Principal Engineer - Backend

Responsibilities:

• Co-lead end-to-end design and development efforts for high-volume, low-latency applications for real-time event-based systems.
• Lead and direct senior software engineers, define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, and determine areas of complexity and potential risks to the successful implementation of platform modules and features.
• Deliver a high-availability and high-performance platform using microservices architecture.
• Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in code, and devise solutions to production and non-production issues.
• Keep an eye out for open-source projects and technology trends that can be introduced in the products.
• Transform business functionalities and production specifications into technical requirements and low-level design.
• Be hands-on; adopt a practical approach to software and technology.
• Work with product management and other teams to build highly scalable products.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• 8 to 12 years of design and development experience in scalable and distributed enterprise applications using Java/J2EE, JPA, Spring framework and RESTful web services.
• Excellent coding skills in Java.
• Experience in managing, implementing and optimising big data stores such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch.
• Experience in deploying applications and using various managed services provided by cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Experience in front-end technologies HTML5 CSS3 jQuery, AngularJS, React and D3.js is preferred.
• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design.
• Proven ability to drive large-scale projects with a deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership.