Principal Software Engineer

Empower is committed to transforming financial lives by providing a flexible work environment and celebrating internal mobility. The Principal Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for architecting and implementing complex software solutions while mentoring team members and driving technical excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical feasibility and evaluation of the product based on the business needs
• Provide technical leadership to the team in design finalization, code reviews, and resolving production support and maintenance issues
• Lead design and implementation of critical software components and systems
• Mentor technical members of the team
• Contribute to the development of coding standards, best practices, and guidelines
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and execute the technical roadmap
• Stay informed about emerging technologies and industry trends to drive technical innovation
• Hands-on role which involves coding on day-to-day basis
• Lead domain modelling designs
• Responsible for production on-call duties like any other team member
• Produce high quality design documentation

Requirements:

• 7+ years of expertise in Java, Spring boot microservices and Cloud Native technologies or similar (including 2+ years in a lead or principal capacity)
• Designed, developed, and maintained a complex software solution involving multiple stakeholders
• Proficient in AWS/EKS and SQL/NOSQL platforms
• Deep knowledge and understanding of Cloud based development tools and processes
• Proven experience in designing critical applications that interact with several other systems internally and externally
• Deep knowledge and understanding of software development process in a distributed multi geography team environment
• Good hands-on experience in domain driven modeling and API development
• Good working knowledge of SRE practices and responsibilities
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills including written and oral
• Proven team player who can mentor other technical members of the team
• Preferred knowledge of service mesh technologies like Istio/Envoy
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Architecture level cloud or product certifications