Principal Software Engineer

About the position

As a Principal Software Engineer at Alex Lee, you deliver high performing, robust, scalable and maintainable software, and as needed, mentor other software engineers. You collaborate with cross-functional teams, document system designs, and report on project status. Continuous improvement and adoption of the best practices are essential to your success as a Principal software engineer. Your contributions enhance product performance while maintaining high standards.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Serves as a subject matter expert for your assigned component, providing mentorship and expertise to build knowledge and capabilities within engineering teams. Plays an active role in maintaining an inclusive and positive culture through active participation in team discourse, providing mentorship for junior team members and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Actively schedules and attends code reviews to maximize quality, security and maintainability of all software. Quickly identify and resolve complex technical issues and recommend and implement permanent robust solutions.
• Collaboration and Cross-Functional Teams: Partners with leverages cross-functional teams determine user requirements and drive project plans, releases, and overall development. Collaborates with peers across the organization on projects that turn opportunity into results.
• Documentation and Transparency: Documents system designs, processes, and architecture for transparency and future reference, complying with standards developed by architecture teams. Reports on project status, challenges, and results to stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement and Best Practices: Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while sharing knowledge with other engineers. Contribute to the continual improvement of your team's quality standards and engineering processes.

Requirements

• Requires either a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years software engineering experience including but not limited to the following technologies/skills.
• Proficiency in C# and SQL; knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML5, React is beneficial but not required.
• Familiarity with ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Entity Framework, Microservices, LINQ (proficient), REST APIs, Full Stack Applications, Azure DevOps & GIT, Azure CI/CD Pipelines, T-SQL, Relational Database Design/Development, Hangfire, Kendo UI, jQuery, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, etc.
• Multiple years of full-time experience with .NET Core 3 framework or higher.
• Experience with classic .NET is also valued.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies including Daily Standups/Scrums, Sprint Planning, Reviews & Retrospectives, and daily peer code reviews.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong self-motivation and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to context switch between multiple concurrent projects.
• Ability to quickly assess a need or problem and assign responsibility and priority.
• Self-sufficiency and excitement for working in a fast paced, result-driven environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Azure AD B2C Custom Policy Development
• Docker/Kubernetes experience
• AWS/Google Cloud Development Experience