Principal Software Engineer - AWS

About the role

This position is a hands-on, individual contributor technical leader involved in setting the standards ensuring excellence in quality of outputs across multiple teams. It involves partnering with cross-functional teams and providing input to a broad range of initiatives. The role requires being a thought leader on software engineering issues, industry trends, and developing technologies. It also involves coaching and mentoring team members, taking ownership for creating technical product design and architecture, and collaborating with various teams to shape engineering approaches.

Responsibilities

• Partners with product management to craft product strategy, create product descriptions, and ensure alignment to technology roadmaps.
• Be a thought leader: a senior point of expertise on software engineering issues, industry trends, and developing technologies.
• Be a role model to others on the team.
• Coach and mentor team members.
• Takes ownership for creating technical product design and architecture.
• Create and conduct presentations for small-to-medium size groups.
• Works closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for making Early Warning products better.
• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Design / Engineer product / application service solutions in alignment with technology strategy roadmap (example, cloud, containerization, CI/CD and automated testing) keeping futuristic business growth, ease of maintenance, operational readiness and self-service enabled.
• Collaborate and build relationships cross-functionally to influence and motivate others; serve as an internal catalyst for progressive, strategic, and successful change management.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Requirements

Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field. Fifteen or more years of experience in designing and developing complex software projects with at least eight or more years in FinTech domain. One to two years of experience implementing application solutions/services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines. Experience in leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions. Effective communicator with exceptional public speaking skills. Comfortable presenting to all levels within the company. Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices. Proven track record designing and building complex end-to-end systems (full stack developer). Hands-on experience in designing and developing using the one or more of the following technologies: Java RESTful Web Services (Java, J2EE, JUnit, and Tomcat.), Open Source Frameworks - Spring boot, Spring Core, Messaging frameworks such as Kafka, Tibco EMS or JMS, Oracle PL/SQL, JavaScript and scripting frameworks (JQuery, AngularJS), Test automation at various levels of testing (unit, component, integration and functional tests). Proven experience in OOA/OOD. Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation including GIT, Chef, Maven, Jenkins etc. Solid understanding of modern Cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or MS Azure. Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence).

Qualifications

Knowledge of Splunk, Altiris & Zabbix. Hands-on Experience in working with AWS. Expertise in Terraform and/or other cloud orchestration technologies. Experience with Monitoring & Alerting systems like AppDynamics. Experience with other computer languages like C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP. Knowledge of ACH/EFT. Experience with migrating application services from on-prem to Cloud. Cloud / Kubernetes certification.

Skills

Physical Requirements: Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

Benefits

The Base Pay Scale For This Position In Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $173,000 - $230,000. San Francisco, CA in USD per year is: $207,000 - $276,000. Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits. This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers).