Principal Software Engineer

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer

Location:Remote

Candidates for the Principal Software Engineer should have 10-15 years of experience in Technical Applications including Java and Webservices Development with hands-on experience leading the development of projects along with having expertise in mentoring and tracking the performance of team members.

Job Duties:

• Debug the critical problems which arise in production and execute effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications/systems
• Lead continuous learning and process improvement activities to improve design and overall engineering practices
• Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions
• Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify impact of a change across multiple applications/systems
• Design and develop software and improve existing code to make it more efficient to detect bugs in the code (Sr. Staff)
• Write unit-tests and validate your software against acceptance criteria (Sr. Staff)
• Evolve and transform the design and architecture of applications towards leading edge technologies and practices (Sr. Staff)
• Author, apply and advocate for team coding, documenting and testing standards (Sr. Staff)
• Learn the business process domain to better support the business and align technologies with the business process (Sr. Staff)
• Lead code reviews and communicate application changes (Sr. Staff)
• Document code and projects so others can easily understand, maintain and support (Sr. Staff)
• Debug the critical problems which arise in production and execute effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications/systems
• Read, write and review design documents (Sr. Staff)
• Contribute to team's sprint commitments and actively participate in our Agile practices, including recommendations for process improvement (Sr. Staff)

The following items detail how you will be success in this role:

• Develops solutions using standards and best practices.
• Understand the rationale behind and how changes impact the enterprise and/or applications and across the technical/business ecosystem.
• Deep understanding of the technical domain, including the system architecture, design and data of the systems they support and systems to which it interfaces.

Key Must Have’s:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems
• 10+ years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience
• Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of software engineering talent across multiple software systems and applications
• Extensive experience in data modeling, design and messaging
• Experience working on mission-critical enterprise class applications
• Demonstrated ability to work with business partners, cross functional team members and coach and mentor experienced team members
• Expert understanding and use of multiple object-oriented programming languages and design patterns such as Java
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile/SCRUM and Waterfall (Sr. Staff)

Preferred:

• Advanced understanding of IDEs, have the ability to navigate through them quickly and leverage advanced features to improve your performance (Sr. Staff)
• In-depth usage and creation of application programming interfaces (API) and frameworks in their particular field: JSON, Rest/SOAP based Web Services, JUnit, Jenkins and Bitbucket preferred (Sr. Staff)
• Experience in API security, analytics, throttling, caching, logging, request and response modifications (Sr. Staff)
• Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger or similar tools desirable (Sr. Staff)
• Ability to use DDL to create database objects and relationships, construct advanced queries, and optimize query performance (Sr. Staff)
• Financial services or FinTech industry experience

Vital Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action employer. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits promotions, training, termination or any other condition of employment or career development. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, veteran status, disability status or any other legally protected status.