Principal Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide hands on technical leadership and guidance to software engineers, ensuring best practices, architectural integrity, and efficient development processes.
• AI Integration & Tooling: Proficiency in using LLM APIs, building RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems, and mastering prompt engineering to bake AI features into standard applications.
• AI-Assisted Development: The ability to use AI coding assistants (like GitHubCopilot or Cursor) to accelerate writing, debugging, and refactoring code through effective task decomposition.
• Data & MLOps Foundations: Core technical knowledge in data preprocessing, and cloud deployment (AWS/Azure) to manage and scale AI models in production environments.
• Lead foundational product initiatives and set technical vision for applications.
• Innovate on and advocate for best practices and improved processes within the team and with internal partners; stays up to date with technology trends and innovations.
• Research and make recommendations on software products and services in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Design and develop large scale solutions using Java/J2EE/GoLang/React/AI/ELK/NATS/Kafka and web technology stacks.
• Manage a team of software engineers and software development leads, and oversee/coordinate the work of offshore development teams.

Requirements

• Must have 5 years of experience working in a supervisory, architect, and/or technical lead role throughout the software development lifecycle.
• This experience must have included the following:
• Design and implementation throughout the software development lifecycle of at least two large-scale integrated systems, at least one of which involved leadership of a cross-border development team.
• At least one project requiring the design of database schema and performance tuning data queries for complex, high volume systems utilizing RDBMS and NoSQL technologies.
• At least one project where the duties include creating and managing the development plan and ensuring that the triple constraint for projects (Scope, Schedule, and Budget/Efforts) is being met.
• At least one project involving the implementation of large-scale solutions in a warehouse controls and execution systems domain using the following tools/technologies: C; C++; C#; Java/J2EE; PL/SQL; React; ELK; and event driven and web technologies with micro-services architecture.
• Leading the collaboration between Software development team with other business stakeholders and customers to define the operational and technical scenarios and provide the Software solution to handle such scenarios.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
• Requires 5 years of experience as a software engineer.

Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $133,200 to $199,800. This base salary range represents the low and high end of the base salary range for this position. Actual base salary offered will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and performance.