Principal Back-end Engineer (Hybrid)
Roberts Recruiting•Cambridge, MA
•Hybrid
About The Position
We are seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to help drive forward our product initiatives within our Path™ platform. Working as an integral leader within the development team, the engineer will head all aspects of developing our platform services, APIs, and product capabilities; as well as provide thought leadership, upskilling of less senior engineers, and taking part in defining strategic linkages across the company’s products.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in full-stack development
- Great communication skills
- End-to-end understanding of modern application architectures
- Big picture orientation with strong attention to detail
- Comfort in dealing with highly abstract concepts and complex architectures is critical for this particular role
- Experience with object-oriented development
- Proficiency in unit and functional testing
- Experience with RESTful API development and integration
- Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring/DropWizard/etc.
- Experience with Docker based microservice architectures
- Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or equivalent RDBMS
- Experience with source repositories (git/Bitbucket)
Nice To Haves
- Experience with functional programming
- Experience with Kotlin/alternate JVM languages
Responsibilities
- Lead the platform services engineering team as a technical authority
- Develop and maintain APIs and services for use within our™ Platform
- Collaborate with other development teams and the product owner to define and estimate business requirements and then translate these into specific software tasks
- Hands-on software development in various projects and (minimally JVM) languages.
- Provide exemplary code, structure, design, etc. for the platform services team to use as guidelines
- Document designs, architecture, code
- Conduct code reviews
- Head technical talks on a variety of issues
- Design and implement performant, scalable, and maintainable solutions
- Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products developed and completed with best-in-class software development
- Coach and mentor members of your team through the variety of interpersonal, technological, and methodological challenges they face day-to-day
- Coordinate a distributed team across multiple time zones
Benefits
- collaborative environment
- continuous learning and discovery
- setting goals that matter
- building meaningful products
- positively impacting carbon reduction and climate change
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
