Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fifth Third Bank is a financial institution that connects people to banking opportunities and serves customers and communities. The Principal Software Engineer designs and implements software solutions within an agile squad while leading architecture, engineering standards, and developer communities. The role also builds AI-enabled engineering capabilities, including developer tools, agentic workflows, orchestration patterns, and secure enterprise AI integrations.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement new features while improving quality of technical products and applications
- Create and execute long-term vision of technical products and applications
- Act as a technical expert and developer on an agile squad
- Drive the architecture of solutions across multiple services and applications
- Develop software meeting code quality standards and metrics
- Practice test-driven development
- Guide communities of practice by mentoring developers, creating and enforcing standards, reviewing others’ code, and sharing knowledge
- Achieve operational excellence by automating processes and writing maintainable, supportable, and testable code
- Maintain effective partnerships with operations and engineering teams to drive service improvement
- Remain current on IT trends pertaining to their area of practice
- Assist with problem resolution for end users and customers
- Create and update operations procedures for daily routine management processes
- Maintain appropriate controls and documentation to ensure compliance of audit requirements
- Design, build, and support AI-enabled software capabilities, including internal tools, developer assistants, copilots, and agentic workflows
- Define and implement orchestration patterns for AI agents, tools, APIs, prompts, memory, and workflow execution across enterprise systems
- Partner with architecture, security, risk, data, and engineering teams to establish guardrails for responsible AI development and usage
- Evaluate and integrate large language models, AI platforms, model providers, and related tooling into enterprise software delivery workflows
- Build reusable frameworks, services, and patterns that enable teams to safely adopt AI capabilities at scale
- Establish observability, logging, testing, and performance monitoring for AI-powered solutions and agentic workflows
- Ensure AI solutions meet enterprise standards for security, privacy, resiliency, explainability, and human oversight where appropriate
- Contribute to standards, reference architectures, and best practices for AI engineering, prompt design, tool use, and workflow orchestration
- Identify opportunities to improve developer productivity, automation, and customer outcomes through intelligent tooling and AI-assisted processes
- Mentor engineers on modern software engineering and emerging AI engineering practices
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or comparable with 8+ years of experience
- Knowledge of object-oriented and functional software design
- Knowledge of software development best practices
- Familiarity with RESTful networking
- Prior experience with knowledge of Git and GitHub
- Understanding of Software Development Methodologies
- Understanding of security best practices
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong collaboration skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience designing and implementing distributed systems, APIs, and service integrations
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and modern AI application patterns, including large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval patterns, and agentic workflows
- Experience building or integrating automation, workflow orchestration, or intelligent tooling into engineering or business processes
- Understanding of responsible AI principles, including model risk, privacy, security, human oversight, and governance considerations
- Ability to evaluate tradeoffs across software architecture, AI capabilities, operational support, and enterprise controls
- Experience defining technical standards, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices across teams
- Ability to work across product, engineering, architecture, security, and risk stakeholders to deliver scalable enterprise solutions
- Position not available for immigration sponsorship
Benefits
- This role is eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan, with any such payment based upon company, line of business and/or individual performance.
- Our extensive benefits programs are designed to support the individual needs of our employees and their families, encompassing physical, financial, emotional and social well-being.
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