Principal Engineer - Transport

• Taking ownership of the design and architecture of the systems and products across the group
• Become the go-to person for decision-making and design choices across the group
• Bringing in long-term strategic thinking and influence across the group
• Working with stakeholders to anticipate and address risks such as technical & architectural debt, uptime initiatives, app crash reviews, etc
• Defining, executing, and delivering with the team, long-term strategic bets for the next evolution of the group
• Bringing in the mindset of operational excellence across the group and ensuring an overall TCO mindset in the initiatives undertakenNegotiating scope, speed & quality trade-offs with Product Managers and other engineers
• Focus on software craftsmanship and help the team learn from you by actively mentoring and coaching engineers

What You Will Need

• At least 8 years of relevant experience. Hands-on in either Golang or Java
• Ability to go into depth and breadth across tech stack used in the product
• Experience of working on large scale event driven micro services architecture and can architect solutions based on this pattern
• Familiarity with basic programming principles such as SOLID and TDD
• Hands-on experience to troubleshoot issues across network, OS file systems, containers, CI/CD pipelines, etc
• Belief in left-shift approach when it comes to testing and holds him/her-self accountable on setting the right example for the team
• Ability to understand/discuss design and performance trade offs in complex systems
• Strong people leadership skills including growing and guiding your team members
• Passion for your teams mission and the self-starting personality to make things happen