Principal Software Engineer

Description:

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement concise, modular, cohesive, frontend and backend services in a distributed system context that are resilient, efficient, and reliable.
• Ensure automated tests are highly effective in terms of software quality, refactor flexibility, and integration/delivery speed.
• Concurrent and asynchronous software design/development.
• Advanced asynchronous and resilient network communications design and implementation.
• Software development on complex, but potentially irreducible algorithms or combinatorials.
• Find ways to reduce/decompose complex software components along appropriate boundaries.
• When apparently irreducible functionality is encountered and resists beneficial decomposition, find ways to simplify through quantization.

Responsibilities (cont.):

• Extensive usage of all aspects of observability systems from experienced instrumentation of code to well-designed queries, dashboards, and alerts.
• Data driven optimization of latency, compute, memory, storage, and network traffic.
• Maintain awareness of production system performance, errors, and code usage.
• Communicate with clarity with diagrams, documentation, and presentations to other developers, dev teams, SREs, and management.
• Optimize build, deployment, and IaC provisioning pipelines.
• Rigorous analysis of escaped defects to determine corrective actions with depth of insight.
• Communicate clearly via software architecture, embedded docs, or o11y.
• Design and develop defensively to maintain or increase security going beyond OWASP and zero trust patterns by truly understanding the area of the system being worked on.
• Rigorous and proficient review and clear feedback on pull requests by team members.
• Keep up with relevant technologies, techniques, tools, and patterns.
• Ensure the software is as simple as possible, but not simpler.
• Build software with people. Product managers, other developers, SREs, junior engineers, senior engineers, and offshore. Construct software that matters!
• Constantly address technical debt. Shine a light on it, even when it hurts.
• Participate in the planning of technical engineering and product roadmaps.
• Plan, lead, or manage projects when called upon to do so while remaining hands on.

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Commitment to your software development, the products you work on, and the firm.
• 6-15+ years of experience working in full stack distributed systems.
• Experience meeting secure coding standards and willing to participate in financial systems security practices.
• Ability to explain complex topics to managers/directors, program/product managers