Principal Software Development Engineer
About the job
- Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed software systems.
- Expertise across modern software architecture, cloud platforms, application programming interfaces, databases, and full-stack application development.
- Strong experience with modern software engineering practices, including continuous integration and continuous delivery, automated testing, DevSecOps, and observability.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives from concept through production.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
- Proven ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments while delivering measurable business outcomes.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
- At least 9 years of experience.
- Architect scalable, maintainable solutions for complex and loosely defined business problems while proactively identifying edge cases and technical risks.
- Partner directly with stakeholders to rapidly prototype and validate ideas, accelerating product discovery and feedback.
- Own the full software development lifecycle across backend services, application programming interfaces, data platforms, and user interfaces.
- Make pragmatic technology decisions that balance speed, quality, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
- Champion modern software architecture patterns and engineering best practices.
- Leverage agentic artificial intelligence tools throughout the software development lifecycle while maintaining ownership of code quality, correctness, and security.
- Design specification-driven workflows, automated quality gates, and deterministic validation processes for artificial-intelligence-assisted software development.
- Evaluate emerging artificial intelligence technologies and development practices, adopting solutions that improve team productivity and engineering outcomes.
- Promote responsible artificial intelligence usage by establishing standards for reliability, maintainability, and governance.
- Embed security, compliance, and privacy considerations into every stage of software development.
- Build highly reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications supported by comprehensive automated testing.
- Design and maintain modern continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for safe, repeatable, and efficient software delivery.
- Build observability into applications through logging, metrics, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and recovery strategies.
- Ensure production systems are measurable, debuggable, resilient, and operationally ready.
- Take ownership of delivering high-impact business outcomes while managing scope, priorities, dependencies, and technical risks.
- Partner with Product Managers, architects, and business leaders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Communicate architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and technical recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborate with Security, Risk, Compliance, Infrastructure, and Platform Engineering teams to deliver secure and sustainable solutions.
- Influence engineering direction through technical leadership, mentorship, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Foster technical excellence, continuous learning, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Lead by example through ownership, accountability, and sound engineering judgment.
- Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across the organization.
- Promote trust, autonomy, and shared responsibility while aligning engineering decisions with customer and business goals.
- Code in multiple languages in support of software products and their development.
- Lead software system architecture projects.
- Mentor others in efficient software design.
- Lead project-level teams by assigning work, answering technical project questions, helping software engineers overcome challenges, and mentoring less experienced software engineers.
- Communicate with varying organizational levels and external parties, including reporting status, describing systems to audiences with different technical abilities, communicating task assignments, refining requirements, facilitating project planning, assisting with software project demonstrations, and reporting results.
- Provide input on software and technology decisions across an entire project and participate in higher-level meetings concerning software and information technology architecture.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
- Experience building artificial-intelligence-enabled applications and integrating large language models into production systems.
- Experience designing platforms that leverage agentic artificial intelligence workflows and developer productivity tools.
- Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, microservices, and event-driven systems.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
About the company
NextEra Energy owns Florida Power & Light, the regulated utility that supplies electricity to much of Florida, and NextEra Energy Resources, which builds and runs wind, solar, battery storage and nuclear plants across the United States. The company calls itself the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. FPL earns returns set by Florida regulators on the power plants and grid lines it builds, while Energy Resources sells power to utilities, technology companies and other large buyers under long-term contracts. NextEra Energy was formed in 1984 as the holding company for Florida Power & Light, which dates to 1925, and is based in Juno Beach, Florida.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Juno Beach, Florida
Founded
1984
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Scale is set to jump: the Dominion deal signed in May 2026 would form the largest regulated electric utility worldwide.
- Regulated growth is steady: FPL's capital earning approved returns grew 9.3% in the year to June 2026.
- A nuclear restart adds jobs: a $1.9 billion federal loan in September 2026 backs 450 Iowa plant roles.
What critics are saying
- Old scandals still cost money: NextEra agreed in June 2026 to pay $150 million to settle shareholder fraud claims.
- Affordability pressure is rising: Florida regulators approved FPL's $7 billion, four-year rate increase in November 2025, its largest ever.
- Expect reorganization: the May 2026 Dominion deal plans dual headquarters in Juno Beach and Richmond, Virginia.
What makes NextEra Energy unique
- Its project queue is huge: Energy Resources had about 35.1 gigawatts of signed projects awaiting construction in July 2026.
- Google buys its revived nuclear power: it agreed in October 2025 to take all Duane Arnold output for 25 years.
- It owns nuclear beyond Florida: it is sole owner of Wisconsin's Point Beach and largest owner of New Hampshire's Seabrook.
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12%The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced a $100 billion private investment to turn a former uranium enrichment site in Western Kentucky into the Paducah American Energy Hub. Led by energy secretary Chris Wright, the project will house an artificial intelligence and high-performance computing campus. Brookfield Asset Management will build the 1.8-gigawatt (GW) data centre campus. NextEra Energy will develop 2GW of gas-fired generation and 2.6GW of battery storage, with surplus power fed back to the regional grid. The phased buildout is targeted for 2032. It is expected to create about 8,000 construction jobs and 600 permanent jobs. The project arrives as investors grow wary of AI infrastructure spending, and Gallup polling shows about 71% of Americans oppose local data centres.
A $22 billion gas-fired power plant will supply a data center campus in South Texas, the result of a trade deal between the US and South Korea. Dubbed Project Star, the plant in Encinal, La Salle County, will be operated by NextEra Energy Resources and Related Companies, with San Antonio-based Lewis Energy Group as a partner. The plant will generate 6.47 gigawatts, mainly for the 5-gigawatt data center campus that Related Digital is building next door. Excess power will go to the Texas grid. NextEra expects about 8,400 construction jobs and 170 permanent jobs. The first phase should be operational in 2029, with full capacity by 2032. The project stems from a $350 billion 2025 US-South Korea deal. Korean companies will supply power generation equipment and help with engineering, construction, and operations.
Bloom Energy and NextEra Energy offer investors very different bets on clean power, according to a comparison of their FY 2025 results. Bloom, which makes on-site fuel cell systems for data centres, grew revenue 37.3% to nearly $2.0 billion. It posted a net loss of about $88.4 million and free cash flow of roughly $57.2 million. NextEra, which runs Florida Power & Light and a large renewables business, reported revenue of about $27.5 billion, up 11%. Net income was nearly $6.8 billion, and free cash flow was almost $3.2 billion. NextEra trades at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 19.1x against Bloom's 107.9x, and pays a 3.2% dividend. Bloom pays none.
Electricity demand over the next 20 years is expected to run six times higher than from 2005 to 2025, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and electric vehicles. Nuclear power is set to help meet it. Small reactor developers Oklo and NuScale Power are risky bets. In the second quarter of 2026, Oklo made $1.4 million in revenue against $74.4 million in operating expenses; NuScale made $75,000 against just over $64 million. Neither pays a dividend. Dividend payers offer other routes. Constellation Energy, which runs the largest US nuclear fleet, yields about 0.5% and has power deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon. NextEra Energy yields 3.2% and plans to buy Dominion Energy. Brookfield Renewable yields 5.3% and owns a stake in Westinghouse.
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