Principle Software Engineer (Remote India)

Job Description:

The Principal Engineer is a key leadership role within the engineering team, responsible for overseeing and guiding complex technical projects, driving innovation, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software products. This role involves a combination of hands-on technical work, strategic planning, and team mentorship. Drive to lead and mentor engineering teams, ability to set technical direction for greenfield SaaS products and excellent communication skills to work with cross-functional teams, including product management and other stakeholders.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Liaise with Product Management, define and prioritize backlog and maintain feature priority with the development teams.
• Help prioritize work, epics and stories with the development teams.
• Act as the voice of the customer within the development teams.
• Prepare technical design specifications based on functional requirements and analysis documents.
• Provide written knowledge transfer material.
• Review functional requirements, analysis, and design documents and provide feedback.
• Implement, test, maintain and support software, based on technical design specifications.
• Improve system quality by identifying issues and common patterns and developing standard operating procedures.
• Enhance applications by identifying opportunities for improvement, making recommendations, and designing and implementing systems.
• Maintain and improve existing codebases and peer review code changes.
• Liaison with colleagues to implement technical designs.
• Investigate and use new technologies where relevant.
• Ability to work independently with wide latitude for independent decision making.
• Experience in leading the work of others and mentor less experienced developers in the context of a project is a plus.
• Ability to listen and understand information and communicate the same.
• Participate in architecture and code reviews.
• Lead or participate in other projects or duties as need arises.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• N/A

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• (MUST HAVE) 10+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments
• (MUST HAVE) Strong OOD and SOA principles, with ability to implement them in a language of choice
• (MUST HAVE) Strong experience leading architecture, design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services.
• (MUST HAVE) Experience working with AWS and/or Azure SaaS infrastructure and CI/CD DevOps technologies, and extensive debugging experience.
• (MUST HAVE) An understanding of unit testing, test driven development, functional testing, and performance testing.
• Experience building front end with React is a big plus.
• Knowledge of database systems (SQL, NoSQL) and data architecture.
• Experience working and integrating with cloud based big data solutions like Snowflake is a big plus.
• Working experience with software security-enhancing tools and best practices.
• Knowledge of at least one shell scripting language.
• Understanding of industry-leading technology/solutions in big data and machine learning/AI.
• Ability to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction, from business strategy to product strategy to high-level technical design to detailed technical design to implementation.
• Ability to work effectively in a ever changing, complex technical environment.
• Experience driving for results across cross-functional teams while maintaining effective working relationships.
• Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Must be results oriented and customer focused with an ability to make successful trade-offs that balance short- and long-term product goals.
• High-energy, self-starter with a positive mindset and with a “can do” attitude.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field; or equivalent combination of education/experience.

• 8 plus years of SAP experience including full ERP implementations in SAP MM, SD and FI

• 5 plus years of experience in various consulting/development roles in the planning, design, and deployment experience in MM, SD and FI

• Fifteen (15) years of experience in software development

• Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience