Principal Software Engineer

Position Overview:

• As the Principal Software Engineer you will play a crucial role in enhancing and maintaining our SaaS platform which is hosted on AWS.
• You will lead a talented team of engineers collaborating with crossfunctional teams to deliver robust and scalable solutions.
• The ideal candidate will have extensive experience background in backend development cloud architecture and possess expertise in AWS services.
• Principal Engineering experience: Can guide a team to successful outcomes by architecting overall solutions ensuring that work across the team meets a high standard and helping the team focus on efficient solutions to business problems. Their quality of work and overall approach to problemsolving means that review of their work is mostly for the sake of discussion/clarity rather than to ensure quality.
• Resounding experience managing an onshore / offshore development team structure ensuring seamless collaboration and proper delineation of responsibilities.
• Confident and clear communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a nontechnical audience.
• High level of experience with RESTful Web patterns and documentation standards.
• Solid experience with GraphQL patterns and documentation standards.
• Strong experience with backend Linuxbase environments and frontend browser technologies.
• Experience delivering and supporting full stack systems.
• Sound knowledge of the full software development life cycle.
• Have participated on development teams that are supporting high traffic in terms of users and/or devices.
• Experience in objectoriented design and programming design patterns and related frameworks.
• Demonstrated expertise in continuous integration/delivery/deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers in designing developing testing and maintaining scalable backend services.
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Architect build and maintain backend components of our SaaS platform hosted on AWS.
• Ensure high performance availability and scalability of the platform.
• Implement best practices for security data protection and compliance.
• Own the DevOps and Infrastructure patters for our web application.

Technical Requirements:

• Strong experience with AWS services including but not limited to EKS EC2 Lambda S3 RDS DynamoDB and API Gateway.
• Expertise in containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Indepth knowledge of microservices architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with serverless computing and eventdriven architecture.
• Solid understanding of database systems both SQL and NoSQL.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Strong problemsolving and debugging skills.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Backend Web Tech Stack:

• Language: TypeScript
• Framework: Apollo/GraphQL
• Testing: Jest
• DB/ORM: Postgres/Sequelize
• Infra: AWS/EKS

Frontend Web Tech Stack:

• Language: TypeScrips
• Framework: Angular/GraphQL
• Testing: Karma
• Infra: AWS/EKS

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a backend software engineer in a leadership role supporting large user bases.

• AWS certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect AWS Certified Developer) strongly preferred.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.