Principal Engineer, VP

Job Description

Join us as a Principal Engineer This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work in a collaborative, agile and forward thinking team environment With your software development background, you ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank As well as developing your technical talents, youll have the opportunity to build project and leadership skills which will open up a range of exciting career options Were offering this role at vice president level What youll do As a Principal Engineer, you ll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. You ll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, and will develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams. You ll also gain a distinguished leadership status in the software engineering community as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities. You ll also be: Designing and developing high performance and high availability applications, using proven frameworks and technologies Making sure that the bank s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality The skills youll need You ll need at least 12 years of experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience in delivering solutions for eFI Trading system . Along with development experience in large scale, high volume, multi-threaded and highly distributed systems , you ll bring an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance. You ll also need: Experience in backend development in ultra-low latency sensitive application Experience in Java, Multithreading, Concurrency packages and REST services Experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools U nderstanding of Java coding best practices, data structures, algorithms and design Patterns Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own