Principal Software Engineer - Remote

Duck Creek Technologies is an intelligent solutions provider redefining the future of the property and casualty insurance industry. The Principal Software Engineer will guide the technical vision for multiple projects, contribute to key platform components, and mentor software engineers while ensuring high-quality technical solutions across various domains.

Responsibilities:

• Regular interactions with technical leads to ensure proper strategy/execution
• Inform technical leaders of any impediments or technical limitations encountered
• Participate in hiring practices/interviews
• Acts as the technical lead in one or more of the following ways: For one or more project teams as the primary individual responsible for code and technical solution quality
• Designs, codes, and delivers solutions to production for high-complexity Agile stories, independently across multiple domain or platform areas
• Creates a conceptual design/architecture for large scale software solutions in collaboration with architects
• Provides guidance and mentoring to software engineers to help them grow
• Debugs and resolves high complexity software bugs or issues, working independently, and finds the real root cause and provides a fix without collateral damage
• Writes automated unit and integration-level tests under own direction
• Follows development standards and effectively demonstrates technical solutions to other developers in code reviews
• Perform other related duties and activities as required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree, or higher education level, or its foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Information Sciences, and/or related field
• Total Work Experience: 7+ years (software development), 5+ years of strategic leadership experience
• Expert of scalable, resilient, modern, cloud-native microservice development with Java, .NET, Python, or Typescript
• Expert in distributed software patterns, such as DDD, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architecture
• Expert in Object-oriented design, Java or .NET development
• Expert with CI/CD to deliver software enhancements to customers with full automation
• Experience in Cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including Serverless
• Experience with Terraform/Ansible or other IaC platforms
• Experience with CQRS, event-driven architecture, and Kafka
• Experience building monitoring, alerting, and observability for maintaining high customer SLAs for SaaS delivered products
• Experience decomposing monolithic applications using Domain-Driven Design
• Excels in the ability to lead, teach, and guide modern software-development practices across Product Development, operating independently with guidance