Principal Software Engineer , Java

• The Software Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software applications for our core product
• This includes developing software components including Frameworks, APIs, Websites, Utilities, Databases and Internet-related tools
• Determines hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design when applicable
• Act with Integrity and Professionalism should be able to communicate openly with the respective stake holder and ask for guidance

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of experience with Kotlin or Java
• Experience in API Development and Relational database systems
• Working knowledge of JVM web frameworks such as Dropwizard
• Understand reliability and microservice monitoring best practice

Desired:

• Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs
• Experience with Microservices and Distributed systems

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle.
• Conducts systems analysis and makes recommendations to improve the system to achieve an outcome.
• Promotes internal best practices and coding conventions to write and execute tests for your own code, including creating comprehensive unit tests.
• Contributes to Technical Requirements Documents.
• Communicates successfully with large teams and many stakeholders.
• Provides mentorship for Software Engineers and participates in interview panels to hire new Software Engineers.
• Assists in removing obstacles for the team to yield successful sprints.
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.
• Ability to decompose and delegate work to junior engineers.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional organizations.
• All other duties as assigned.