Job ID: 11016
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Category: IT
Employment Type: Individual Consulting
Date Added: 12/05/2025
Job Type: Contract
Job Location: Remote
Overview:
The Principal Software Engineer role is accountable for the development and implementation of standards and processes around definition, development, test, analysis, and maintenance of software applications in support of the business. This includes processes and standards on writing, coding, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications. The Principal Software Engineer will also lead the effort to research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the development life cycle.
Responsibilities:
Software Development: Leads the research, identifies, analyzes, and fulfills requirements of all internal and external stakeholders for new or existing software applications. Identifies risk and recommendations, drives the software engineering schedule, and leads the effort in performing software improvements and upgrades. Is accountable for well written code to enhance functionality and/or performance of software applications and for oversight of software testing on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors and general debugging. Collaborates with architects to develop, maintain code quality, and architecture standards.
Project Team Work: Drives the definition of software development project plans, including scoping, estimates, and implementation. Is accountable for standards and reusable process development for all software engineering. Provides technical advice, instruction and training to software engineers with less experience.
Issue Resolution: Drives highest level support for incoming incident tickets from end users to resolve application and software issues. Collaborates with peers, managers and customers to resolve problems with software products or company software systems. Is accountable for delivering solutions to problem areas.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, Business, or area of functional responsibility preferred, or a combination of equivalent education and experience
• Minimum of 6 years of software engineering experience required. Extensive experience in all aspects of application development and project life cycles
• Excellent understanding and proven experience of coding methods and best practices
• Proven experience in object oriented programming and in multiple development technologies with proven ability to maintain software products written in different languages and platforms
• Fluent with .Net/C# and related development tools
• Experience with responsive UI design tools such as Angular JS/jQuery/Bootstrap
• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017+ or Visual Studio Code
• Proficient with SQL technologies
• Extensive database (relational and hierarchical) and operating systems experience
• Experience with Test Driven Development
• Good experience in driving an application architecture
• Deep experience using source code management system (Git preferred)
• Proficiency with office productivity tools such as Microsoft Excel, Word and Visio
Preferred Qualifications:
• Working knowledge of MS Azure DevOps
• ASP.Net Core MVC web development
• Working knowledge of Agile Scrum development methodology across multiple locations
• Experience with RESTful / microservice architectures
• Experience with Vue.js and Webpack
• Experience working with DevOps teams
The projected hourly range for this position is $75 to $95.
On-Demand Group (ODG) provides employee benefits which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance. ODG is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.