Principal Software Engineer

About this Position

What you will do: 

• Drive the technical evolution of our best-in-class SaaS cloud platform taking the lead on initiatives including technical design, prototyping, building, and overseeing execution towards agreed goals 

• Collaborate with product managers, technical architects, engineering management, cloud engineers and other SMEs across the business to understand their requirements and suggest appropriate solutions to achieve the required features 

• Take a technical lead role in one or more agile teams providing hands-on technical expertise, ensuring technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, security, scalability, and performance 

  • Deliver solutions in a cloud-managed and serverless-first platform ecosystem 

  • Ensure consistent use of shared platform components

  • Design and develop reusable libraries and APIs 

  • Contribute to best practice for backend and frontend application development via the Well Architected Framework and its pillars

• Develop and promote a full spectrum of test suites and quality mindset (unit, contract, integration, etc)

• Supports and Mentor Software Engineers by providing guidance, advice and coaching on best practices related to quality, testing and scalability.

What we are looking for: 

• 12+ years of experience in architecting and developing highly scalable enterprise level services, platforms or products. 

• Extensive experience in building large scale distributed enterprise applications in geographically distributed teams

• Deep knowledge of backend stack with knowledge in most or all of the following: Java, Node.js, Python, Redis, Golang

• Knowledge of and experience choosing between SQL and NoSQL database technologies such as MySQL/PostgreSQL and MongoDB/DynamoDB 

• Knowledge of modern cloud architectures and technologies; experience with AWS is a plus 

• Excellent communication skills and experience documenting and delivering technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences 

• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment and ability to hustle is desirable 

• Hands-on experience in any of the following areas a plus: 

• Data modeling, data architecture, and data governance 

• Integrating CRM systems such as Salesforce with internal systems 

• Integrating 3rd party systems with internal and external workflows 

• Business workflow orchestration / choreography patterns 

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants who meet the inherent requirements for the position. Please note that background checks are required, and this may include criminal record checks.