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About the Role

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will serve as a senior, hands-on technical leader focused on emerging technology and AI experimentation. You will design rapid prototypes, proofs of concept, and pilots; evaluate platforms, integrations, and architecture; and translate successful concepts into scalable solutions for delivery teams. Partnering across technology and the business, you will help shape technical standards, mentor engineers, solve complex challenges, and introduce innovative technologies and practices that improve development, quality, and delivery.

Responsibilities

Demonstrates exceptional proficiency in evaluating and applying artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (GenAI), agentic AI, and other emerging technologies in enterprise use cases.
Serves as a senior hands-on technical resource for Emerging Tech Labs, independently translating ambiguous opportunities into technical hypotheses, experiments, prototypes, and recommendations.
Provides advanced technical guidance across experiments and pilots while influencing technology choices, architecture patterns, and enterprise adoption decisions.
Partners with Enterprise Architecture to evaluate platform fit, integration strategy, security implications, governance considerations, and reusable patterns.
Mentors engineers and technical partners through advanced knowledge sharing while remaining an individual contributor with direct responsibility for technical execution.
Leads the technical design of proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and controlled pilots across a diverse range of technologies, platforms, and enterprise use cases.
Builds sufficient working software and integrations to validate technical feasibility, architecture assumptions, platform capabilities, and key risks without over-engineering experiments as production applications.
Creates concise design artifacts, experiment documentation, technical decision records, and reusable patterns that meet Enterprise Architecture and engineering standards.
Evaluates APIs, cloud services, AI platforms, data sources, vendor products, and emerging technology frameworks through hands-on technical testing.
Supports technical transition of validated concepts to the appropriate engineering, platform, or delivery teams with clear architecture and implementation guidance.
Writes high-quality, maintainable prototype code and applies appropriate engineering practices for the scope and risk of each experiment.
Uses modern build, integration, testing, source control, and automation practices to ensure experiments are reproducible, secure, and technically credible.
Conducts technical reviews of prototype code and integrations and provides actionable feedback to improve quality, reliability, and reuse.
Diagnoses and resolves sophisticated technical issues across applications, APIs, cloud services, AI platforms, data sources, and integration layers.
Identifies practical approaches for testing technologies where established enterprise patterns may not yet exist, clearly documenting assumptions, tradeoffs, constraints, and risks.
Determines when an experiment has produced sufficient evidence to recommend scaling, further evaluation, deferral, or stopping.
Remains at the forefront of emerging technologies and methodologies, including AI/ML, GenAI, agentic AI, intelligent document processing, and related enterprise platforms.
Identifies technologies and technical patterns that warrant enterprise experimentation and evaluates their relevance, maturity, limitations, and potential value.
Converts experiment takeaways into reusable technical guidance, platform recommendations, reference patterns, standards input, or decision criteria.
Provides expert input on experiment scope, technical feasibility, dependencies, data needs, risks, success criteria, and expected effort.
Plans and drives time-boxed technical experiments with clear learning objectives and decision-oriented outputs.
Balances speed of experimentation with appropriate engineering rigor, security, governance, and enterprise architecture requirements.
Collaborates with Enterprise Architecture, AI Strategy & Enablement, business sponsors, Security, Data, Risk, Legal, Procurement, platform teams, vendors, and delivery organizations.
Demonstrates exceptional oral, written, presentation, and listening skills, effectively explaining sophisticated technical concepts, experiment findings, tradeoffs, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrates prototypes and clearly communicates what was tested, what was learned, what remains uncertain, and the implications for enterprise adoption and transition.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering
10 years Software development experience
Demonstrates knowledge of and experience with relevant technologies and platforms aligned to the role
Holds applicable certifications aligned to the technology stack
Actively shapes our company culture (e.g., supporting employee resource groups, mentoring employees, volunteering, joining cross-functional projects)
Champions our cultural norms (e.g., willing to have cameras when it matters: helping onboard new team members, building relationships, etc.)
Demonstrates a company ownership mindset, thinking beyond boundaries of their own area
Travels as needed for role, including divisional / team meetings and other in-person meetings
Fulfills business needs, which may include investing extra time, helping other teams, etc
Please note we are hiring for this role remote anywhere in the United States with the following exceptions: Hawaii and Alaska.
Applicants must have authorization to work indefinitely in the US.
Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT Training Plans, etc.).

Skills

Cloud-native services (e.g., AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, S3)
Build, integration, and deployment tools (e.g., Jenkins, Maven)
Programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java/J2EE, Python, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, React)
Familiarity with cloud-native services and architectures (e.g., compute, storage, and database services)
Experience with software build, integration, and deployment tools
AI/ML
GenAI
Agentic AI
Intelligent document processing

Location

Arizona - Home Teleworkers
Alabama - Home Teleworkers
Arkansas - Home Teleworkers
California - Home Teleworkers
Colorado - Home Teleworkers
Connecticut - Home Teleworkers
Delaware - Home Teleworker
District of Columbia - Home Teleworkers
Florida - Home Teleworkers
Georgia - Home Teleworkers
Idaho - Home Teleworkers
Illinois - Home Teleworkers
Indiana - Home Teleworkers
Iowa - Home Teleworkers
Kansas - Home Teleworker
Kentucky - Home Teleworkers
Louisiana - Home Teleworkers
Maine Home Teleworkers
Maryland - Home Teleworkers
Massachusetts - Home Teleworkers
Michigan - Home Teleworkers
Minnesota - Home Teleworkers
Mississippi - Home Teleworker
Missouri - Home Teleworker
Montana - Home Teleworkers
Remote

Work Type

Remote

Experience Level

10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering
10 years Software development experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering

Salary/Compensations

The national average salary range for this position is $177,525.00-$197,250.00.
The starting pay range for this position across all the states we hire in is $177,525.00-$236,650.00.
Colorado Specific Job Range :$177,525.00 - $216,950.00

Benefits

Total compensation package
Annual bonus eligibility for most roles
401(k) with a company match

About the Company

CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), a AAA insurer, is one of the leading personal lines property and casualty insurance groups in the United States.
Here, every employee shapes our mission.
We build innovative, human-centered solutions that help AAA members prevent, prepare for, and recover from life's uncertainties.
You will join a collaborative, inclusive culture where your strengths have room to grow and your ideas can drive real impact.
Step into a role where you can contribute to our shared success through meaningful work.
At CSAA IG, we are a mission-driven organization proudly committed to empowering our members, our employees, and our communities to thrive.
We believe in growth for everyone. Here at CSAA IG, leaders and mentors partner with employees to align interests, unlock development opportunities, and support long‑term success.
We embrace a remote-first culture through our Flexible Workplace.
Our flexible workplace empowers you to balance remote work with intentional in‑person moments that deepen connection and collaboration.
An inclusive and welcoming workplace is the cornerstone of our success.
By fostering an environment where people feel valued and heard, we deepen our ability to understand and meet the unique needs of our members.
This strengthens innovation and enhances our products and services, giving us a competitive edge in the market.
As climate change leads to more frequent and severe weather events, we are taking bold action to build more resilient communities and reduce our environmental impact.

Equal Opportunity

CSAA Insurance Group is an equal opportunity employer.