Job Overview
- Experience Level
- +8 years
- Employment Type
- Full-time
- Workplace Type
- Not specified
- Location
- Not specified
- Job function
- IT & Tech
- Application Deadline
- 28 September 2024
About the Role
Job Summary:
The Principal Engineer owns API and integrations capabilities/teams. The Principal values simplicity and is unafraid to challenge technical constraints and procedures to achieve an Agile design. The Principal will drive the teams engineering practices in test driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment. The Principal is a hands-on team member who actively consulting and being a reference expert to the team for solving complex problems.
Responsibilities:
- Seen as reference and expert to all tech leads to prepare low-level designs for team members, in collaboration with Solution/Software Architect - Guides project teams on technology strategy related to coding practices, continuous integration and automated deployment - Accountable for the technical design of the product - Be hands on and engage in coding to help the team to develop his solution and solve all surfacing problems at hand Identifies and removes technical impediments - Thought partners with the Product owner in story creation and acceptance criteria, and communicate tradeoffs effectively with Designers - Constantly looking for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo - Provides the team a roadmap for implementing software engineering practices for higher code quality - Reporting to Head of Engineering, aligning technology stack and implementation challenges.
Requirements
Requirements:
- 8-15 YoE, Seen as expert in developing backend integration and REST API using Spring framework Java/Kotlin, micro-service and native-cloud - Can assist and support in making architecture decisions at a team and product level - Seasoned software developer Java, Kotlin, Spring-boot, Spring-cloud, Junit, NoSQL DB, In-memory cache, API Gateway, Design-Patterns, Logging, Spring-Security, Maven, with deep insight into newest technologies such as Python - Hands-on experience in production Cloud Docker, DevOps CI/CD environments - Nice to have experience in Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, Kubernetes, OpenAPI, Gradle, and Linux shellscripting. - Knowledge in any other languages such as NodeJS, GoLang, and/or Python a plus - Experience in Agile Development, with specific Solution Architect (or similar) experience preferred - Understands relationship with Product Owner, Scrum Master, Design Lead and rest of technical team - Experience managing technical priorities within the Backlog - Strong communication skills with ability to align the organization on complex technical decisions - Active coach and mentor whose goals are to grow and maximize the team’s potential - Strong leadership skills mainly inspirational and team-forming capabilities - High energy and passionate individual who inspires teammates to reach their maximum potential - Excited about trying new solutions outside standard approved - Embraces a culture of trust, free thought complete transparency - Brave and rebellious, willing to challenge status quo