Principal Software Engineer

• Think and own the full life cycle of our products, not just a single piece of code – from business requirements, technology selection, coding standards, agile development, unit and application testing, to CI/CD and proper monitoring
• Design, develop and maintain platforms across the back end area
• Improve scalability, stability, and efficiency of our existing systems
• Write great code and help others write great code
• Collaborate with other teams and departments
  

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• 12+ years’ experience under your belt developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Scala, Java or C#
• Experience in leading projects, initiatives and/or teams, with full ownership of the systems involved
• Data platforms like SQL, Cassandra or Hadoop. You understand that different applications have different data requirements
• Good understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Strong coding ability
• You are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skills
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
  

It’s Great If You Have

• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building large-scale distributed products
• Core engineering infrastructure tools like Git for source control, TeamCity for Continuous Integration and Puppet for deployment
• Hands-on experience working with technology like queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), Play framework, Akka library