Principal Software Engineer

Loan Depot is looking for a Principal Software Engineer that will be responsible for delivering senior level innovative, compelling, coherent software solutions for our consumer, internal operations and value chain constituents across a wide variety of enterprise applications through the creation of discrete business services and their supporting components. This position has an emphasis either on the front-end or backend development focus depending on the placement of the role and team.

Expert-level C#/.NET experience building and scaling enterprise-grade systems

Expert in SQL and relational database design, including performance tuning (MS SQL Server preferred)

Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native architectures (critical)

Proven expertise in service-oriented and microservices architectures, Web APIs (REST, JSON)

Deep knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and object-oriented principles

Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system-level performance considerations

Extensive experience with Agile development (Scrum, Kanban) and scaled Agile environments

Demonstrated technical leadership, cross-team influence, and active mentorship of senior engineers

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, distributed version control, and modern development tooling

Strong focus on code quality, testability, and engineering standards across teams * B.S. in Computer Science or B.S. Software Engineering or B.A. in Computer Information Systems or equivalent education or experience.

• Minimum ten (10) + plus years of relevant technology job experience.

• Experience in the Mortgage industry preferred.