As our Principal Engineer (Frontend), you'll be responsible for supporting end to end delivery during a launch leveraging the Platform as a baseline and tailoring the same to client experience, enhancing the existing ones as well as supporting them in production. You will also be responsible for building reusable libraries or technology platforms that address multiple use cases. You will work towards delivering specific milestones and objectives in a very dynamic environment.
Job Responsibilities
Technical Design and Development:
- Collaborate closely with Engineers to devise the best technical strategies and execute platform enhancements.
- Own the delivery of timelines, ensuring high-quality results.
- Establish software development best practices and encourage team adoption.
Stakeholder Collaboration:
- Work with non-technical stakeholders (Product Managers, Designers, Marketing, Operations) to align on business objectives.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
Mentoring and Leadership:
- Mentor a team of engineers, providing guidance and support.
- Foster a culture of excellence and problem-solving within the team.
Software Availability and Enhancement:
- Ensure functional availability and enhance products based on requirements.
- Manage cloud-based services, web applications, and RESTful web services.
Engineering Excellence:
- Own the engineering excellence and operational readiness of services, meeting SLAs and SLOs.
- Drive service quality, security, scalability, and other performance aspects.
- Dive deep into issues, providing both reactive and long-term solutions.
Support and Mentorship:
- Assist other Support Engineers on complex RCA issues.
- Provide technical mentoring and guidance to fellow engineers.
- Offer L3 engineering support.
Job Requirements
Design and Architecture:
- Strong experience in designing highly scalable and available products.
- Proficiency in the full SDLC, from analysis to post-production support.
Server Side Frameworks:
- Strong proficiency in at least one server-side framework in order of priority (Java/Spring Boot, Go Lang).
Database Knowledge:
- Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases (eg, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).
- Preferred experience in Elasticsearch and Kibana (ELK Stack).
Messaging Systems:
- Well versed with messaging systems like RabbitMQ.
Multi-Tasking and Independence:
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks effectively.
- Willingness to support off-hours.
Code Quality and Documentation:
- Program at a system level and maintain scalable, extensible code.
- Methodical in keeping documentation up to date.
Quality and Clean Coding:
- Metric-driven mindset and a commitment to clean coding practices.
- Experience with language specific test cases
Product Development:
- Preferred experience in product development.
Microservices and Front-End:
- Preferred 12+ years experience in at least one modern web front-end development framework / App Development.
- Proficiency in at least one backend framework or tech stack such as Java or Golang will be an added advantage.
Third Party Integrations:
- Proficiency of different communication protocols (HTTP(S), TCP, FTP etc), able to read through different data transfer protocols like SOAP or JSON.
- Basic knowledge of various authentication and authorization mechanisms to easen the third party integration process
