General Summary:

The Principal Software Engineer I is responsible for developing high-quality, innovative, fully performing software in compliance with coding standards. This individual works in partnership with cross-functional teams to ensure that software deliverables, including designs, codes, and tests, are completed in a timely manner, while remaining aligned with industry and organizational standards.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provides support to the Engineering teams, with a high attention to detail

• Researches, analyzes, and documents findings

• May coach and review the work of other team members

• Designs, builds, and maintains large-scale production services, web applications, data pipelines, and streaming systems

• Works on systems critical to company’s current and future operations

• Debugs production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

• Assists with improvement of organizational engineering standards, tooling, and processes

• Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing, and certification of software

• Evaluates codes to ensure validity, proper structure, alignment with industry standards, and compatibility with operating systems

• Maintains an understanding of current technologies or programming practices through continuing education, reading or participation in professional conferences, workshops, or groups

Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required:

• Strong experience in Java / Golang programming, React (Good to have), Kafka, AWS (Other cloud experience is considered).

• Willingness to learn and work on Golang.

• Ability to manage projects and processes independently with limited supervision

• Advanced knowledge of applicable work area

• Ability to situationally adapt and understand new technology/processes as per business requirement

• Knowledge of a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures

• Ability to work constructively and independently under stress and pressure in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment

• Ability to manage competing priorities while producing high quality work

• Ability to interact positively and openly with colleagues and external business contacts, with strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong organization and time-management skills with the ability to meet reasonable deadlines

• Strong knowledge of programming languages and software basics

• Strong knowledge of relevant software development tools including version control, build processes, debuggers, and test frameworks

Educational/Vocational/Previous Experience Recommendations:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent business experience

• 8+ years of relevant experience

Working Conditions:

• Pune (Hybrid)