Software Engineer, Principal

There is a significant UI/UX transformation planned for SunSystems and this role will be a key player in driving future standards, technology selection and approach, working with our architect team to modernise the product experience and take it forward. At this level, it’s also expected the developer can provide mentorship to less experienced developers, and act in a technical leadership capacity (not line management) across our agile (predominantly scrum) software teams, particularly representing good front-end practise and guiding engineers who do not specialise in front-end work.

A Day in The Life Typically Includes:

• Developing new software features and enhancing existing functionality, working within our agile scrum teams, alongside product owner / business analyst, developers, QA, scrummaster.
• Our teams are based across the UK, Shanghai China, and India, achieving a level of follow-the-sun development, and you may be working in teams with individuals from these localities.
• Building attractive and frictionless front-end experiences on top of our REST APIs
• Investigating customer-reported software issues, security vulnerabilities and improvements to resolve in a timely and effective manner.
• Mentoring and supporting less experienced developers, both directly with code review and indirectly with advice and guidance.
• Supporting product owner in understanding complexity of work, identifying constraints and dependencies and in estimating delivery timescales.
• Working with architects to design features and functionality and to help to articulate the future direction of front-end software development, design principles and architecture for use across SunSystems.

What You Will Need:

Basic Qualifications

• Proficient in Front-end software development (currently a mix of GWT, Angular, JQuery, pure Javascript), with solid understanding of good principles of UX and UI development.
• Strong exposure to general HTML5 APIs, Web Components, Shadow DOM
• Experience working with and developing design systems and front-end component libraries, making use of back end RESTful APIs.
• Solid understanding of modern architectural and development concepts like microservices, API-driven development, OOAD, UML/Design Pattern exposure.
• Experience working in an Agile (pref. Scrum) and iterative development approach.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Enthusiasm and ability to collaborate well with others, including remote teams
• Professional pride, drive and curiosity, a diligent self-starter that keeps up to date with best practise and keeps your skillset sharp.
• Strong problem resolution skills

What Will Put You Ahead?

• Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience modernising UX and UI for Enterprise, SaaS and/or web platform software development lifecycle a big plus
• Experience with some of our complementary range of technologies, e.g. Mustache Templates, SASS, Java, C#, XHR, Tomcat, Service based architectures with HTTP (SOAP / REST APIs) integrations, AWS, Microsoft SQL Server or similar RDBMS, Jenkins, Git
• Strong ability to think through large abstract systems and processes, comfortable problem-solving and working with data.
• Customer focused mindset, with the ability to understand end user requirements and consider how users work with software that you develop to develop frictionless experiences.
• Understanding of Accounting/Reporting/Financial applications, or experience with or exposure to Infor SunSystems and Query and Analysis, beneficial but not required.