Principal Engineer

About Betterworks

Betterworks provides enterprise software to easily manage strategic plans, collaborative goals (OKRs), and ongoing performance conversations. Betterworks software helps high-performing companies get aligned, and execute more effectively.

Betterworks’ mission is to build solutions that help companies execute their strategic objectives through people engagement, performance enablement and decision analytics. We are working with some of the world’s leading brands like Walmart and Intuit to disrupt the business and talent management spaces with next generation Strategic Execution and Performance Management solutions.

What You’ll Be Doing

Betterworks is looking to hire a Principal Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for the entire product engineering team operating in India. In this position, you’ll work on leading the analytics, integrations, application platform, and product line of a complex enterprise SaaS product with your U.S. counterparts.

• Develop and enhance a complex enterprise performance management SAAS platform to drive critical decision-making in large enterprises.

• Architect, test, and implement solutions that elevate the Betterworks product to an enterprise level.

• Identify technology, process, and skill gaps and work with the U.S. and India heads of engineering to address them.

• Mentor a team of senior and staff engineers

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team including engineering managers, product managers, designers, QA and other stakeholders to convert business requirements into product and technology outcomes

• Introduce the team to new technologies and represent Betterworks’ technology via external events, open-source contributions, and blog posts.

• Participate in discussions with fully remote colleagues across multiple time zones (inclusive of Europe & US).

What’ll Help You Be Successful

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 12 to 15 years of experience in large-scale enterprise software development and architecture.

• A burning passion for technology, specifically technology in the service of business.

• A strong understanding of and respect for disciplines outside engineering - product, UX/UI design, sales, and marketing.

• Hands-on full-stack development experience with any high-level programming language. Python, Typescript, or Go are preferred.

• Expertise in AWS cloud, specifically EKS, RDS, MSK, and/or MWAA.

• Experience working with mid-sized teams of 50-100 engineers.

• Experience working with distributed computing and teams.

• Ability to define problems and resolve unknowns independently. Highly self-directed.

• Ability to communicate design and communicate large scale software architectures and guide teams into implementing them incrementally

• Highly disciplined and self-motivated.

What We All Do

• All employees share the responsibility of being aware of information security risks and adhering to information security policies and procedures.

• All employees are required to participate in information security awareness and training programs.

• All employees have a responsibility to handle data in accordance with data classification and handling guidelines. Employees should be aware of the sensitivity of the data they interact with and follow appropriate security measures.

• All employees have a responsibility of reporting information security incidents in accordance with information security policies and procedures.

Life at Betterworks

At Betterworks, we prioritize our people. In that spirit, we’ve put together a great benefits program to support our employees’ health and wellness that includes the following:

• Work closely with a cross functional team of highly motivated and intelligent folks with a unique range of startup and enterprise experience.

• Balanced Work / Life with unlimited vacation.

• A vibrant company culture with frequent team building events.

• Competitive salary with stock options.

• Company sponsored health and personal accident insurance benefits.

• A remote first work culture that allows you to work from anywhere in India and travel to meet as a team when possible.

• A one-time reimbursement for work from the home office set up.

• A monthly stipend for the internet.

Betterworks® aligns, develops and activates your workforce for business growth. Through our easy-to-use, integrated software solutions and expertise, we help organizations replace outdated annual review processes with powerful Continuous Performance Management® programs that help managers be better at the conversations, coaching and development necessary to inspire and motivate the entire workforce to meet today's goals and be ready for tomorrow's challenges. Our solution supports truly global workforces, and is used daily by workers from more than 100 countries with localization support in more than 20 languages.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to inclusive and diverse betterworks. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global betterworks Community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.