Principal Software Engineer

Fullsight•Warrendale, PA

About The Position

SAE Industry Technologies Consortia (SAE ITC), Performance Review Institute (PRI) and SAE International (SAE), deliver shared solutions to industry's common challenges. Join us and create a higher standard for a better world. Serves as a technical expert, lead and architect on large and complex projects. Responsible for designing, developing, testing, implementing, and maintaining complex web-based application systems, such as user interface, e-commerce applications, and integrations. Troubleshoots and solves the complicated software issues. Researches technical problems and suggests improvements for web applications. Analyzes and integrates new web products and technologies with existing web applications to improve the application functionality. Requires thorough understanding of assigned business applications and system infrastructure.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, and related field OR Associates Degree with 8+ years of expereience
8 years of application development using a defined modern framework including Angular and Spring
4 years experience using and architecting message based distrubted systems
3 years practical experience using big data solutions such as MongoDB and Elastic
Strong desire to learn and try new approaches
Strong knowledge of development architectures, frameworks and tools
Strong attention to quality, details, root cause problem solving, and follow-up
Strong ownership of overall team deliverables
Data modeling/schema, data structure and network systems
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Strong sense of urgency in support and maintenance, including both internal and external customer interactions
Ability to deliver working solutions on time and understanding risk
Experience with developing and running unit tests
Strong experience in understanding, use and enforcement of Engineering best practices, Highly Available systems, appropriate levels of monitoring, logging and alerting.
Understanding of optimal use of source control, build and depyment, including rollback strategies.

Nice To Haves

5+ years Agile Development Methodology
2+ years development team leadership experience, with responsibilities for design, development, and quality of the team deliverables
Knowledge of one or more cloud platform services, such as AWS
Enterprise development and or commercial software development experience

Responsibilities

Leads the team as a high level technical expert in design, development, coding, testing, and debugging new software or significant enhancements to existing software.
Defines system architecture, design and documentation.
Defines and adheres to SAE International development standards, including naming conventions, source code control processes, security protocols and code deployment processes.
Manages priorities on multiple assigned projects.
Assists with project planning by providing estimates, task definitions and progress updates throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) within established methodology.
Interacts directly with customers on requested improvements and enhancements.
Assists in training and mentoring less experienced developer team members.
Manages and performs code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and tools.
Develop robust architectures that adhere to Engineering best practices and balance TTM vs Risk
Act as the advocate and voice of rigor and process to the team and the stakeholders.
Show and encourage the learning organization concept, provide and receive feedback well and model the continuous improvement model.