Principal Software Engineer
Concord USA · St. Paul, MN
$60–$75/hrfrom the description
Jun 28, 2026
St. Paul, MN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior software engineering role focused on building analytical and optimization platforms for a large renewable energy operation, handling tens of billions of data points daily. The work spans backend services, data pipelines, and user interfaces on GCP, with responsibilities including architecture ownership, CI/CD pipeline development, agentic AI integration, and direct engagement with business stakeholders. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable leading technical decisions across the full stack.
Senior level · 9+ years · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 220 people in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 160–340
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $130,920 (middle half $103,040–$161,610). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
Two work locations are listed — St. Paul, MN and Juno Beach, FL — with no indication of which is primary. The CBSA is set to Minneapolis-St. Paul as it appears first; the Juno Beach, FL location falls within the Port St. Lucie, FL CBSA (38940).
Compensation is quoted as two separate ranges: $60–$75/hr on a W2 basis and $65–$80/hr on a C2C (corp-to-corp) basis. The W2 range is captured in the compensation fields as it is the lower/more common basis; the C2C premium should be noted separately.
BigQuery, Dataflow, and Dataproc are listed together as GCP data-intensive workload tools ('particularly around… BigQuery, Dataflow, or Dataproc'). They are treated as interchangeable satisfiers of the same GCP data requirement rather than three separate hard gates.
AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor, or similar) appear in the main requirements section with firm language ('track record of using'), making this a hard gate on the capability; specific tools are interchangeable.
Energy/utilities industry experience is explicitly called out as 'helpful but not required' — treated as preferred.
The role spans backend services, data pipelines, and user interfaces, making it a genuine full-stack software engineering role with a strong data/architecture lean; 15-1243 (Database Architects) is noted as a runner-up given the emphasis on data-intensive platform architecture at scale.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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