Principal Software Engineer
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Job Description
Overview
We are seeking our new Principal Software Engineer to join the Axway team!
As a Principal Engineer you will serve as atechnical visionary and hands-on architect driving the design scalability and resilience of a modern API and integration platform. You will work within and across teams to define and implement architectural standards mentor senior engineers and ensure the platform evolves to meet the demands of high-scale secure and performant systems. This role requires deep technical expertise strategic thinking and a passion for building robust cloud-native infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Architecture & System Design
- Lead the design and evolution of platform architecture ensuring scalability reliability and maintainability.
- Define and enforce architectural standards and best practices across services APIs and data layers.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies (e.g. service mesh observability caching strategies) to improve platform capabilities.
Hands-On Development
- Contribute high-quality production-grade code in Java and other relevant languages.
- Build and optimize core components such as API gateways caching layers (Valkey) and data access patterns for MongoDB and Postgres.
- Collaborate with DevOps to ensure seamless CI/CD observability and infrastructure automation in Kubernetes environments.
Technical Leadership & Mentorship
- Act as a technical mentor to senior and mid-level engineers fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning.
- Lead technical design reviews architecture discussions and code quality initiatives.
- Partner with engineering managers and product leads to align technical direction with business goals.
Cross-Team Collaboration
- Work closely with SREs QA and security teams to ensure platform reliability testability and compliance.
- Collaborate with product and customer-facing teams to translate complex requirements into scalable solutions.
- Influence and contribute to the technical roadmap and long-term platform strategy.
Risk Management & Innovation
- Identify architectural risks and propose mitigation strategies early in the development lifecycle.
- Drive innovation by exploring emerging technologies and patterns relevant to distributed systems and API ecosystems.
Qualifications
Technical Expertise
- 10 years of experience in backend or platform engineering with at least 3 years in a principal or staff-level role.
- Deep expertise inJava with strong knowledge of concurrency memory management and performance tuning.
- Proven experience designing and scalingAPI-driven platformsandintegration services.
- Strong understanding ofEnvoy andAPI gateways.
- Hands-on experience withValkey (or Redis)MongoDB andPostgreSQL including replication sharding and performance optimization.
- Advanced knowledge ofKubernetes container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure.
Systems Thinking & Architecture
- Strong grasp of distributed systems principles including fault tolerance eventual consistency and capacity management.
- Experience with event-driven architectures asynchronous messaging and data streaming (e.g. Kafka) is a plus.
Quality & Observability
- Familiarity with test automation strategies performance testing and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry).
- Experience integrating quality gates and monitoring into development processes.
Leadership & Communication
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across engineering product and leadership teams.
- Proven ability to lead through ambiguity drive consensus and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
- Passion for mentoring and growing engineering talent.
Company Overview
At Axway were more than a companywere a pioneer. For 25 years weve been empowering organizations to achieve digital transformation and unlock innovation. With a presence in 100 countries 11000 customers and a global team of over 1400 passionate professionals Axway is driving the future of enterprise integration.
Were on a mission to be the leaderin our space empowering our customers withsecure mission-critical softwareto manage and deliver impactful business outcomes from all theirdigital business interactions.
Why Axway
We believe in the power of togetherness. When youre part of Axway youre part of a culturally rich and globally connected community that thrives on exchanging ideas and tackling challenges head-on. Whether working remotely or onsite youll find camaraderie collaboration and the support of leadership to inspire you daily.
Here youll grow innovate and succeed because were better together. Each step forward in your personal journey is one we take as a team. Join us and lets accomplish extraordinary things together.
Axway is a proud member of 74Software. Learn more about how Axway is transforming the future: to shape the future Lets get startedbecause at Axway together we can. Together we will.
Axway is an AA and EEO employer
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
