay Range
$152,700-$205,000 per year
Compensation & Benefits
The compensation for this position will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive and bonus opportunities.
Inspira provides industry-leading benefits including, but not limited to: healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, paid time off, parental leave and an employee assistance program.

Work arrangement
Yes