Principal Software Engineer ( Scala)

• Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for various software applications and systems.
• Technical Strategy: Drive the technical strategy and vision for major projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices. Communicate complex concepts, anticipate potential objections, and influence others to adopt a point of view.
• Impact: Impact the achievement of area/group objectives. Develop team policies, procedures, and techniques. Drive prioritization of technical debt, articulating the expected impact and outcomes.
• DevOps Model: Oversee CI/CD pipelines, ensuring efficient build, test, and deployment phases. Take ownership from working with product management on requirements to designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software in production.
• Testing: Build testable software, define tests, focus on quality(unit testing, system testing, user acceptance testing) automate tests using tools (e.g., JUnit, Selenium) and design patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide.
• Code Review: Conduct comprehensive code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Mentorship: Provide technical mentorship and guidance, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement. Mentor junior engineers on taking ownership of the full lifecycle of services and features.
• Documentation: Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for software applications and systems.
• Innovation: Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for their adoption where appropriate to drive innovation and productivity enhancement within the team (e.g., CoPilot).

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Deep expertise in programming language SCALA
• Experience building and maintaining scalable applications using Scala technologies, Play and Docker containers.
• Demonstrated proficiency with developing web services, mostly RESTful API.
• Proficiency with Git GitHub as a version control system.
• Experience with PostgreSQL as well as in Unit testing.
• Knowledge of Cats, Ansible, Kubernetes, Redis, Sbt, Odin is a plus.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices preferred.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, GCP, and version control systems like GitHub.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with a commitment to delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Proficiency in building telemetry or observability as part of the development process.