Principal Software Engineer

Our Client operates in the Food Processing Industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has its branches spread to more than 200 countries, providing employment to more than 3,00,000 people all over the world. They fall in the Fortune 500 Companies. Their core business is to manufacture, market, distribute and sell consumer staple products.

Responsibilities

• Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core priorities
• Drive partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio
• Develop software development strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
• Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
• Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering
• Develop and expand DPS capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences
• Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
• Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
• 3+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• Expertise in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit , BackEnd MicroServices, Serverless Computing, Creating REST API’S
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React / ReactNative FrontEnd frameworks
• Full stack engineering experience
• Experience with Azure Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems
• Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services
• Deep knowledge of design patterns