Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect and Lead Development: Drive the architectural design, development, and delivery of complex, scalable, and resilient Java microservices deployed to cloud environments.
• Technical Strategy & Roadmapping: Collaborate with product managers, product designers, and other engineering leaders to define technical roadmaps, evaluate new technologies, and establish best practices that align with business objectives and anticipate future challenges.
• Mentorship & Coaching: Provide technical mentorship, guidance, and coaching to software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, clean code, and test-driven development (TDD).
• Quality Assurance Leadership: Champion and lead the implementation of advanced automated testing strategies, including unit, integration, functional, and performance tests, ensuring high-quality software delivery and minimizing regression defects.
• Operational Excellence: Oversee and optimize continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, improving automation, quality gates, and deployment processes based on past learnings and industry best practices.
• Production Incident Management: Act as a technical escalation point for critical production issues, leading root cause analysis, implementing preventative measures, and ensuring robust system reliability and performance.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management and Product Design to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions, advocating for technical feasibility and long-term maintainability.
• Innovation & Adoption: Proactively identify, evaluate, and champion the adoption of new technologies, tools, and methodologies that can significantly enhance product capabilities, developer productivity, and system performance.
• System Resilience & Scalability: Design and implement solutions that ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability for critical systems, understanding the non-functional requirements at an architectural level.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; an advanced degree is a plus.
• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with a significant portion in a lead or principal role, preferably within the mobility or a highly distributed systems environment.
• 5+ years of Proven Technical Leadership & Architectural Expertise: Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, define architectural patterns, and guide complex projects from conception to production.
• 5+ years of Deep Expertise in Cloud-Native Development: Extensive experience with RESTful Web Services, microservices architecture, and cloud-native application development using Spring Boot or Java EE Framework, deployed on platforms like PCF, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• 3+ years of Advanced Testing & Automation: Expert-level knowledge and practical experience with automated testing concepts, tools, and frameworks ( e.g., JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Cucumber, Pact).
• Expertise in GCP (CloudRun, APIGEE, PostgreSQL, Dataflow, Pub/Sub), and other Modern Data Stack technologies.