Principal, Software Engineer

Position Summary

As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing new product features, supporting existing implementations and working with product, engineering, & business partners on new innovations.

As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing new product features, supporting existing implementations and working with product, engineering, & business partners on new innovations.

• Lead and participate in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, conducting unit testing, communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
• Actively participate and lead the technical requirements analysis, design review, contract closure with cross-functional teams across the globe.
• Participate in and identify architectural improvements, code review, best practices, delivering testable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop scalable, high-performance software solutions.
• Take ownership of full-stack development, including front-end and back-end components.
• Utilize your expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices to create robust and efficient applications.
• Mentor/coach other engineers in the team to facilitate their development and to provide technical leadership to them.
• Manage and maintain multiple production and non-production environments, ensuring that these environments are setup with the standard automated build and releases processes & deliver with quality, reliability.
• Build, leverage and analyze tools, application logs, and analytics data to determine improvements to the product and engineering services.
• Monitor the health of web application, work cross-functionally with partner teams such as Site Ops, Network, Storage, Systems, Monitoring & Application team.
• Set high standards for operational excellence and system observability.
• Encourage a culture of innovation, creativity, and high standards within the team, promoting the adoption of new technologies and best practices.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry best practices and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.

• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree with 12+ years of experience in Computer Science or related field.
• Proven track record of building successful software systems from inception to deployment.
• Proven track record of building solutions that solve highly complex business problems.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills, with the ability to make design trade-offs, balancing long-term "big picture" considerations with short-term implications of design decisions.
• Expertise in distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, CI/CD, and operational excellence best practices.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, including consensus building, conflict resolution, influence, and persuasion skills.
• Proven track record of mentoring and coaching engineers in technical problem-solving and career development.
• Curiosity and strong ability to learn new domains and technologies.
• Proficiency in building REST APIs and frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, and Hibernate.
• Experience in designing and developing enterprise solutions in Java/J2EE following multi-tier architecture.
• Basic understanding of JavaScript & any one Front end frameworks like React.js & Angular would be preferred.
• Experience with containerization technology like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience in any one of Testing framework is preferred.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology and leveraging SDLC tools to improve development, CI/CD, and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint).
• Experience with Azure Cloud Stack, GCP or other cloud stacks.
• Knowledge of open-source libraries, design patterns and micro-service architecture.
• Hands on knowledge with RDBMS like MySQL, Postgres.
• Hands on working experience in any messaging platform like Kafka is preferred.
• Excellent understanding of DS/Algorithms, and problem-solving skills.
• E…