Principal Software Engineer - End User Apps

Principal Software Engineer – End User Apps

It has never been more critical to protect business data. From emails and their attachments, to instant messages exchanged over platforms like Microsoft Teams, this deluge of data must be made secure, discoverable, and compliant. That’s exactly where Mimecast Cloud Archive and Retention can help.

Mimecast provides businesses with world class protection for enterprise data powered by our pioneering Data Platform and customer applications leveraging the latest technologies and tooling in AWS.

Why Join Our Team?
“It’s an exciting time to join us as we embark on a journey to modernise how we manage petabytes of customer data in a hybrid cloud world” – Hiring Manager

What You’ll Do:
As a Principal Software Engineer in the End User Apps team, you will provide technical leadership across multiple areas and play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable systems. Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers. Lead design discussions and code reviews. Champion best practices for software development.
• Contribute to the design and architecture of our systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. Identify and evaluate new technologies.
• Collaborate with architects and dependent teams in solution design and troubleshooting.
• Develop high-quality, maintainable, and testable code across the full stack (front-end, back-end, and database).
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues. Identify and address performance bottlenecks.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver exceptional products.
• Continuous monitoring of services/APIs, provide recommendations for improved system performance and reliability.
• Work closely with product managers, UX/UI designers to translate wireframes and mock-ups into high-quality, reusable user-interfaces while adhering to design specifications and coding standards.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in software development. Contribute to innovation efforts within the team.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering their growth and development.
• Ensure code quality through code reviews, and adherence to coding standards.
• Participate in agile development methodologies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

What You’ll Bring:

• Demonstratable ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment, mentoring junior team members and contributing to a positive team culture.
• Strong proficiency in API development using Java, front-end technologies like Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and related technologies.
• Strong experience in working with Angular concepts like modules, components, templates, directives, services, pipes and RxJs.
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and optimizing backend systems for data processing at scale.
• Comprehensive knowledge and hands-on experience with foundational AWS services, such as; ALB, ECS, S3, AWS ElastiCache, IAM, CloudWatch.
• Demonstrated expertise in implementing and maintaining Kafka-based event-driven services.
• Proven experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, and an understanding of database design, optimization, and management.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins and establishing robust CI/CD pipelines.

What We Bring:
Join our End User Apps team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.

Mimecast offers formal and on the job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly - working in cross functional teams to build your knowledge!

Our Hybrid Model: We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week, because working together in person:

• Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance and learning.
• Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams.
• Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm.
• Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!

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DEI Statement

Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.

We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.

Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.