Principal Application Engineer

Job Description

• Hands on experience with Multi-tier web application development, Microservices architecture , Micro Frontends , JAVA, J2EE, SQL Datastore, Node JS, React, Spring Boot,Helidon, Cloud Ecosystem Knowledge, Kubernetes , Docker , Security best practices , Devops & resiliency engineering
• Solve complex architecture/design & business problems, work to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, etc.
• Thorough understanding of software development cycle and agile practices.
• Architect, design & develop automation to reduce toil, improve recoverability, availability, latency & scalability of supported applications.
• Establish Engineering core practices, team vision & strategic roadmap driven by OKRs.
• Work directly with engineering leadership to iteratively deliver reliability improvements.
• Work in cross group teams on integration and migration solutions involving multi-cloud services.
• Provide subject matter expertise in troubleshooting issues impacting the performance, security, efficiency and reliability of cloud based services.
• Mentor and coach engineers to be curious and effective at discovering and solving technical challenges.
• Establish best in the industry incident management practices & lead the engineers to proactively identify stability risks & work with engineering leadership to establish appropriate mitigation plans.
• Recognize, validate & evangelize emerging technologies, architecture & reliability engineering best practices that align with business objectives

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
• Min 9 years of experience in Technology/Software engineering. Back end tech -JAVA, J2EE, NoSQL/SQL Datastore, Spring Boot, Cloud , Kubernetes , Docker.
• 4 years of experience in managing projects, people and stakeholders
• 2 years of experience working closely with senior leadership
• Must have strong Technology experience in Java/J2EE ,JPA, Webservices(REST,SOAP) etc.
• Developed applications using REST APIs with JSON payloads.
• Domain driven design or micro services architecture.
• Experience in building highly secure APIs and web applications.
• In depth understanding of Java Design patterns.
• Experience working with popular frameworks like Spring,Helidon etc.
• Must have hands-on development experience in design and build of responsive UI using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript .
• Expert skills in use of various JavaScript libraries like RequireJS, NodeJS packages, jQuery and jQuery UI etc.
• Experience using JSON payloads and REST APIs.

Additional preferences

• Experience of working with Weblogic/Tomcat/JBoss application servers, Oracle database.
• Good understanding of DevOps and automation concepts and experience of working in Agile projects.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with various project stakeholders.
• Strong Interpersonal skills with ability to maintaining good working relationships with customer or with Internal stakeholders.

Career Level - IC4