Sr. Principal Software Engineer
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Job Description Currently seeking a thoughtful, well-rounded software developer to be part of the Business Technology - Application Development. In this role, the individual will work in a highly technical agile team environment which develops mobile apps utilizing the latest Discover platforms for continuous delivery and cloud development. The individual will be required to foster collaboration and provide thought leadership while contributing to the development of modern software.Responsible for researching, implementing, and evolving mobile product and enterprise building blocks that improve the efficiency, availability and performance of Discover mobile app. Responsible for the success of multiple team's technical execution and processes.
What you will do
- Deliver on all product development phases from planning, application development, release, and support.
- Drive product quality through paired programming and test driven development.
- Ensure applications meet security, high availability, and maintainability requirements.
- Develop application code using languages such as ReactJs and React Native frameworks.
- Develop / maintain a CICD pipeline to build, test, and deploy application artifacts.
- Learn new technologies and promote the adoption of new frameworks to gain competitive edge in delivering value to customers.
- Take necessary steps (prioritization, mentoring, and assistance) to enable the team to be a high value, cross-functional, autonomous unit.
- Work directly with business partners to understand business requirements. Work independently or with own team to innovate and advocate for best practices within the team.
- Design complex solutions and lead them from inception to production within the Agile team.
- Write technical requirements and design documents in support of the initiatives in the mobile platforms.
- Maintain highly available systems. Ensure all projects and releases are appropriately tested and risks are mitigated.
How you will do
As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will create and maintain mobile solutions in one or more ways:
- Work on complex front-ends (user interfaces), with a focus on user experience
- Plan how we build and integrate new systems by leveraging your holistic knowledge of the mobile ecosystem
- Collaborate with our business partners to understand all business requirements
- Innovate on best practices for our team and advocate for improved processes with our internal partners
- Support live systems to ensure business continuity
- Solve complex technical problems and explore new ways to bring value
- Guide our team through implementing new solutions from inception to production
- Mentor and inspire our team members by helping them to hone tech skills/expertise
- Keep up-to-date with new technology trends and innovations
- Leverage your network to bring the best of the best to our technology organization
- Be current on industry mobile landscape, and evaluate new technologies as they come into the market.
- Focus on the Mobile Developer experience, and identify opportunities to improve our development processes to increase the mobile developer experience
The Basics
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology
- 10 years in Computer Science, Information Technology or Equivalent Experience
- In lieu of degree, 12+ years in Computer Science, Information Technology or Equivalent Experience
Bonus Points/Nice to have
- Experience with Mobile app development
- Knowledge of React, Redux, and Frontend application frameworks
- Experience with React Native (or React) app and REST Web Services development
- Expertise in object-oriented design and implementation, and capable of forming a deep understanding of our underlying frameworks and languages
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Understanding of REST Web Services, JSON and Design Patterns using various technologies
- Experience with JavaScript, Node.js, GitHub, and Git Command line is a plus
- Strong debugging skills with the ability to reach out and work with peers to solve complex problems
- Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory
- Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database
- Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
- Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.
- Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application
- Build secure web applications with user authentication
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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