Principal Software Engineer

Role and Responsibilities:

• Own the definition, design, development, delivery and quality for large feature sets, subsystems, or products.
• Deliver highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications.
• Help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Build architecture design, ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
• Lead code/design reviews to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional applications
• Identify bottlenecks in systems and optimize performance
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Set up and maintain environment configurations and monitor system health
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.
• Introduce and enhance tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
• Interface with customers and other business stakeholders to effectively deliver software products that meet their needs
• Establishing and maintaining standards for the engineering organization.

Job Requirement:

• Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience in software development, or equivalent or 12 years and an advanced degree.
• Bachelors degree in engineering, or another related field or equivalent work experience
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, distributed architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven work experience as a full stack developer
• Experience working with modern Javascript frameworks like React, Vue, Angular, HTML, and CSS
• Experience and familiarity with mobile application development.
• Proficient in API fundamentals and best practices, REST API architecture
• In-depth understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)
• Advanced experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure, using CI/CD tools following best practices
• Experience building applications in microservice architecture with API-first mindset.
• Collaborates effectively within the agile framework with a problem-solving attitude and willing to take a variety of approaches
• Excellent analytical and time management skills, with a proven ability to deliver cross-organization impact independently
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally, experience with planning and leading complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
• Excellent leadership, written and verbal communication skills

Preferred:

• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries
• Experience building and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services