Principal Software Engineer

Job Description :

The Role :

- Should have rich knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies; excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of resolving multiple complex issues and motivating team to achieve peak performance

- Create a comprehensive architecture for a software solution and providing strategic direction throughout the development process.

- Design and develop high-performance, scalable, and reliable solutions using Java, Spring boot, Microservices technologies.

- Work closely with business stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, translating them into technical specifications and architectural designs.

- Convert visionary concepts into enterprise-wide systems.

- Coordinate with all stakeholders in architectural designs and software development.

- Ensure compliance of best practices and policies in software development.

- Perform code reviews and provide feedback to team members to maintain code quality and adherence to best practices.

- Providing guidance for the architectural planning for framework.

- Monitor team of developers and engineers, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and support to ensure the successful implementation of projects.

- Creating technical literature, such as training materials or sample code, to encourage acceptance of frameworks

- Ensuring system integrity by utilizing proper architectural designs

- Advising on security methods and implementing them

- Design and deploy Java applications.

- Develop strategic, logical and physical designs.

- Ensure products or projects are robust, scalable and extensible.

- Expertise in using Agile methodology

- Analyze user requirements to define business objectives

- Envisioning system features and functionality

- Define application objectives and functionality

- Ensure application designs conform with business goals

- Identify and resolve any technical issues arising

- Write well-designed, testable code

- Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging

- Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review

- Decomposes complex processes into simple straight forward solutions.

- Force multiplier - educates the larger TPM and engineering community on best practices within (organization, location, program).

- Contributions are noteworthy and recognized across client environment (i.e. bottleneck reduction, engineer efficiency, product quality)

- May work directly with external to the organization or external to partner providers that support our implementation plans and backlogs roadmaps identifying opportunities to be faster, better and cheaper.

- Influence dependent organizations backlogs roadmaps by contributing to their backlog grooming and goal setting exercises

- Active participant in the community sharing your program management knowledge within your organization and more broadly presenting at both internal and external events

- Plays active role in mentoring and recruiting others.

Requirements :

- Good hands-on in Java, J2EE, Databases (Postgres), Web Services (REST, SOAP), Spring boot, Spring MVC, Spring 4.0,Hibernate/JPA, API Gateway, Azure and Microservices.

- 5-12 years of experience desired in designing software solutions using software architecture design principles.

- Payment domain expertise and ability to drive the team, integrations, migrations, create approach

- Good to have experience in Angular, and front end technologies.

- Understanding of Kafka, PCF, Integration patterns, Security standards, Concurrency and Multi-threading, Collections, PostgreSQL, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes

- Hands-on, high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to function independently under pressure.

- Strong Problem Solving skills

- Distributed systems (Databases, caches, microservices, message broker)

- API and Contract Testing using REST Assured/Postman/Swagger/SOAP UI + Groovy/Spring Cloud Contractc

- Test Driven Development TDD Methodology and Unit Testing using Junit/XCTest

- Use of mocking frameworks such as API Service Virtualization/Mockito/OCMock

- Static Code Analysis using SonarQube/Xcode Static Analyzer

- Hands on with Jenkins/PCF or similar tools for automated provisioning of build and test infrastructure

- Troubleshooting with Splunk, API aids like Swagger/Postman and source control systems like Git

- Intermediate knowledge of Maven, Junit, Redis, Oracle database, SQL, Unix command, Shell scripting.

- Good to have exposure to Financial/Banking Domain, Frontend development, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap/Material UI, Angular.

- Good knowledge of tools like Sonar, Data-dog/Dynatrace, GIT, SVN, Rally/Jira, CI (Jenkin / Bamboo)/CD, Splunk

- Strong communication skills - both verbal and written - with strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills

- Proven experience in Agile methodology, SDLC & implementation of Projects, debugging the applications.

- Expert with agile deliver using Lean Product management, Lean Management and DevOps practices.

- Drive, influence and coach for transformational change in the evolution of our end to end product delivery using agile development methodology

- Drive clarity and work with complete independence where business and/or strategy is not defined

- Comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space, and understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors

- Understand the reasons behind architectural decisions

- Use technical judgment to challenge and validate assumptions and enlist Sr. engineering support to vet architecture as required

- Run and manage agile process - grooming, planning, prioritization and retrospectives - for multiple teams.

- Understand technical program management and engineering best practices and apply best practices to delivery using a number of agile and blended approaches, as well effectively coordinating the implementations across using very different approaches

- Recognize prior failure patterns and help teams avoid repeating these mistakes

- Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for

- Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs

- Have software engineering or product management experience and background