Principal Software Engineer

What makes us Qlik?

A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for 13 years in a row, Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster.

We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources, and our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities.

The Principal Software Developer Role

Join Qlik's major team at the forefront of developing industry-leading Analytics and Data Integration SaaS products as a Principal Software Developer.

Your foundational contributions will empower global R&D teams to deliver highly scalable, efficient, observable, and resilient micro-services, supporting mission-critical Data and Analytics use cases for thousands of high-profile customers worldwide. As part of our technological evolution, your work will shape the growth and success of our cloud ecosystem.

What makes this role interesting?

• Application & API integration products: Take part to the development of our main real-time integration products, providing reliability, efficiency and growth to our thousands of high-profile customers worldwide.
• Global Impact: Your role will be at the heart of the team as a technical referral but as well outside to represent the team and highlight our technical projects.
• Collaborative Environment: Work closely with product and engineering teams to define requirements, features, and functionalities, fostering a collaborative environment that encourages feedback and continuous improvement.

Here’s how you’ll be making an impact:

• Integration Development: Design, develop, and maintain application and API integration products using mainly Java across various platforms (microservice, GWT, Eclipse RCP).
• Tooling Development: Be the main actor to improve and maintain our Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) tools using Jenkins and Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Collaborative Development: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define requirements and features, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
• Code Quality and Documentation: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in required languages, ensure well-documented designs, and implement automated tests for reliability and performance.
• Continuous Improvement: Gather feedback from internal and external developers to improve our tools continually, staying updated with new technologies and industry best practices.
• Community Engagement: Actively engaged in sharing our practices, organizing events, webinars, and forums to promote engagement and collaboration.

We’re looking for a teammate with:

• Proficiency in Java, especially in a cloud/microservice environment. Familiarity with Google Web Toolkit and/or Eclipse RCP is a plus.
• Proficiency with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes, Jenkins (shared libs), Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud SaaS environments.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs (with various contract formats RAML, OAS ...), HTTP protocol, and web services.
• Experience with Git or other version control systems, excellent problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, especially for technical documentation.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team environment.

• Preferred: Knowledge of software development best practices, design patterns, and building high availability systems.

The location for this role is:

France, Nantes (Hybrid position)

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More about Qlik and who we are:

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What else do we offer?

• Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs
• Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness
• Flexible, diverse, and international work environment

Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra “change the world” day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage participation in our Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs

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