Principal Application Software Engineer

Description

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership skills, serving as a trusted technical advisor while remaining actively engaged in software design and development. This individual will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and platform teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet business and customer needs.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale software systems and services.

• Drive technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across multiple projects and teams.

• Serve as a technical lead for critical initiatives, providing guidance through design, development, testing, deployment, and operational support.

• Establish and promote software engineering best practices, coding standards, and design principles.

• Identify and mitigate technical risks while ensuring solutions meet scalability, reliability, and performance requirements.

Software Development

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend services and applications.

• Build and support distributed systems and microservices-based architectures.

• Ensure solutions are secure, maintainable, observable, and operationally efficient.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues while driving root-cause analysis and long-term improvements.

• Participate in code reviews and architectural reviews to maintain engineering excellence.

Team Leadership and Mentorship

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineers across the organization.

• Guide and support teams of approximately 5-6 engineers through technical execution and delivery.

• Foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous learning, innovation, and accountability.

• Assist in technical skill development, career growth, and knowledge sharing within the team.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Platform, Security, and Operations teams to deliver business value.

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Support planning, estimation, prioritization, and execution of strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

• 7-9+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Strong experience developing enterprise-scale backend systems using Java, Ruby, or other object-oriented programming languages.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, APIs, scalability, resiliency, and performance optimization.

• Experience building and supporting cloud-native applications in modern engineering environments.

• Proven experience serving as a technical lead, leading projects and mentoring engineers.

• Experience guiding and supporting teams of approximately 5-6 engineers through technical execution and delivery.

• Strong understanding of software design principles, data structures, algorithms, and system architecture.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and modern DevOps practices.

• Experience working in highly regulated environments requiring reliability, security, and compliance.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar engineering productivity platforms.

Success Factors

• Demonstrates strong technical leadership and sound architectural decision-making.

• Successfully delivers scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.

• Enables team success through mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance.

• Drives engineering excellence through best practices and continuous improvement.

• Effectively collaborates across organizations to achieve business and technical objectives.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $99,600 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.