Responsibilities:
What You'll do
As a Lead Software Engineer at Principal Financial Group, you will be at the forefront of crafting innovative and high-performance software solutions. Your role will involve crafting, developing, and implementing software that drives our products. You will work in close collaboration with our product development team to understand user needs and translate them into flawless technical specifications. Ensuring our software products are scalable, reliable, and efficient will be key to your success.
You'll have opportunity to:
Designing and implementing cloud applications using AWS services, Typescript and Java- Work with architect for scalable and high performance solutions that meet business requirements.
- Collaborate closely with product manager, architects and engineers.
- Provide technical guidance and fostering culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Implement engineering best practices related to design, coding standards and deployment process.
- Innovation and technical initiatives to improve system reliability, performance and scalability.
Qualifications:
Who You are:
Talented experienced Lead Software Engineer with expertise in AWS cloud services, Typescript and Java development for our engineering team.
Experience: 7 to 9 years
Education: Graduate - Bachelors degree (Engineering)
Mandatory Skills:
- 7+ years of software development experiences with focus on AWS cloud development and distributed applications development with Java & J2EE.
- 2+ years of experience in AWS development using typescript. If not worked on typescript, willing to learn typescript because as per Principal standards typescript is the preferred language for AWS development.
- Hands on experience designing and deploying applications on AWS cloud infrastructure (e.g EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Fargate etc)
- Hands on experience in Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring boot development and good understanding of serverless computing.
- Experience with REST API and Java Shared Libraries.
Good to have:
- AWS Certified Developer or AWS certified solutions architect is plus.
Additional Skills:
Strong knowledge on Java Development/Versioning Tools like RAD/Git/Maven.- Installation, Configuration and Integration of tools for creating the required development environment.
- Experience on handling Install failures, install updates, supporting local issues is a plus.
- Understanding of application server technology.
- Exposure to Atlassian Tools like JIRA/Confluence.
- Good English communication and exposure to global working environment.
- Abilities like problem solving, analytical, time management, planning & decision making, self-motivated, facilitate collaborate
- Develop strong understanding of the business.
- Develop and support decision making , good Business communication skills across multiple levels.
- Ability to provide direction and guidance to junior team members.
- Consistently raises the bar by going beyond day-to-day performance expectations.
- Develop planning/organizational, problem-solving, analytical, time management, and decision making skills.
Additional Information:
Our Engineering Culture:
In our Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we've nurtured a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we collaborate closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs. Collaboration is ingrained into every aspect of our work – from the products we develop to the world-class service we offer. We are motivated by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is crucial to crafting the finest products and experiences for our customers. Come join us and become a part of a highly ambitious team dedicated to delivering impeccable solutions!
