Principal software engineer (remote)

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our growing team and contribute to our next-generation technology platform. This role is responsible for the full software development life cycle, from ideation to deployment. As a Principal Engineer, you will have relevant experience across a variety of tech stacks, cloud platforms, architecture and design patterns, development frameworks and third-party libraries. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical expertise, ability to understand customer needs and market trends, and possess excellent communication skills to collaborate with product leadership and other stakeholders. This individual must be a creative technologist, obsessed with creating seamless customer experiences, team player, organized, and able to thrive in a dynamic environment.

Our engineering team is built on the principle of humans over code. We are a tight-knit group of lifelong learners in a constant quest to be a team that is greater than the sum of its parts. Come join us!

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Understand product vision and translate the same into actionable initiatives for engineering teams.
• Design, develop, and test software applications following best practices and established standards.
• Collaborate with and influence Product Managers and Designers to drive creation of world-class market leading platforms.
• Set short to medium term technical direction, creating plans to help achieve goals.
• Participate in and lead peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Collaborate on architecture decisions, ensuring that we are adapting and evolving to meet organization’s scaling business needs.
• Coach and mentor software engineers to promote a culture of engineering excellence and ownership.
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and stakeholders.
• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on time and within budget.
• Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in solution architecture and technology innovation.
• Contribute towards defining and establishing benchmarks, metrics, and quality measures.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software, and provide end customer support as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in software or solution architecture roles, with a focus on designing and implementing complex, enterprise-level solutions using cloud platform.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and architectural frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery patterns, Cloud foundational patterns, Observability patterns, Developer experience patterns.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

Technical Proficiency and Skills:

• Proficiency with:
• js/React/TypeScript
• Mobile Development Tools such as React Native
• Apollo GraphQL
• Git Version Control System
• PostgreSQL
• Docker Container
• Enterprise development platforms, such as .Net framework
• CI/CD Pipelines and Testing Automation Tools
• Experience with one or more cloud platforms, such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Great attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Experience delivering individual and institutional client facing solutions; Web Portal(s), online payments, and third-party integrations.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Expertise in delivering secure, high performance, fault tolerant, and high availability solutions.
• Experience with DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, SecDevOps, Containers, Serverless.

Other Requirements:

• Infrequent travel (10%).
• Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.