Principal Application Software Engineer

Role Overview

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership skills, serving as a trusted technical advisor while remaining actively engaged in software design and development. This individual will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and platform teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet business and customer needs.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale software systems and services.
• Drive technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across multiple projects and teams.
• Serve as a technical lead for critical initiatives, providing guidance through design, development, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Establish and promote software engineering best practices, coding standards, and design principles.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks while ensuring solutions meet scalability, reliability, and performance requirements.

Software Development

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend services and applications.
• Build and support distributed systems and microservices-based architectures.
• Ensure solutions are secure, maintainable, observable, and operationally efficient.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues while driving root-cause analysis and long-term improvements.
• Participate in code reviews and architectural reviews to maintain engineering excellence.

Team Leadership and Mentorship

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineers across the organization.
• Guide and support teams of approximately 5-6 engineers through technical execution and delivery.
• Foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous learning, innovation, and accountability.
• Assist in technical skill development, career growth, and knowledge sharing within the team.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Platform, Security, and Operations teams to deliver business value.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support planning, estimation, prioritization, and execution of strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 7-9+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience developing enterprise-scale backend systems using Java, Ruby, or other object-oriented programming languages.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, APIs, scalability, resiliency, and performance optimization.
• Experience building and supporting cloud-native applications in modern engineering environments.
• Proven experience serving as a technical lead, leading projects and mentoring engineers.
• Experience guiding and supporting teams of approximately 5-6 engineers through technical execution and delivery.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, data structures, algorithms, and system architecture.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments requiring reliability, security, and compliance.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar engineering productivity platforms.

Success Factors

• Demonstrates strong technical leadership and sound architectural decision-making.
• Successfully delivers scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Enables team success through mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance.
• Drives engineering excellence through best practices and continuous improvement.
• Effectively collaborates across organizations to achieve business and technical objectives.

Application Instructions

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