Principal Software Engineer - Ecommerce - Java/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. Responsible for partnering with cross-functional teams and providing input to a broad range of initiatives. A technical expert that is continuously learning and keeping abreast of new technologies and industry best practices, finding ways to bring those practices into the engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product management to craft product strategy, create product descriptions, and ensure alignment to technology roadmaps.
• Serve as 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.
• Take ownership for creating technical product design and architecture.
• Create and conduct presentations for small-to-medium size groups.
• Work closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for making Early Warning products better.
• Partner with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge, and experience.
• Develop, scope, and shape a departmental-wide technical vision for the future.
• Design/engineer product/application service solutions in alignment with technology strategy roadmap (e.g., 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

• 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 the FinTech domain.
• 1-2 years of experience implementing application solutions/services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing, and in compliance with 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 one or more of the following technologies:
  • Java RESTful Web Services (Java, J2EE, JUnit, and Tomcat).
  • Microservices Architecture.
  • 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).
• Hands-on experience in 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 working with code repositories (e.g., Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Bugzilla), and Wikis (e.g., Confluence).

Preferred Qualifications

• System design experience with Commerce, APIs, payment operations, and/or checkout functions.
• Advanced Java and Spring/Spring Boot development.
• AWS-based application architecture.
• Hands-on system design and coding.
• Technical leadership for a delivery team.
• Code and design reviews.
• Mentoring engineers.
• Leading technical planning, decomposition, and execution.
• Coordinating team-level engineering activities without formal people-management responsibility.
• Knowledge of real-time payment networks (RTP, FedNow).
• FinTech experience.
• Kubernetes experience.

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

Pay

The base pay scale for this position in San Francisco, CA is $207,000 - $276,000 USD per year. 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.

Schedule

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

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 a 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.
• Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.