Principal Software Engineer
About the job
• The Principal Software Engineer will guide technical vision for multiple projects
• Contribute to key platform components (such as Authentication, User Management, Eventing Backbone)
• Code review of projects, coding and/or configuring solutions for high complexity Agile stories across multiple domains or platform areas
• Creation of conceptual design/architecture diagrams
• Get multiple engineers aligned on a vision and executing
• Regular interactions with technical leads to ensure proper strategy/execution
• Inform technical leaders of any impediments or technical limitations encountered
• Participate in hiring practices/interviews
• Acts as the technical lead in project teams as the primary individual responsible for code and technical solution quality
• Designs, codes, and delivers solutions to production for high-complexity Agile stories
• Creates a conceptual design/architecture for large scale software solutions in collaboration with architects
• Provides guidance and mentoring to software engineers
• Debugs and resolves high complexity software bugs or issues, working independently
• Writes automated unit and integration-level tests under own direction
• Follows development standards and effectively demonstrates technical solutions to other developers in code reviews
• Perform other related duties and activities as required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or higher education level, or its foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Information Sciences, and/or related field
- Total Work Experience: 7+ years (software development), 5+ years of strategic leadership experience
- Expert of scalable, resilient, modern, cloud-native microservice development with Java, .NET, Python, or Typescript
- Expert in distributed software patterns, such as DDD, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architecture
- Expert in Object-oriented design, Java or .NET development
- Expert with CI/CD to deliver software enhancements to customers with full automation
- Experience in Cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including Serverless
- Experience with Terraform/Ansible or other IaC platforms
- Experience with CQRS, event-driven architecture, and Kafka
- Experience building monitoring, alerting, and observability for maintaining high customer SLAs for SaaS delivered products
- Experience decomposing monolithic applications using Domain-Driven Design
- Excels in the ability to lead, teach, and guide modern software-development practices across Product Development, operating independently with guidance.
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Hard Skills
- Java
- C#
- Python
- Typescript
- microservices
- cloud-native development
- CI/CD
- Object-oriented design
- Terraform
- Ansible
Soft Skills
- leadership
- mentoring
- communication
- collaboration
- problem-solving
- strategic thinking
- guidance
- independence
- teaching
- alignment

