Principal Software Engineer

Job Description:

The Principal Engineer is a key leadership role within the engineering team, responsible for overseeing and guiding complex technical projects, driving innovation, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software products.

This role involves a combination of hands-on technical work, strategic planning, and team mentorship.

If you have drive to lead and mentor engineering teams, ability to set technical direction for greenfield SaaS products and excellent communication skills to work with cross-functional teams, including product management and other stakeholders, this position is for you!

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES


* (MUST HAVE) 10+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments


* (MUST HAVE) Strong OOD and SOA principles, with ability to implement them in a language of choice (Java preferable)


* (MUST HAVE) Strong experience leading architecture, design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services.


* (MUST HAVE) Experience working with AWS and/or Azure SaaS infrastructure and CI/CD DevOps technologies, and extensive debugging experience.


* (MUST HAVE) An understanding of unit testing, test driven development, functional testing, and performance testing.


* Experience building front end with React is a big plus.


* Knowledge of database systems (SQL, NoSQL) and data architecture.


* Experience working and integrating with Event Bus like Pulsar is a big plus.


* Experience working and integrating with cloud based big data solutions like Snowflake is a big plus.


* Working experience with software security-enhancing tools and best practices.


* Knowledge of at least one shell scripting language.


* Understanding of industry-leading technology/solutions in big data and machine learning.


* Ability to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction, from business strategy to product strategy to high-level technical design to detailed technical design to implementation.


* Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment.


* Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships.


* Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, presentation and facilitation skills.


* Must be results oriented and customer focused with an ability to make successful trade-offs that balance short- and long-term product goals.


* High-energy, self-starter with a positive mindset and with a "can do" attitude.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES


* Prepare technical design specifications based on functional requirements and analysis documents.

Provide written knowledge transfer material.


* Review functional requirements, analysis, and design documents and provide feedback.


* Implement, test, maintain and support software, based on technical design specifications.


* Improve system quality by iden...