Principal Software Engineer, Mobile, React

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:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience.
• A Bachelor’s Degree is required, preferred degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.
• 3+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems. 
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• Full stack engineering experience: React / ReactNative FrontEnd frameworks + Java (with Focus on Front End -- candidate will ideally be 80% Front End, 20% Back end.
• Experience with cloud such as Azure, Google Cloud, or 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. 

Qualities

• Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized.
• Ability to run a large team of software engineers.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities.
• Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities.
• Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization.
• Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units and ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level.