We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of our enterprise Microservices and Integration Platforms. This role will serve as a technical leader responsible for establishing architecture standards, guiding engineering teams, and delivering scalable, resilient, and secure platform capabilities that power our digital and enterprise ecosystem.
The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, API management, event-driven design, and enterprise integrations with a passion for mentoring engineers and driving engineering excellence. This position will play a key role in enabling business agility, accelerating product delivery, and modernizing enterprise systems through reusable platform capabilities.
Key ResponsibilitiesArchitecture & Technical Leadership- Define and drive the strategic roadmap for microservices, APIs, integration platforms, and event-driven architectures.
- Lead architecture reviews and establish enterprise-wide engineering standards, patterns, and best practices.
- Design highly scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems supporting high transaction volumes and business-critical workloads.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Product Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with business and technology strategies.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform improvements that enhance scalability, performance, and developer experience.
- Architect and evolve reusable platform services that accelerate application development and deployment.
- Drive standardization of service development frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security controls, and deployment patterns.
- Establish self-service capabilities for engineering teams to simplify onboarding and service lifecycle management.
- Champion platform reliability, resiliency, availability, and performance objectives.
- Lead the design and development of cloud-native microservices using domain-driven design and modern architectural patterns.
- Establish standards for service decomposition, API design, service communication, fault tolerance, and resiliency.
- Guide teams on implementation of scalable synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns.
- Drive modernization of monolithic applications into loosely coupled microservices architectures.
- Design and govern enterprise integration strategies across internal and external systems.
- Lead implementation of API-first architectures and event-driven solutions leveraging messaging and streaming technologies.
- Build scalable integration patterns using APIs, event brokers, service meshes, and cloud integration services.
- Ensure reliable, secure, and observable data exchange across business domains.
- Mentor senior engineers and architects across multiple product teams.
- Establish coding standards, architecture governance, design reviews, and operational best practices.
- Promote DevSecOps principles and site reliability engineering practices.
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution for complex production issues.
- Drive adoption of automation, testing, observability, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years designing and delivering distributed systems at scale.
- 3+ years in a Principal Engineer, Lead Architect, or equivalent technical leadership role.
- Deep expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems design.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Hands-on experience developing solutions using Java, Kotlin, C#, Node.js, or similar modern programming languages.
- Expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, API gateways, and API lifecycle management.
- Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Event Hub, AWS EventBridge, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and implementing DevOps practices.
- Knowledge of security best practices, authentication, authorization, and Zero Trust principles.
- Experience with observability platforms including OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, or similar tools.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale modernization initiatives.
- Expertise in domain-driven design (DDD), CQRS, event sourcing, and service mesh technologies.
- Experience with Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions
- Experience operating high-volume eCommerce, retail, digital commerce, or omnichannel platforms.
- Knowledge of SRE practices, reliability engineering, and platform operations.
- Cloud certifications or architecture certifications preferred.
Full Time Benefits Summary:
Enjoy discounts on retail merchandise, our restaurants, world-class resorts and conservation attractions!
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Account
- Voluntary benefits
- 401k Retirement Savings
- Paid holidays
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick time
- Bass Pro Cares Fund
- And more!
Bass Pro Shops is an equal opportunity employer. Hiring decisions are administered without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Qualified individuals with known disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit your nearest location or contact us at [email protected].
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- At least 5 years designing and delivering distributed systems at scale
- 3+ years in a Principal Engineer, Lead Architect, or equivalent technical leadership role
- Deep expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems design
- Strong experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or similar cloud platforms
- Hands-on experience with Java, Kotlin, C#, Node.js, or similar modern programming languages
- Expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, API gateways, and API lifecycle management
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging or streaming technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Event Hubs, or AWS EventBridge
- Strong understanding of Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and implementing DevOps practices
- Knowledge of security best practices, authentication, authorization, and Zero Trust principles
- Experience with observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic, or Grafana
- Experience leading enterprise-scale modernization initiatives
- Expertise in domain-driven design, CQRS, event sourcing, and service mesh technologies
- Experience with Integration Platform as a Service solutions
- Experience operating high-volume eCommerce, retail, digital commerce, or omnichannel platforms
- Knowledge of SRE practices, reliability engineering, and platform operations
- Cloud or architecture certifications
Bass Pro Shops Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Bass Pro Shops and has not been reviewed or approved by Bass Pro Shops.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with HSA/FSA options and an advertised employer HSA credit for eligible plans. Wellness programs plus life and disability insurance provide additional coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, sick time, and holiday pay are available for eligible team members. Hourly employees have seen enhancements to early‑tenure paid time off in recent updates.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Substantial merchandise discounts and savings at company restaurants, resorts, and attractions are a standout perk. A hardship fund offers one‑time grants for qualified needs.
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What We Do
Bass Pro Shops is North America’s premier outdoor and conservation company. Founded in 1972 when Johnny Morris began selling tackle out of his father’s liquor store in Springfield, Missouri, today we provide customers with premier destination retail in more than 150 locations across North America. In 2017 Bass Pro Shops acquired Cabela’s to create a “best-of-the-best” experience with superior products, dynamic locations and outstanding customer service. Guided by the visionary leadership of our founder and CEO Johnny Morris, Bass Pro Shops is making a significant impact in on the future of conservation and the communities we serve. More than 40 years after Johnny began helping people connect with nature through a tiny bait shop, our conservation mission is to inspire people to enjoy, love and conserve the great outdoors. Beyond retail, Bass Pro Shops also operates White River Marine Group, the world’s largest manufacturer of boats, plus award-winning resorts and nature destinations including Big Cedar Lodge, America’s Premier Wilderness Resort. Our passion for connecting people to nature extends to our CLUB program where customers earn points toward free gear and experiences, and a series of not-for-profit conservation attractions.
