Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

The Expertise We’re Looking For  

You have a passion for technology and can navigate your way across complex and rapidly changing landscapes by staying on top of latest trends and thrive by sharing knowledge. 

Are a creator, a doer, and a disruptor who will help us solve real-life problems and meet real customer needs. You’ll be helping us build things, taking an idea, and creating rapid prototypes that are shippable and learn from real-life feedback.  

Are comfortable to be a self-starter, who actively challenges status-quo, is curious and not afraid to ask “Why” and “What if”?  

Are experienced with the tools of the trade including a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks 

Care about cycle time and use CI/CD practices, tools to rapidly deploy changes to customers while minimizing risk using practices like A/B tests, blue-green deployments, and feature toggles 

Stay on top of Algorithms, Data Structures and Design Patterns and love the challenge of building highly scalable systems that can support thousands of transactions/sec.  

Have a mindset of test first development and are experienced in modern test frameworks. We believe in testing and that quality is everyone’s job.  

Are data-driven and can measure, collect and use data to make decisions. We understand the value of intuition and the need to balance decisions accordingly. 

Have strong communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in meaningful discussions.  

The Skills You Have 

Ability to triage, complete root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure 

Ability to creatively tackle new, exciting problems in a dynamic environment 

Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups, both in person and virtually, in a constructive and collaborative manner and build and maintain effective relationships 

Positive relationship building, interpersonal and influencing skills 

Technical acuity and engineering mentality 

Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and driving automation. 

The Skills You Bring 

8+ years of software development experience 

You embrace customer-first mentality and enjoy developing user-friendly web applications that solve real life problems 

Strong experience with Angular 12+, RxJS, Redux/NgRx and TypeScript 

Experience with micro front end architectural patterns. 

Expertise with test automation tools and frameworks e.g. Cypress, Playwright, Jest and Storybook. 

Critical problem-solving skills 

Passionate, opinionated about writing clean, testable, readable, and easily maintainable code with a test-first development approach 

Familiarity with developing features for our web experiences using Angular and Microservices in NodeJS/NestJS/GraphQL. 

Working with our product team to ensure we are building the right features based on scope and customer value 

Contributing back to the team by developing solutions that help improve developer efficiency or sharing knowledge about new techniques and technologies.