Principal Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Craftsmanship

• Master in reading, writing, testing and debugging software with several core technical skill sets
• Master and well known advocate of fundamental tools/concepts relevant to your core skills
• Master in writing high quality documentation for developers and end users
• Expected to hold others accountable to high standards and be champion of best practices throughout the organization

Problem Solving

• Master in a variety of software development methods (i.e., Agile, Scrum, etc) and leading multiple teams at the same time
• Master in software architecture and design (docs, diagrams, etc)
• Master at planning, designing and estimation techniques and managing workloads for several teams
• Accountable lead on major efforts (root cause analysis, refactorings, transformational work, etc)
• Review and create work items/streams for several teams, work with product owners/external stakeholders to design realistic roadmaps

Operations

• Master in source control/branching strategies, pull requests, conducting code reviews and building processes to ensure quality is delivered throughout the pipeline
• Set the vision for and govern deployment pipelines and the systems that deliver code to environments
• Vigorously seek to eliminate inefficiencies, require others to improve the process, eliminate waste and cost, etc
• Directly accountable for establishing and enforcing policies/procedures to monitor production applications. Ensure sufficient training, knowledge and coverage is in place to provide production level support

Collaboration

• Visionary leader, orchestrate effective working sessions, lead discussions
• Seasoned in coordinating/orchestrating multiple streams of work with multiple teams
• Create an environment of courtesy/tact and build cross-functional / organizational teams
• Listen, understand and empathize with others and create a supportive environment
• Instill a sense of shared organization-wide goals/objectives, do what it takes to achieve them

Influence and Impact

Orientation to learn

• Self-development is second nature and part of your being
• Teach others to delegate and elevate, lead by example
• Implement career development plans, identify and pair mentor/mentee setups
• Be an organization-wide/industry leader sharing your experience/expertise

Skills and Qualifications

Software Engineers explore a variety of domains throughout their careers. One may start with front end development and then transition to back end. An application engineer may start learning DevOps and eventually support a product as an SRE.

The team is looking for a versatile engineer that can impact a project across multiple service tiers. A typical Software Engineer at this level would meet the qualifications in several of the following domains:

Web Front End

• Master in HTML/CSS/JScript
• Master in at least one framework (Angular, React, Vue, Svelte, etc) and substantial experience with others and can compare/contrast to select best fit
• Master in at least one design framework (Material, Bootstrap, Tailwind, etc) and substantial experience with others and can compare/contrast to select best fit
• Substantial experience with a variety of web technologies/use-cases (static and template generators, CMS, e-Commerce platforms, etc)

Service Backend

• Master in at least one programming languages (JavaScript, C#, GoLang, Python, etc) and substantial experience with others and can compare/contrast to select best fit
• Master in at least one frameworks (Express.js, .Net , gin, flask, etc) and substantial experience with others and can compare/contrast to select best fit
• Master in Application Design (APIs, Integrations, Messaging, Streams, Queues, REST, GraphQL, MVC, Websockets, etc) and ability to compare/contrast to select best fit approach
• Master in a substantial amount of coding concepts (Design Patterns, Functional Programming, DDD, TDD, DRY, SOLID, etc)

Data

• Master in manipulating all types of data formats (JSON, CSV, XML, etc) and proficient with several specialized formats (Proto Buffs, gRPC, Thrift, parquet , etc)
• Master in several data technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL, Caches, Search-based, Graphs, etc) and ability to compare/contrast to select best fit
• Master in several processing techniques (ORM/ODM, OLAP/OLTP, ODBC, Batch, Streaming, etc) and ability to compare/contrast to select best fit

Cloud

• Master in at least one cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) and experience with several others
• Master in Cloud Architecture (Storage, Networking, CDN, DNS, Docker/Containers, Serverless, Managed services such as RDS/ECS/SQS/SNS, etc)

Security

• Master in common security concepts (threats, vulnerabilities, exploits, etc)
• Master in security protection techniques and sources (code scanning, dependency updates, OWASP top 10, etc)
• Master in secure coding practices (input/output validations, sanitization, error checking, filtering, RBAC, etc)
• Master in cryptography (in transit and at rest, SSL, ciphers, certificates, etc)
• Expert understanding of regulatory and compliance laws and concepts (Data Privacy, GDPR, CCPA, Health, HIPAA, PII, PHI, Accessibility, WCAG, etc)

DevOps

• Master in git (repo management, branching, merging, etc)
• Master in several SCM's (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc)
• Master in several IaC technologies (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc)
• Master in creating and managing pipelines (build, test, scan, deploy, etc)

SRE

• Master in several observability areas (monitoring, logging, alerts, distributed tracing, golden signals, etc)
• Master in several observability technologies (ELK, Prometheus, DataDog, New Relic, Splunk, etc)