Principal Software Engineer – AWS

Responsibilities

• Partners with product management to craft product strategy, create product descriptions and ensure alignment to technology roadmaps.
• Be a thought leader: a senior point of expertise on software engineering issues, industry trends and developing technologies.
• Be a role model to others on the team.
• Coach and mentor team members.
• Takes ownership for creating technical product design and architecture.
• Creates and conducts presentations for small-to-medium size groups.
• Works closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for making Early Warning products better.
• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Develop, scope and shape a departmental-wide technical vision for the future.
• Design / Engineer product / application service solutions in alignment with technology strategy roadmap (example, cloud, containerization, CI/CD and automated testing) keeping futuristic business growth, ease of maintenance, operational readiness and self-service enabled.
• Collaborate and build relationships cross-functionally to influence and motivate others; serve as an internal catalyst for progressive, strategic and successful change management.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Fifteen or more years of experience in designing and developing complex software projects with at least eight or more years in Fin Tech domain.
• 1-2 years of experience implementing application solutions/ services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions.
• Effective communicator with exceptional public speaking skills.
• Comfortable presenting to all levels within the company.
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and Dev Ops practices
• Proven track record designing and building complex end-to-end systems (full stack developer)
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing using the one or more of the following technologies Java RESTful Web Services (Java, J2EE, JUnit, and Tomcat.)
• Experience in Microservices Architecture.
• Open Source Frameworks - Spring boot, Spring Core
• Messaging frameworks such as Kafka, Tibco EMS or JMS
• Oracle PL/SQL
• JavaScript and scripting frameworks (JQuery, AngularJS)
• Hands-on experience in test automation at various levels of testing (unit, component, integration and functional tests).
• Proven experience in OOA/OOD.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation including GIT, Chef,Maven, Jenkins etc
• Solid understanding of modern Cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or MS Azure.
• Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence)
• Background and drug screen.