Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities:
Development: Design clean, maintainable, and efficient code for various software applications and systems.Technical Strategy: Drive the technical strategy and vision for major projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices. Communicate complex concepts, anticipate potential objections, and influence others to adopt a point of view.Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deliver high-impact software projects on time and within budget. Coordinate activities and tasks of other team members, working independently and needing guidance only in the most complex situations.Architectural Excellence: Architect, design, and develop complex software systems and applications, ensuring high standards of performance, scalability, and reliability. Collaborate with architects on mid-level and high-level design.Complexity: Solve complex issues with innovative solutions, setting precedents as needed. Navigate information, alternatives, and relationships to achieve results. Communicate complex concepts, anticipate objections, and influence adoption of viewpoints.Impact: Impact the achievement of area/group objectives. Develop team policies, procedures, and techniques. Drive prioritization of technical debt, articulating the expected impact and outcomes.Service Health and Quality: Ensure the health and quality of services and incidents, proactively identifying and addressing issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and implement measures to prevent future recurrences.Engineering Excellence Practices: Advocate for and implement best quality practices, hold a high bar for engineering excellence, and guide the team in maintaining service quality through the testing pyramid.Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using tools (e.g., JUnit, Selenium) and design patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide.Code Review: Conduct comprehensive code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to best practices.Mentorship: Provide technical mentorship and guidance, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement. Mentor junior engineers on taking ownership of the full lifecycle of services and features.Documentation: Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for software applications and systems.Innovation: Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for their adoption where appropriate to drive innovation and productivity enhancement within the team (e.g., CoPilot).QualificationsBachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related fieldAt least 7-10 years of industry experienceExperience in ASP .Net design and programming with Visual Studio ProfessionalExperience with C# and .Net Framework design and programmingExperience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Knockout JS and or AngularExperience with Microsoft SQL ServerAbility to write intermediate SQL QueriesProficiency with Git as a version control systemDomain knowledge of HCM is an additional advantageExcellent oral (spoken English) and written communication skillsAbility to prioritize tasks and handle parallel executionsExperience in Software Development TestingExperience with functional automated test toolsExperience in testing browser and servers side performance including profiling toolsDemonstrated ability to work in a cross geographical teamDemonstrated ability to communicate and define best practices for performance &functional testing