Principal Engineer - Java / AWS - Cloud Engineering team
Location: Scottsdale - hybrid
USC/GC only. No sponsorship: This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship. Must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in migrating systems from on-premises to native cloud architecture.
- Solid understanding of Cloud design, preferably on AWS
technology stack is Java, Springboot and Cloud engineering.
Overall Purpose
This position is a hands-on, individual contributor technical leader involved in setting the standards ensuing 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 and finding ways to bring those practices into the engineering organization.
Essential Functions
- 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.
- Creates and conducts presentations for small-to-medium size groups.
- Works closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for making fintech company products better.
- Partners 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.
- 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field.
- Proven record in designing and delivering scalable, highly available, high transaction systems.
- Ten or more years of experience in designing and developing complex software projects.
- 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.)
- Experience in Microservices Architecture.
- Open Source Frameworks - Spring boot, Spring Core
- Messaging frameworks such as Kafka, Tibco EMS or JMS
- Relational and NoSQL databases
- 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
- Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence)
- Background and drug screen.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in migrating systems from on-premises to native cloud architecture.
- Solid understanding of Cloud design, preferably on AWS