Software Engineer, Principal

Overview

Blackbaud’s IT Software Development team builds and manages software and services critical to our company’s business operations. We are trusted business partners, first-class software engineers, and digital transformation leaders empowering Blackbaud to keep pace with a rapidly changing technology landscape.

We are looking for a dynamic, high-performing Principal Software Engineer to join our IT Software Engineering team. Our software engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams with other back end and front-end engineers, DevOps, product managers, and IT infrastructure teams to build innovative solutions.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the IT Software Engineering team, you will be developing both our Customer-facing web applications and back-end systems that power modern interactions between Blackbaud’s Customers and our IT systems. Your success in this area will have a direct impact on our customers’ experience working with Blackbaud, and consequently, their ability to succeed in their missions.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build software systems using technologies like .NET Core, C#, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Node, Azure cloud resources, and REST APIs.
• Develop integrations between core systems, including Salesforce, Workday, and Blackbaud’s Engineering System
• Administer the API Documentation Libraries using 'Swagger / OpenAPI' (Swashbuckle)
• Work with a Scrum team to groom, plan, and deliver work while guiding the technical design and implementation
• Work with business stakeholders to research and define requirements for new features
• Solve defects within our operational software baseline and ensure technical debt is identified, tracked, and planned as part of the Scrum process
• Support existing structures and pipelines
• Improve software quality through techniques like adherence to software standards, static analysis scanning, unit testing, logging, proactive alerting, and monitoring
• Deliver documented results of improving the operating efficiency and security posture of our software development life cycle environment
• Work directly with stakeholders to understand their needs and identify areas of opportunity.
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Explore emerging technologies and apply new learning to improve how we build systems through refactoring, modernizing technology, and automation.
  
  

• 8+ yrs. experience in Software Development
• Fundamental understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Understanding of secure coding practices based on OWASP standards
• Experience with Microsoft C# / .NET
• Experience building and consuming REST Web Services Experience working with code versioning, GIT preferred
• Experience with developing applications using Angular
• Experience designing and building solutions in a microservice ecosystem
• Understanding and know how to apply agile principles, practices, and patterns
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Experience developing code that runs within a cloud environment (preferably Azure)
• Working knowledge of best-of-breed techniques and architectures
• Experience with Microsoft Azure PaaS, such as App Services or AKS, Cosmos, SQL, Service bus, and Storage Accounts
• Able to work flexible hours as required by business priorities
  
  

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