Principal Engineer (Remote)

**Remote Work Welcome**

Be part of a transformative team that is shaping the way First American builds and delivers world-class technology products that fuel the real estate industry. We are looking for the best-of-the-best technology experts who will envision, design, build, and deliver innovative solutions that provide exceptional experiences and lasting value to our customers.  

First American is seeking software engineering candidates to grow our team. An ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, a product mindset, and takes a hands-on approach to building high-quality and sustainable software products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead projects as part of a small, focused engineering delivery team, to build fast, clean, reliable code that drives business value for our customers. You will be a part of a transformative team, whose mission is to modernize our core Title & Settlement Platform using modern tools, techniques, and cloud-native services. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Code: You will be an active contributor to the codebase, designing, developing, testing, and deploying code supporting our most complex functional areas. You will architect and implement modern world-class services that are scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant. 

• Collaborate/Partner: Partner with product management to envision future features and help plan product roadmaps. Define solution architectures that align with business needs in collaboration with product management and engineering. Facilitate collaborative design discussions and drive design reviews. 

• Leadership: Have a clear vision for the product/project and can develop a long-term strategy to achieve the goals. Provides technical expertise in software development and makes informed decisions about the technical architecture and design to deliver for the business. Champion technology and architecture-related investments, advocating for the priority of this work. 

• Operational Excellence: Implement solutions that are high-quality, secure, and observable. Be an active member of the team contributing to reviews of design, code, artifacts and metrics. 

• Continuous Improvement: Determined to achieve ambitious goals, providing regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement. Assist with improving architectural standards & best practices. Build proof-of-concepts to validate architectural approaches and assess emerging technologies. 

What You’ll Bring: 

• 12+ years of technical engineering stewardship, with 5-10+ years of experience in large-scale distributed system development,including hands-on operational expertise.

• Experience driving engineering best practices for high-functioning software engineering teams through effective use of tools and automation. 

• Passion and expertise for building large-scale, back-end services and APIs, using modern architectures (Macro / Mini / Micro Services). 

• Demonstrable knowledge of data structures, asynchronous architectures,and distributed algorithms. 

• A strong understanding of software engineering principles and modern infrastructure operations. 

• Ability to build robust, high-scale, generic, and reusable solutions. 

• Experience mentoring and training an engineering community on development best practices. 

• Familiarity with deployment and observability strategies that support continuous delivery and high availability in a cloud-native environment. 

• An outcome-oriented approach using metrics and data to understand development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage, etc.) that inform areas for continuous improvement. 

• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with strong relationship, collaborative, and organizational skills. 

Ideally, you will also have experience with: 

• 12+ years of hands-on coding in any modern language and technology stack.

• C# and .NET, React and Node.js.

• Relational (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB) databases. 

• Automated software testing (unit, integration, contract). 

• Infrastructure automation tooling such as Terraform and Ansible. 

• AWS Cloud Services: API Gateway, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, ECR, EC2 Container. Service, S3, Elastic File System, Lambda, RDS, Application Load Balancer, Step. functions, SQS, Kinesis, SNS, EventHub, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, Secrets. Manager, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Transit Gateways. 

• Working within a highly regulated industry such as Financial Services or Healthcare. 

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skillsrequired ofpersonnel so classified.All personnel maybe requiredto perform duties outside theirregularwork hoursand/or responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Pay Range: $190,000-$230,000

This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements, and geographic location.