# Principal Software Engineer

Role Overview: We are looking for a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer / Software Engineering Manager to join our engineering team and build scalable fintech products from scratch. This is a hands-on Individual Contributor (IC) role with ownership of architecture, development, scalability, and security, while also mentoring a small engineering team. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience building high-throughput, low-latency financial applications, preferably in the fintech, banking, or payments domain. Candidates with strong expertise in Java & Spring Boot or Node.js (Golang is an added advantage) will be considered. Key Responsibilities: - Own the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for mission-critical fintech and payment platforms. - Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance applications from scratch. - Build systems capable of handling high-volume, low-latency transactions. - Design robust microservices and distributed system architectures. - Take complete ownership of software architecture, coding, deployment, and production support. - Work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate th

- **Id**: 1280229
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/skima-ai-principal-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mumbai, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-20T04:47:37Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-08-20T04:47:37Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 83
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3475
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Software, HR & Recruiting AI, Recruiting Software & ATS

## Company

- **Id**: 2474059
- **Name**: Skima AI
- **Domain**: skima.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/skima-ai>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 20000
- **Max usd**: 51000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 74

## Technologies

- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Scrum** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 83

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T02:00:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.545
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 83
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:83, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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