Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal Software Engineer within our Field Mobile Platform team, you will be part of a cross-functional group responsible for building, testing, and running platforms that empower field engineers to deliver efficient, compliant, and customer-centric service. Our field workforce relies on a suite of mobile applications to manage daily workflows across various domains. We are now consolidating and extending our platform to cover new areas including Supply Chain Management, Knowledge Management, Scheduling & Workflow Optimization, Quoting & Lead Generation, and Smart Metering. Key Responsibilities: - Define and evolve the Field Mobile Platform architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, and seamless integration with core systems (CRM, ERP, Supply Chain, IoT). - Drive the rationalization of existing field apps into a unified platform, reducing technical debt and cost of ownership. - Lead cross-domain design decisions to ensure consistent patterns, data models, and integration standards. - Partner with business and product leaders to identify and deliver new digital capabilities that enhance efficiency, compliance, and customer experience. - Establish engineering best practices in mobile development, CI/CD, testing, and telemetry across multiple delivery teams. - Champion performance, offline capability, and security to ensure field reliability and regulatory compliance. - Participate in innovation projects and hackathons to drive technical strategy and influence the wider platform ecosystem. - Drive specialist areas such as Security, SRE, and Quality if you have a passion for these domains. Qualifications Required: - Proven experience shaping and delivering technology strategy. - Hands-on engineering expertise in at least one programming language (we hire for engineering skill, not specific languages). - Strong background in iOS & Android mobile app development and technical leadership. - Deep knowledge of engineering best practices and continuous delivery. - Experience collaborating to improve DevOps capability and contributing to communities of practice. - Proactive approach to performance, scalability, and security challenges. In this role, you will effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet technical and business goals. You will advocate for continuous improvement and a culture of learning and innovation. Excellent communication skills are essential for conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will be motivated to own platforms and services from inception through continuous improvement and enjoy coaching and mentoring team members in technical and functional areas.,