Principal Software Engineer

Description

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to understand product-level business objectives and align technical strategies within the scope of broader divisional goals.
• Work closely with product line leaders to drive the achievement of business outcomes.
• Engage in high-level strategic discussions while also contributing to technical execution (80% hands-on coding, 20% strategy).

• Engage in hands-on coding to develop and deploy distributed, highly available, and scalable enterprise applications, ensuring quality and performance.
• Relentlessly pursue opportunities to improve team efficiency and accelerate value delivery through innovative tooling, frameworks, and best practices.
• Lead the development of robust software solutions while maintaining high standards for functional and non-functional qualities (defects, performance, stability, security, reliability).
• Evaluate and adopt emergent technologies, ensuring alignment with divisional architecture and business strategies.

• Mentor and coach engineers, providing opportunities for growth and ensuring excellence in software engineering practices.
• Take on challenging tasks beyond the team's current capabilities to help them stretch and grow, while contributing your own coding expertise.
• Encourage risk-taking and experimentation, while minimizing the impact of failed experiments and maximizing the learning experience.
• Increase team autonomy and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Work with Enterprise Architecture to maintain and extend technical guidance, standards, and guardrails specific to the product line.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that design choices align with business and architecture strategy.

Qualifications:

• Technical Expertise: Expert-level understanding of design principles for building and deploying distributed, highly available, and scalable enterprise business applications. Strong hands-on coding experience in C#, .NET Framework, .NET Core, and familiarity with container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Cloud-Native Architecture: Experience designing and coding fault-tolerant enterprise cloud applications in AWS.
• Automation and Agile: Strong background in test automation and experience with continuous integration and delivery using cloud-native toolsets. Familiarity with Agile development frameworks.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Proven ability to solve complex problems in a matrixed environment and manage multiple commitments with high-quality deliverables.
• Mentorship and Communication: Ability to mentor and guide engineers on technologies, architecture, and best practices. Strong communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaboration and Independence: Ability to work independently and collaboratively across functional groups. Effective in a fast-paced environment with strong planning and organizational skills.