Principal Engineer

The Principal Engineer is a full stack senior developer with experience leading a scrum team.  This role is responsible for leading a scrum team in the design and development of software solutions to build and optimize highly scalable, web based multitenant applications used by educational associations and institutions of higher learning including numerous colleges and universities. 

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands on guidance and mentorship to a team of front-end and back-end developers.
• Enjoy coaching, mentoring and guiding peer developers and QA engineers and working collaboratively with product and program managers, DevOps and other technical leaders.
• Design and develop enterprise grade, high volume web and data applications platforms and state of the art technical solutions leveraging variety of technologies in public cloud such as GCP and AWS
• Participate in design discussions and solution design sessions with product management and software development teams to shape new product features and platform capabilities.
• Provide support to critical production issues and infrastructure needs.
• Develop and support APIs and business logic leveraging node.js, GraphQL, Kubernetes, RabitMQ
• Develop and support web user interfaces using JavaScript Frameworks such as Angular, React.
• Contribute to evaluation, prototyping and selection of software solutions that will improve our technology infrastructure.
• Make recommendations to enhance performance and scalability of our flagship products.
• Develop unit tests and API integration tests to maximize code coverage in accordance with the software test pyramid.
• Apply Test Driven Development practices and software quality measurement tools to the improve quality of delivered software.
• Foster and support a culture of innovation and excellence in the engineering organization

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering or an IT related discipline, or its equivalent plus 3 years of related experience. Alternatively, will accept a bachelor’s degree plus 6 years related experience, in lieu of a master’s degree.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience, including at least 5 years working in an Agile scrum team
• Prior experience building enterprise scale consumer facing applications
• 5+ years working with Node.js
• 3+ years working with Google Cloud
• 4+ years working with relational database systems (e.g., MySql or PostgreSQL) and in-memory key-value databases (e.g., Redis) and NoSQL database such as Google BigQuery
• 2+ years designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous deployment) processes using tools such as Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, and/or GitHub actions
• Working experience with OOP, SOA, microservices, and design patterns
• Experience building RESTful APIs and GraphQL based APIs
• Experience working with multiple tech stacks, and ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Comfortable with Linux systems and bash command line
• Proficient with tools such as git, npm, Docker
• Good knowledge of AJAX, JSON, HTML and CSS