Principal Engineer

Role Overview: You will be joining Freecharge, a subsidiary of Axis Bank Limited, as a Principal Engineer (Backend-Java) in Gurugram. As a creative company, Freecharge focuses on building magical products through technology to revolutionize Financial Products. In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring the quality of architecture and design of systems by serving as a technical lead on demanding, cross-functional teams. Key Responsibilities: - Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions - Leverage knowledge of internal and industry in design decisions and take end to end ownership - Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience - Build performant, scalable, secure, enterprise-ready, cost-effective back end architectures to support millions of users in parallel - Lead design and development of products working closely with the business team - Independently own software components, co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers, and review codes - Collaborate with Product Management to create product roadmaps, functional specifications, and design specifications of features based on customer/product requirements - Research, experiment, and recommend new technologies to increase productivity and reduce technical risk or debt Qualifications Required: - Bachelors/Masters in Software Engineering - 7+ years of software development experience with Enterprise Java (JDK 8 and above), Spring (Boot, MVC, AOP, DI), ORM Frameworks - 4+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design of new and current systems - Strong experience in data structures & algorithms, and their space & time complexities - Strong working experience in an agile environment, technically leading the team of developers, and reviewing codes - Experience in high traffic, highly scalable, microservices, distributed system designs - Hands-on experience working with Databases like SQL & NoSQL, and caches like Ehcache, Redis, etc. - Solid understanding of multithreading, MVC, and strong OO skills with demonstrated experience in developing complex and reusable APIs Please share your updated resume along with the following details if you believe you are the right fit for this role: - Current Salary - Expected Salary - Offer in Hand - Expected Salary - Notice Period Thank you for considering this opportunity at Freecharge!,