General Summary:

The Principal Software Engineer I is responsible for developing high-quality, innovative, fully performing software in compliance with coding standards. This individual works in partnership with cross-functional teams to ensure that software deliverables, including designs, codes, and tests, are completed in a timely manner, while remaining aligned with industry and organizational standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides support to the Engineering teams, with a high attention to detail

•  Researches, analyzes, and documents findings

•  May coach and review the work of other team members

•  Designs, builds, and maintains large-scale production services, web applications, data pipelines, and streaming systems

•  Works on systems critical to company’s current and future operations

•  Debugs production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

•  Assists with improvement of organizational engineering standards, tooling, and processes

•  Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing, and certification of software

•  Evaluates codes to ensure validity, proper structure, alignment with industry standards, and compatibility with operating systems

•  Maintains an understanding of current technologies or programming practices through continuing education, reading or participation in professional conferences, workshops, or groups.

Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required: 

• Ability to manage projects and processes independently with limited supervision

•  Advanced knowledge of applicable work area • Ability to situationally adapt and understand new technology/processes as per business requirement

•  Knowledge of a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures

•  Ability to work constructively and independently under stress and pressure in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment

•  Ability to manage competing priorities while producing high quality work

•  Ability to interact positively and openly with colleagues and external business contacts, with strong verbal and written communication skills

•  Strong organization and time-management skills with the ability to meet reasonable deadlines

•  Strong knowledge of programming languages and software basics • Strong knowledge of relevant software development tools including version control, build processes, debuggers, and test frameworks

Educational/Vocational/Previous Experience Recommendations:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent business experience

• 5+ years of relevant experience

• Preferred: Experience in cloud-based CI/CD (CircleCI, GOCD, and Gitlab pipelines)

Working Conditions:

• Onsite/Hybrid/Remote depending on location

• 0-10% travel may be required