Principal Engineer
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design and build high performance, scalable and reliable component-based applications using latest technologies such as AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch etc.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers
- Collaborate across teams for developing or enhancing product features
- Help define architecture & assist throughout refinement process
- Effectively communicate software solution expectations to internal customers, team members and other stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
- Discuss the merits of various approaches with peers and junior engineers
- Develop new applications as well as enhance and support existing applications
- Provide guidance to resolve production problems in a timely manner by rapidly organizing and deploying the appropriate resources
- Continuously review problems to determine the root cause to prevent them in the future
- Ensure that secure coding practices are followed throughout the software life cycle
- Participate in planning meetings, retrospectives, daily stand ups, and other meetings as part of the software development process
- Provide guidance to team members to research and experiment with new tools and technologies, build working PoCs, conduct knowledge sharing sessions and provide recommendations for product improvement
- Champion own ideas as well as team's ideas
- Learn in area of leadership, management and agile
- Understand the view of all the scrum teams from an engineering and architectural perspective as well as the business objectives
- Help identify organizational impediments
- 8-12 years experience working in in Java, SQL, XML, JSON
- Experience with AWS or any cloud provider, Docker, Elasticsearch is a plus
- Experience leading small-medium sized technical teams
- Experience in creating and consuming RESTful services & APIs
- Experience working in Web Application Frameworks such as Angular or React
- Experience working with Spring and Message Queues
- Working knowledge of software development tools, testing methodologies, continuous integration and Agile processes
- Ability to easily express architectural ideas to engineers and non-technical members
- Ability to guide junior engineers to quickly debug problems based on experience and prior patterns
- Self manage time and tasks with little to no direction from others
- Identify subtle or well hidden technical debt, understand some of the organizational technical debt
- Strong teamwork and problem-solving skills
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one as well as in large-group setups
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audience
- Minimum of bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field) from four-year college or university