Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality of architecture and design of systems
• Create the optimum technical solution considering all the non-functional requirements
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
• Articulate precisely both technical and business requirements by engaging with architects, data scientists, businesses and product managers
• Mentor team members through technical discussions, design and ideation through white-boarding
• Help managers arrive at a growth plan for the team members
• Contribute strategically by working with tech leaders to maximize the productivity of teams by instilling an effective development environment
• Evaluate the technical needs and select appropriate software, hardware, scalability and security requirement and suggest integration methods
• Perform code and design reviews
• Improving the team efficiency and velocity by acting as a multiplier (optimize and remove obstacles)
• Compare and evaluate the implementation, if done by downstream developers, against the design, including code reviews.
• Identify areas of improvement and advocate them to be part of the roadmap

Qualifications

• 8-12 Years of relevant experience
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and large scale software architectures.
• Extensive experience building cloud-native restful web services and applications
• Expert level experience with programming languages such as PHP/Node.js/Python & Javascript
• Expertise in developing web applications using React or Angular framework (React preferred)
• Extensive experience with AWS cloud platform in developing API products.
• Strong experience with relational and non-relational data stores
• Expert level experience in building services with high performance, high availability at internet scale
• Solid understanding of software design and architectural patterns
• Experience in Leading Initiatives in project / software development roles
• Committed to quality, including security and performance
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to pick up new languages, tools and design patterns as needed