Principal Software Engineer

Description

• Design, implement, test, and scale micro services environment as part of the platform engineering team.
• Develop software that is aligned with user needs and business goals.
• Develop platform RESTful APIs (application program interface) to serve front-end applications (website, mobile app, etc.) and ensure that code meets architectural vision and software quality.
• Write code that is testable, scalable, and maintainable.
• Contribute to engineering efforts from design to implementation, solving complex technical challenges around developer and engineering productivity and velocity.
• Document and demonstrate software solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, design diagrams, code comments, and clear code.
• Implement the designs in test-driven development process with both unit and integration tests.
• Implement continuous integrated build, deploy processes and dev-ops model with automated infrastructure and horizontal scaling.
• Analyze emerging development tools and programming techniques. 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7 years of progressive experience developing, designing, and architecting commercial web-applications (e-commerce) and micro services systems.
• Work experience to include: (1) 5 years of experience with algorithms, data structures, and software application design and architecture. (2) 5 years of experience working with Web Application Frameworks and CMS systems. (3) 5 years of experience coding in Java, JavaScript, ReactJS and Responsive web design. (4) 5 years of experience operationalizing and scaling software solutions. (5) 5 years of experience working on scalable, high-performance server solutions (working on systems that managed at least 500 order/min transactions and serving 5,000 pages/min web pages). (6) 5 years of experience with Test-Driven Development and Agile methodologies. (7) 5 years of experience implementing modularized or componentized code using TypeScript, Angular or React. (8) 5 years of experience leading a software development project from beginning to end. (9) 5 years of experience with data processing and storage solutions, including Redis or Memcache. (10) 5 years of experience working with search and real time retrieval solutions, including Elasticsearch or Apache Solr. (11) 5 years of experience with the following technical skillsets: Backbone, AJAX, REST, XML/JSON, HTML5, Splunk, SignalFX, Tomcat, NodeJS, Apache Web Server, JIRA, and MongoDB.
• Any and all experience may be gained concurrently.
• 40 hrs./wk.
• Salary: $226,158 to $231,158 per year.
• Address of employment: This is a 100% telecommute position from anywhere in the United States reporting to Shutterfly, LLC’s office located at 10 Almaden Blvd., Suite 900, San Jose, CA 95113.