principal Software engineer

Why Work Here

• Headquarters is in Charlotte, NC
• Recently expanded to nearshore and Offshore
• isolved ranked for SMB Payroll in 2023 Sapient Report
• Voted top places to work in USA 2023
  
  

Job Description

The isolved Principal Software Engineer designs and implements complex functionality. Provides frequent guidance and support to other developers, is subject matter expert of multiple application areas, and plays a leadership role on one or more scrum teams. The successful candidate will participate on an agile team to estimate and groom backlog items. They will be responsible for ensuring that the end product meets the minimum quality standards, is fully functional, and user-friendly.

Core Job Duties

• Modernizing and extending an established Angular and TypeScript progressive web application, improving its architecture, patterns, and maintainability while preserving existing behavior
• Building responsive, accessible, and mobile-first interfaces with strong attention to performance
• Improving and maintaining progressive web app capabilities, including offline support, service workers, and client-side caching
• Establishing and elevating front-end quality across the team, including component structure, state management, and performance
• Performing code reviews to ensure implementations meet quality standards and follow established patterns
• Collaborating with product management and UX design to translate experience goals into scalable technical solutions
• Integrating cleanly with isolved's .NET REST API service layer
• Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, including load times, rendering performance, and client-side resource management
• Raising the bar on modern front-end development practices across the team through code reviews, pairing, and leading by example
• Using AI-assisted development tools, including agentic coding, spec-driven development, and AI-augmented code review, as a core part of your daily workflow to maximize velocity and code quality, and to ramp on and modernize an existing codebase
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years developing web applications
• 3+ years developing cloud-native applications
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as part of professional development workflows
• Demonstrated ability to ramp on and improve an established codebase. Be prepared to walk through a specific example
• Ability to work independently to research and solve complex problems
• Strong skills in:
• Angular and modern TypeScript
• Progressive web app development, including service workers and offline support
• Component-driven UI architecture
• State management patterns, including RxJS
• CSS architecture
• Responsive, mobile-first, and accessible web design
• Front-end performance
• Experience with:
• RESTful API consumption and integration with a .NET service layer
• Azure
• SOLID principles
• Unit and integration testing for front-end applications
• Experience with the following a plus:
• Modernizing or upgrading a mature Angular application
• Native app-store packaging of a web application, including iOS and Android wrappers
• Design system integration and component libraries
• Accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1)
• Performance profiling and optimization tools
  

About Isolved

isolved is an employee experience leader, providing intuitive, people-first HCM (Human Capital Management) technology. Our solutions are delivered directly or through our partner network to more than five million employees and 145,000 employers - who use them every day to boost performance, increase productivity, and accelerate results while reducing risk. Our HCM platform, isolved People Cloud, seamlessly connects and manages the employee journey across talent management, HR & payroll, workforce management and engagement management functions. No matter the industry, we help high-growth organizations employ, enable and empower their workforce by transforming employee experience for a better today and a better tomorrow. For more information, visit www.isolvedhcm.com.

EEO Statement

isolved is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. isolved is a progressive and open-minded meritocracy. If you are smart and good at what you do, come as you are.

Disability Accommodation

Visit www.isolvedhcm.com/careers for more information regarding our incredible culture and focus on our employee experience. Visit www.isolvedeebenefits.com for a comprehensive list of our employee total rewards offerings.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions outlined above.

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