Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer

Principal

Are you ready to take up the challenges up!!

1. Technical Vision & Architecture

• Define & Evangelize Architecture

• Build and communicate high-level system designs, roadmaps, and technology stacks.

• Set Standards & Best Practices

• Own coding guidelines, design patterns, security practices, and performance benchmarks.

• Evaluate New Technologies

• Research emerging tools, frameworks, or platforms and decide whether (and when) to adopt them.

2. Complex Problem Solving

• Tackle “Hard” Engineering Challenges

• Lead the design of solutions for the most intricate scalability, reliability, or security issues.

• Proofs of Concept & Prototypes

• Rapidly prototype new ideas to de-risk large initiatives.

3. Cross-Team Collaboration

• Align Multiple Teams

• Work across product, UX, QA, operations, and other engineering teams to ensure consistency and integration.

• Technical Liaison with Stakeholders

• Translate technical trade-offs and timelines into business terms for product managers, executives, and sometimes customers.

4. Mentorship & Talent Development

• Coach Senior Engineers

• Provide one-on-one career guidance, help them level up architecturally, and sharpen their leadership skills.

• Code Reviews & Design Reviews

• Offer thorough feedback to raise code quality and maintainability across the org.

5. Influence & Leadership Without Authority

• Drive Technical Initiatives

• Champion major refactors, platform migrations, or “big bets” (e.g., microservices adoption, moving to serverless).

• Foster Engineering Culture

• Advocate for healthy practices—CI/CD, observability, incident retrospectives, documentation.

6. Operational Excellence

• Reliability & Incident Response

• Own or co-own on-call rotations, lead post-mortems, and ensure SLIs/SLOs are met.

• Tooling & Automation

• Identify gaps in developer workflows and build or commission internal tools to increase productivity.

7. Strategic Roadmapping

• Long-Term Planning

• Help shape the technical aspects of the product roadmap several quarters (or years) out.

• Budget & Resource Planning

• Provide input on headcount needs, infrastructure costs, and licensing requirements.

When to Add a Principal Engineer?

• Projects are

  critically complex

  or

  highly cross-cutting

  , requiring deep expertise.
• You need someone to

  raise the bar

  on architecture, tooling, and processes.
• You want to scale your engineering organization without layering on additional management.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience with Asp.Net MVC with Entity Framework.
• Experience of 15+ years
• At least 5 years of experience with Asp.Net Core.

• Ready to work as per the US shift timings

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP), design patterns.
• Experience with SQL Server including SP, writing complex queries and DB optimization.
• Familiarity with Javascript, JQuery, and Typescript
• Experience working in front-end technology

  (AngularJS)

• Experience with common front-end development HTML, CSS etc.
• Expertise with code testing best practices like unit testing
• Good hands-on experience of

  AWS

  .
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN