Senior Principal Software Developer

The Technical Architecture team is driving the next generation of cloud-native Fusion Applications, using modern industry standard technology and enabling the latest DevOp practices. We are looking for software engineers with an architectural mindset to help put this vision into practice.

One of the key areas we invest in is ensuring high code quality. We are looking for an experienced engineer to build tools to analyze the existing code base and then use this information to educate, enable and encourage developers to follow good coding practices and standards. This will cover a broad range of goals including:

• ensuring consistency across all products
• dependency analysis
• ensuring compliance with defined standards
• improving readability and maintainability of code
• reducing duplication
• establishing good in-built documentation

Career Level - IC5

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

To be able to perform this role, you will have to have a very strong core set of skills:

• Bachelor s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of software development experience
• a thorough grounding in software engineering fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, performance optimization
• a passion for building high quality, well engineered code
• experience analyzing large code bases via static code analysis or other related techniques
• experience driving cross team initiatives
• the ability to proactively find the best solution for a problem by reviewing the latest technologies and methodologies
• 5+ years experience developing Java applications
• an almost obsessive attention to detail
• excellent written and verbal communication skills
  

In addition to these qualities, there are many other skills which would be extremely desirable for this position. You would not be expected to have all these skills, however you should have strong experience in many of them, and be keen to learn expertise in other areas:

• JavaScript
• Python
• REST and microservices
• Oracle Graph DB (or other graph database experience)
• SonarQube (or other static code analysis tools)
• CI/CD
• Oracle Visual Builder/JET
• OCI