Position Description:
Develops enhancements to support implementation across the organization and creates enhancements related to upgrades. Designs and implements Application Programming Interface (API) best practices for product areas. Uses business knowledge to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex or multiple software applications and conducting studies of alternatives. Analyzes and recommends changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Participates in architecture design teams.
- Defines and implements application-level architecture.
- Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division.
- Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans.
- Responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables.
- Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.
- Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms.
- Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget.
- Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects.
- Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.
- Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues.
- Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives.
- Advises senior management on technical strategy.
- Mentors junior team members.
- Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives.
- Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and supporting enterprise frameworks, tools, and libraries, using Java, Node and Python programming languages.
Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and supporting enterprise frameworks, tools, and libraries, using Java, Node and Python programming languages.
Skills and Knowledge:
Candidate must also possess:
- Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) developing enterprise frameworks and modules using Java, Node, and Python, by applying appropriate structural and creational design patterns in generating code to ensure flexibility, reusability, and adherence to organizational standards and guidelines across all application layers.
- DE designing and developing complex asynchronous backend and full-stack systems in multi-cloud environment (AWS and Azure) using Spring Boot, Angular, Kafka, Oracle, and ActiveMQ Artemis.
- DE deploying containerized services and APIs in cloud managed Kubernetes service -- AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)) following deployment strategies -- blue-green, rolling, and canary deployment across the environment.
- DE performing Java testing methodologies using Junit, TestNG, Mockito, AssertJ, and Spock within automated test environments powered by Jenkins pipelines; validating framework functionality, performance, and metrics through observability platforms –Datadog, Splunk, Grafana and Prometheus; and using SonarQube tool to inspect code quality, CodeQL for static application security testing, and Mend for software composition analysis across Java, Node, and Python programming languages.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems or related field plus five years as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or foreign equivalent)
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems or related field plus three years as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or foreign equivalent)
- Demonstrated expertise developing enterprise frameworks and modules using Java, Node, and Python
- Designing and developing complex asynchronous backend and full-stack systems in multi-cloud environments (AWS and Azure) using Spring Boot, Angular, Kafka, Oracle, and ActiveMQ Artemis
- Deploying containerized services and APIs to managed Kubernetes services (AKS and EKS) and implementing blue-green, rolling, and canary deployment strategies
- Experience with Java testing methodologies and frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, AssertJ, Spock within automated Jenkins pipeline environments
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms: Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus
- Experience using SonarQube, CodeQL (SAST), and Mend (SCA) for code quality and security/composition analysis
- Design and implement API best practices and application-level architecture
- Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and act as a primary technical liaison to business units
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
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