Frost Bank

Principal Engineer

Frost Bank$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience developing technical solutions
  • Strong experience with enterprise programming languages (Java, Python, Go, C#)
  • Proven experience in designing solutions within service-based architectures
  • Demonstrated ability to influence architecture in large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience mentoring multiple teams
  • Knowledge in building systems in regulated environments

Responsibilities

  • Lead architectural changes ensuring solutions are scalable and secure
  • Craft strategic technical direction for programming functions
  • Design and implement algorithms for high-performance banking systems
  • Coach teams in creating elegant, domain-aligned solutions
  • Act as a consultant on major initiatives aligning with organizational goals
  • Translate business specifications into technically sound designs
  • Mentor engineers across teams to elevate technical standards
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and security teams to align priorities

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Generous holiday and paid time off schedule
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Extensive health and wellness programs
  • Referral bonus program
Full Job Description
Job Description

Who you are:

As aPrincipal Engineerat Frost, you are a subject matter expert. You will lead changes in architecture, methodology, or programming procedures. Our principal engineers believe in collaboration, ingenuity, and truly want to drive development across the organization. You welcome a challenge and are not afraid to troubleshoot and find solutions with integrity, caring, and excellence in mind at all times.

What youll do:

  • Lead changes in architecture, methodology or programming procedures by defining and evolving architectural direction, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with longer-term maintainability
  • Assist in crafting the strategic technical and architectural direction for programming functions by guiding complex, cross-team initiatives, clearly articulating tradeoffs, risks, and design approaches aligned with enterprise standards
  • Design and implement efficient algorithms and new approaches for banking systems, influencing the development of high-performance and resilient platforms that support critical business capabilities and perform under stress
  • Drive the development of elegant solutions to complex problems by coaching teams to design domain-aligned services, emphasizing clear ownership boundaries, well-defined integration contracts, minimal coupling, and responsible management of technical debt
  • Act as a prime consultant on large initiative that influence the organizations long-term goals by establishing engineering guardrails, reviewing solution designs, and reinforcing best practices in security, resiliency, observability, and operational readiness
  • Acquire detailed specifications from business users and development teams to ascertain specific output by translating business intent into technically sound designs
  • Mentor and influence engineers across teams, raising the overall technical bar without relying on direct authority
  • Partner across engineering, product, and security to align priorities and remove delivery friction
  • Always take action using Integrity, Caring, and Excellence to achieve all-win outcomes

What youll need:

  • Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, in a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrated ability to develop technical solutions, typically requiring a minimum of 8 years of experience
  • Strong experience with enterprise languages such as Java, Python, Go, or C#
  • Demonstrated experience independently identifying issues and designing solutions within domain-oriented, service-based architectures
  • Proven ability to designing and influencing architecture across large-scale, distributed systems
  • Experience leading and mentoring multiple teams and efforts
  • Experience building systems in regulated environments with a strong understanding of secure engineering practices
  • Current knowledge of emerging market trends,reliability practices, and development frameworks that improve application security
  • Strong understanding of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures associated with programming

Additional Preferred Skills:

  • Demonstrated experience in financial services or other regulated industries Exposure to security testing or advanced threat scenarios

Our Benefits:

At Frost, we care about your health, your family, and your future and strive to have our benefits reflect that. This includes:

  • Medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Generous holiday and paid time off schedule
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Extensive health and wellness programs, including our Employee Assistance Program
  • Referral bonus program + more!

About Frost Bank

Frost Bank is a subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., a financial holding company, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The company provides a wide range of banking, investments, and insurance services to businesses and individuals in Texas. Frost Bank has over 130 branches across Texas and offers online banking services to its customers. The bank was founded in 1868 by Thomas Claiborne Frost and has been serving Texans for over 150 years.
Learn more about Frost Bank
Size
4,553 employees
Market Cap
$8.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$331.1 million
Founded
1973
5 Year Trend
+5.1%
NASDAQ

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