Principal Software Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer highly skilled in core Microsoft technologies with experience shipping enterprise-level software to join our team. 

Working as part of our engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in the global scalability, support and enhancement of an industry leading, enterprise-grade platform that is revolutionizing the way IT companies do business, globally. 

What you’ll do 

• Work closely with executive & business leadership on major initiatives, new product development and large-scale architectures  

• Lead entire projects through short-term and long-term roadmap development, contributing required technical guidance in a business leadership context 

• Ensure architecture & implementation strategies can be achieved in a complete, cost effective and timely manner 

• Effectively work across multiple major project areas, ensuring roadmap congruence across large-scale projects 

• Act as the architect of partial or whole projects, ensuring downstream designs & implementation plans are adherent and sustainable 

• Establish and maintain architecture, security, coding standards, design patterns and best practices​ 

• Lead and implements tools & technology stack selection, optimizing for security, quality, reliability, and cost  

• Lead analysis and identification of fixes for defects outside their immediate areas of responsibility 

• Lead implementation of solutions for security, architectural, pattern, performance or reliability across large areas or whole code projects 

• Establish security, performance, quality, reliability and cost expectations for whole projects and ensures measurability of each 

• Lead major incident RCAs, producing actionable, effective, and sustainable change 

• Own and maintain comprehensive documentation systems for entire project areas, ensuring adherence, consistency and sustainability 

• Mentor other team members on development skills, code base knowledge and production environment knowledge 

• Hold team members accountable for security, quality, performance, reliability and cost-related aspects of development 

• Influence cross-product engineering leadership on architecture, standards, practices, process, cost, quality and security measures 

• Assist in diligence and technical evaluations of potential partners or acquisitions 

• Lead large cross functional task force teams with significant risks and resource requirements 

• Organize and facilitate companywide software engineering initiatives to improve organizational competency and/or processes, advocate for realistic timelines across the business 

• Ensure the health and availability of the production application through monitoring, analysis of event logs and debugging high priority production issues 

• Develop and maintain tooling to improve development, provisioning and deployment processes 

  

About You 

• B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field 

• 15+ years of experience programming in C#, ASP.Net, .Net Framework, .Net Core 

• Strong computer science fundamentals: industry standard patterns and practices 

• Experience leading platform architecture, overall application design, advising on appropriate patterns for security, quality, reliability, cost and integration requirements 

• Experience leading secure software design & implementation for large scale, global SAAS platforms 

• Experience with strategy, planning and implementation of operations management across multiple production & pre-production environments 

• Ability to identify, socialize and resolve major risks in code and production environments 

• Extensive experience diagnosing service interruption and performance-related issues 

• Experience working with cross functional teams completing root cause analysis, debugging code and bug fixes 

• Passionate technologist looking to teach and learn from the best in software development 

• Independent, driven, creative and likes to take ownership 

• Extensive experience with modern authentication mechanisms 

• Comfortable communicating with a wide variety of stakeholders to understand and execute on development roadmaps 

Technology & Tools 

• Core Microsoft technologies - C#, MSSQL, .Net, ASP.Net 

• Microsoft Azure 

• API development - REST, SOAP 

• Front-end development HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript 

• Modern security patterns and practices 

• Current architectural styles and design patterns  

• Continuous integration systems