Principal Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement end-to-end software solutions with a focus on

  scalability

  ,

  resilience

  , and

  performance

  .
• Provide

  technical leadership

  and strategic guidance across teams on design, development, and implementation.
• Integrate and leverage

  AI tools

  like Copilot and automation platforms to enhance product capabilities and engineering efficiency.
• Design and implement

  event-driven and queue-based systems

  using technologies like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Apply solid

  object-oriented principles

  and

  software design patterns

  to build clean, maintainable, and extensible systems.
• Champion best practices in

  Java

  ,

  Spring Boot

  , and

  microservices

  -based architecture.
• Drive excellence in

  ORM frameworks

  (e.g., Hibernate, JPA) and deep expertise in

  RDBMS systems

  , especially

  PostgreSQL

  .
• Guide build and deployment processes using

  Gradle

  , CI/CD pipelines, and automated quality checks.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment between technical strategy and product goals.
• Conduct architectural reviews, lead PoCs, and evaluate emerging technologies to meet evolving business needs.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering continuous improvement and skill development across the team.
• Contribute to technical decision-making, risk mitigation, and delivery assurance across multiple projects.

Key Job Functions/Requirements

• Hands-on experience with construction of complex engineering solutions and knowledge of software development methodologies
• Deep dive on large-scale SaaS products and be prepared to assist architecture with setting the vision, organizing and evolving the code-base for the entire product
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with product, infrastructure, DevOps, architecture, and engineering to guide an initiative's technical direction
• Along with Architecture, meet one on one with tech leads to provide guidance and ensure work is moving towards vision
• Assist in establishing and supporting coding standards
• Stay current with industry standard tools and technologies
• Engage in tribe-level ceremonies, including planning, grooming, product demonstrations, and retrospectives
• Perform risk analysis on work items defined for an initiative
• Assist in enabling and maintaining the continuous delivery pipeline and exhibit a DevOps mindset to enable autonomy of agile scrum teams
• With guidance from Architecture, perform feasibility studies and proofs of concepts on new solutions or techniques which may be employed
• Respond to trouble/support calls for production applications in order to make quick repair to prevent application outages
• Create and/or update documentation to support development efforts. Documentation may include detailed specifications, implementation guides, architecture diagrams and/or design documents
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize