Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer (Dot Net)

Who we are.

Brightly, a Siemens company, is the global leader in intelligent asset management solutions. Brightly enables organizations to transform the performance of their assets with a sophisticated cloud-based platform that leverages more than 20 years of data to deliver predictive insights that help users through the key phases of the entire asset lifecycle. More than 12,000 clients of every size worldwide depend on Brightly’s complete suite of intuitive software - including CMMS, EAM, Strategic Asset Management, IoT Remote Monitoring, Sustainability and Community Engagement. Paired with award-winning training, support and consulting services, Brightly helps light the way to a bright future with smarter assets and sustainable.

About the job

Brightly Software continues to grow and needs amazing engineers. This is an excellent fit for talented engineers who thrive in a fast-paced environment. New hires will work alongside our top-notch engineers and product team to design, implement, deliver, and support our highly ambitious products and integrations. We care deeply about your passion and dedication to the craft of software.

What you’ll be doing

* Drive and own end-to-end delivery of innovative and performant features into our next-generation software applications. Inspire a team of engineers to apply deep knowledge of computer science & programming principles into innovative solutions.
* Coordinate and direct project execution, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.
* Inspire and guide engineers to design, implement, document libraries and frameworks that allow us to effectively scale development on our applications across multiple projects as common services or components, leveraged by multiple products, calibrating scope, time, cost & quality constraints.
* Build and track quality into agile product lifecycle encompassing requirements, design, code, testing, delivery, support. Socialize a culture of quality across business verticals and departments.
* Guide and mentor engineers on clear maintainable full-stack code, working in a professional software engineering environment (source control, shortened release cycles, continuous integration, and deployment, etc.).
* As a member of an agile team, write new feature code or new test automation frameworks based upon business needs.
* Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a team of professional engineers to ensure that engineering objectives are completed on-time, within budget, and as per the set goals. Create career development programs for the team and develop short-term plans to ensure skills and performance of employees meet current and future needs.
* Participate cross-functionally in portfolio & product planning sessions as an engineering visionary with a focus on the horizon. Own assigned areas/services/components of products as the technical guru.
* Support our products, enable teams to identify and fix root causes of production incidents, own the long-term closure of major incidents.
* Own product quality and work to quickly address production defects.
* Embed a DevOps mentality within the team.
* Serve as a technical lead for teams as needed or special purpose projects per business priority.
* Instill a culture of constant learning and staying relevant with trends in technology across engineers and management.
* Influence architects, senior engineering, and product management to measure, track and iterate continuous improvement processes across engineering discipline, impacting success across the agile delivery organization globally.
* Present operational status to management from an engineering operations level and advise back to engineers on calibration at team level practices. Welcome, change and complexity. Learn quickly and adapt fast.
* Be a change leader!


What you need

* Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline; or equivalent additional work experience
* Minimum 8 years of experience
* Design patterns and practices, data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, databases, SQL, web programming, SOLID principles, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.)
* Prior experience in agile implemented at scale across multiple teams globally
* 5+ years’ web development, JS frameworks, UI/UX technologies
* 7+ years’ REST services, SOA, micro-services
* Prior development experience with any cloud technology stacks like AWS, Azure, Google cloud etc. preferred.
* Experience Designing & building secure/scalable (micro)Services based platform
* Extensive experience in unit testing, mocking frameworks, automation frameworks
* DevOps mindset - 5+ years' experience in a mature CI/CD SDLC environment, implemented exception handling, logging, monitoring, performance measurement, operational metrics knowledge
* 3+ years' experience working in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
* Strong communication, partnership, teamwork, and influencing skills are required. Ability to communicate with and present to engineers, senior management & relevant stakeholders
* Led multiple teams in a global delivery, agile, CI/CD, metrics-based setting
* Must have excellent management skills and expertise and be able to mentor team members on development best practices and processes.

Technologies:
* .NET Framework and .NET Core
* C#, ASP.NET MVC, and Web API
* Entity Framework and SQL Programming
* Docker, Kubernetes
* Microservices
* AWS / Azure / Google cloud
* SQL Server, Oracle, or any RDBMS.
* Visual Studio (with ReSharper)
* Knowledge of any frontend tech. Angular, React, VueJS and Bootstrap
* Continuous Integration and Delivery via Jenkins or any other relevant tools
* Test Automation using a combination of NUnit, Specflow, Node.js, and Protractor

Bonus Points:
* Open-source contribution, repositories, personal projects
* Experience with test automation frameworks like Selenium, WebdriverIO, or Cypress
* Participation in communities of interest, meetups
* Certifications in technology, agile methodologies
* Prior experience in agile implemented at scale across multiple teams globally
* M&A Integration experience

The Brightly culture

Service. Ingenuity. Integrity. Together. These values are core to who we are and help us make the best decisions, manage change, and provide the foundations for our future. These guiding principles help us innovate, flourish and make a real impact in the businesses and communities we help to thrive. We are committed to the great experiences that nurture our employees and the people we serve while protecting the environments in which we live.

Together we are Brightly