Principal Engineer

Responsibilities

• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems by serving as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional teams.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry in design decisions and have zeal and drive to take end-to-end ownership.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise-ready, cost-effective back-end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel while re-architecting the existing problems.
• Lead design and development of product, working closely with the business team.
• Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers, and review code.
• Should have experience working with Product Management to create product roadmaps, functional specifications, and design specifications of features based on customer/product requirements.
• Research, experiment, and recommend new technologies that can help increase productivity/reduce technical risk or debt.
  

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience with Enterprise Java (JDK 8 and above), Spring (Boot, MVC, AOP, DI), ORM Frameworks.
• 4+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (LLD, HLD, OO design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Strong experience in data structures and algorithms, and their space and time complexities.
• Strong working experience in an agile environment, and technically leading the team of developers and reviewing code.
• Experience in high-traffic, highly scalable microservices, distributed system designs.
• Experience working with microservices-based architecture.
• Hands-on experience working with Databases like SQL and NoSQL
• Hands-on experience working with caches like Ehcache, Redis, etc.
• Solid understanding of multithreading, MVC, and strong OO skills with demonstrated experience in developing complex and reusable APIs and understanding of the full software development life cycle.