Principal Software Engineer

Job summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer with strong AI/ML and Generative AI expertise to lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable, cloud-native platforms and intelligent applications.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product managers, UX designers and architects to understand project requirements and technical specifications.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications, ensuring they meet high-quality standards and performance benchmarks.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, in accordance with coding standards and best practices.
• Conduct code reviews to increase code quality, consistency, and alignment with the product design and architecture.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and debug product defects and provide timely solutions to customer issues.
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve software development processes and tools.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help drive technical innovation within the team.

What you will have

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of professional experience in a software development role.
• Proficiency in Java and Python and a strong grasp of software development principles.
• Expertise in application frameworks (e.g.: Spring/ Springboot/JPA).
• Hands on Experience in GenAI product development, with a focus on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) techniques and exposure building and integrating AI agents.
• Hands-on experience in LLMs (GPT-4, LLaMA, etc.)
• Proficiency in TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, OpenAI APIs, and NLP libraries.
• Experience developing and deploying AI applications including chatbots, virtual assistants and other NLP powered tools.
• Develop, fine-tune and deploy LLM-based solutions using Azure cognitive services and tools.
• Experience with MLOps, CI/CD pipelines for AI models, and model monitoring.
• Expertise developing, consuming, and evolving RESTful web services.
• Integrations/Plugin Development experience with CI/CD tools(Github, Azure Devops, Jenkins, Gitlab,etc).
• Experience in using Blackduck, SonarQube, FOSSA or similar tools.
• Knowledge of both relational (MySQL, MariaDB) and NoSQL/non-relational databases.
• Proficiency in containerization with Docker and expertise in container orchestration utilizing Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS Preferred)
• Experience with software development methodologies, such as Agile.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and address complex technical issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Experience building cloud native applications, services-based architecture, DevOps principles and continuous deployment.
• Application of secure coding practices and methodologies.
• A passion for unit testing and consistently delivering high-quality code.

Benefits

• Generous time off policies.
• Top shelf benefits.
• Education, wellness and lifestyle support.

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