Principal Software Engineer

What you will do…

• Architect and implement innovative solutions by identifying and tackling opportunities in complex systems, and making trade-offs between balancing new technology, providing incremental business value, and simplifying our platform.
• Enable teams to deliver customer value, drive business growth, and build scalable technology platforms for the future, by sharing expertise, fostering collaboration, and overseeing technical aspects of projects.
• Improve the observability of our production services, allowing the team to quickly highlight gaps, resolve issues, and understand the performance of our systems.
• Lead by example with a high standard for coding practices, including practical coding standards, modern software development approaches, test automation, and a strong focus on security.
• Share your expertise by training and guiding other engineers, fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented environment.
• Engage with engineers and partners across the organization to solve problems with broad impact, stay ahead of the curve with new technologies, and advocate for modern and effective tech stacks.

Your experience should include...

• Track record of delivering capabilities that have built customer value and business impact.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience and a proven track record of success.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Testing, CICD, Git, Streaming technologies like RabbitMQ and Kafka, Relational and no-SQL Databases, and Docker/Kubernetes.
• Ability to work with NodeJS and PHP services, as well as understand Go and Python.
• Working with high-traffic systems that are mission-critical to business.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced agile development environment with frequent releases on codebases that are open for inner source contributions.
• Knowledge of principles for high-performance design for both REST APIs and web vitals.
• Experiment experience, guiding teams to build capabilities iteratively to meet customer expectations.

You might also have…

• Worked with frontend technologies like React and Next JS.
• Experience with multiple "last mile" tools like grunt, gulp, or webpack to ship production-ready software.
• Experience managing or contributing to open-source projects is a plus