PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary... Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events. What youll do...

• Understand business problems and suggest technology solutions.
• Architect, design, build and deploy technical solution to business and non functional problems at scale.
• Build and optimize distributed data processing jobs and pipelines..
• Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.
• Mentor/coach other engineers in the group to facilitate their development and to provide technical leadership to them.
• Rise above details as and when needed to spot broader issues/trends and implications for the product/team as a whole.

• B.E./B. Tech/M Tech/MS in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in design and development of high scale applications development in product based companies or R&D divisions.
• 8+ years of experience building microservices using JAVA
• Strong background in computer science: algorithms and data structures.
• Strong coding skills with Java.
• Proven experience in writing extensible and testable software.
• Proficient with design patterns, OOP, and/or Functional programming.
• Proficient in designing robust, large scale backend system, considering for performance, scalability, security, maintainability and fault tolerance.
• Experience with Docker containerization, Kubernetes, GCP, and/or Azure.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to work independently and in a team.
• Exposure to ML algorithms, tools, and ML systems is nice to have.
• Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills

Minimum Qualifications... Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and5 years experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years experience in software engineering or related area. Preferred Qualifications... Master s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years experience in software engineering or related area.