Job Description

Profile Summary:

The Principal Software Engineer is a technical expert and strategic leader who sets the direction for architectural decisions, engineering standards, and platform evolution. This role drives complex, high-impact initiatives and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring scalable, secure, and future-ready systems that align with enterprise goals.

Profile Description:

• Lead architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-grade systems and/or multiple platforms.
• Drive technical strategy, best practices and innovation across teams, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Act as a key decision-maker in technology evaluations, design patterns, and engineering practices.
• Partner with product, infrastructure, security, and other stakeholders to align engineering efforts with strategic goals.
• Mentor senior and lead engineers, cultivating a culture of excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Solve complex technical challenges involving large-scale data, distributed systems, and cross-domain integrations.
• Champion automation, cloud-native development, and observability at the enterprise level.
• Effectively represent engineering in executive-level planning and cross-team initiatives.

Knowledge & Experience:

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership capacity.
• Deep expertise in modern application architecture, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), and enterprise systems integration.
• Track record of leading complex technical projects with cross-functional impact.
• Extensive experience in mentoring senior and lead engineers.
• Strong strategic thinking, communication, and influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Compensation Pay Disclosure:

Voya is committed to pay that's fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.

The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate's geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

$149,820 - $198,370 USD

Be Well. Stay Well.

Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That's why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

What We Offer

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan - with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan - employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off - including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time - 40 hours per calendar year

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Critical Skills

At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

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