Senior Principal Engineer

Position: Senior Principal Engineer

Factspan Overview

Factspan is a pure-play data and analytics services organization. We partner with Fortune 500 enterprises to build an analytics center of excellence, generating insights and solutions from raw data to solve business challenges, make strategic recommendations and, implement new processes that help them succeed. With offices in Seattle, Washington and, Bengaluru, India. We use a global delivery model to service our customers. Our customers include industry leaders from Retail, Financial Services, Hospitality, and technology sectors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain application code
• Contribute to the architectural design and direction of the technical infrastructure
• Develop and support application modules and features
• Participate in the design process to build efficient, scalable and maintainable architecture
• Research, evaluate and recommend alternative solutions
• Write unit/integration tests
• Collect and analyze metrics to drive implementation decisions
• Design, improve and document processes
• Review and collaborate with other engineers on their code
• Support your team through encouragement and by example
• Mentor and share knowledge within the team and across the department
• Deliver on personal and team deadlines and goals
  

Required Skills / Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or other related engineering fields
• Overall, 9-12 years of professional experience in application development
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience with AWS Services, React Native
• Strong understanding of both functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Strong understanding of SOLID design principles
• Desire to innovate and discover new technologies
• Comfortable working with multiple programming languages at the same time
• Development and troubleshooting of complex SQL
• Understanding of REST principles
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Excellent organizational skills, detail-oriented, and works well in a team environment or as an independent contributor
• Ability to work within a team environment
  Driven to continually learn and master new skills

Preferred Skills:

• Full stack development in languages such as Python, React, React Native, etc.
• Proficiency in AWS services: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, Kinesis, etc.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code(Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Experience with serverless architectures using AWS Lambda.
• Experience with NoSQL databases like DynamoDB or document-based databases
• Familiarity with security best practices in cloud environments (Auth0)
• Caching and in-memory database technologies
• Work with responsive design frameworks
• Experience with microservices, SOA, and/or distributed architectures
• Open-source software and dependency management
• Caching and in-memory database technologies
• Asynchronous/multi-threaded programming patterns
• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS Certified Solutions (edited)