Principal Software Engineer

This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll design critical systems, guide implementation, mentor senior engineers, and implement modern engineering practices that result in resilient, scalable, and secure platforms. The ideal candidate is an expert in OOP, design patterns, RESTful APIs, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and databases, with a strong track record of solution/technical architecture and delivery governance.

Must-Have

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 3–5+ years as a Principal/Staff Engineer or Software Architect for large-scale systems.
• Deep expertise in OOP and design patterns; strong command of clean architecture and domain-driven design (DDD).
• Proven design and delivery of RESTful APIs at scale with strong API governance.
• Hands-on with CI/CD and DevOps practices, including automated testing, security scanning, and release strategies.
• Cloud architecture experience on Azure/AWS (multi-region, high availability, cost optimization).
• Strong database fundamentals (modeling, transactions, performance, replication) across SQL and NoSQL.
• Proficiency in at least two of: C#/.NET, Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Go.
• Experience with containers/Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform), and observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK).

Nice-to-Have

• Event-driven architectures, streaming (Kafka), CQRS, and caching strategies.
• Experience with zero-downtime migrations, monolith decomposition, or platform engineering (internal developer platforms).
• Performance engineering (load testing, capacity planning, flame graphs/profiling).