Senior Software Engineer II, Platform Modernization Technology Enablement

Principal Financial Group
📍 Des Moines, IA, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted July 28, 2026

Job Description

**What You'll Do**

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join our Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) organization, supporting a critical modernization initiative across the enterprise. This role sits on a newly formed engineering enablement team, where you’ll help define, build, and scale enterprise integration patterns that will be used broadly across RIS and beyond.

In this role, you’ll operate as a hands-on engineer and technical leader, setting direction through example, designing reusable solutions and guiding other engineers through well-defined standards and patterns.

**You'll have the opportunity to:**

+ Design, build, and evolve enterprise integration patterns leveraging APIs, events, and messaging to support the RIS modernization effort
+ Partner closely with enterprise teams to enable scalable integrations using AWS-native services (e.g., EventBridge, SQS, Lambda, ECS/EKS)
+ Develop reusable, composable CDK constructs t...

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Job Details

  • Location Des Moines, IA
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date July 28, 2026
  • Application Deadline August 02, 2026