Principal Software Engineer

Job description

Roles and Responsibility

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our engineering team dedicated to enhancing the capabilities of our billing payment platform and increasing the agility with which we deliver new functionality. As a technical leader on this team, you'll help to kickstart new ideas and capabilities as well as collaborate with other teams on high impact and highly visible initiatives. Our microservice architecture, built on top of cloud technologies including AWS and Kubernetes, is designed to deliver a comprehensive billing platform to our partners.

What you'll do:

In this role, you'll contribute to a variety of projects and capabilities across our Insight Platform. You'll set the technical direction of our software and architecture through direct hands-on development. And you'll help grow other software engineers through technical mentorship and guidance.

You will:

• Design effective, scalable architectures on top of cloud technologies such as AWS and Kubernetes
• Mentor other software engineers, including actively participating in peer code and architecture review
• Participate in all parts of the development lifecycle from design to coding to deployment to maintenance and operations
• Kickstart new ideas, build proof of concepts and jumpstart newly funded projects
• Demonstrate ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Embed with other engineering teams on challenging initiatives and time sensitive projects
• Collaborate with other engineering teams on challenging initiatives and time sensitive projects

Qualifications and traits

Education and Experience

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 9+ years of professional software development experience focused on payments and/or billing and
• customer accounts. Worked with worldwide payments, billing systems, PCI Compliance payment
• gateways.

Technical and Functional

• Extensive knowledge of micro service development using Spring, Spring Boot, Java - built on top of
• Kubernetes and public cloud computing such as AWS, Lambda, S3.
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, DB2 or Oracle) and NoSQL databases
• Experience with unit testing and test driven development

Technologies at Constant Contact

• Working on the Constant Contact platform provides our engineers with an opportunity to produce high impact work inside of our multifaceted platform (Email, Social, SMS, E-Commerce, CRM, Customer Data Platform, ML Based Recommendations Insights, and more). As a member of our team, youll be utilizing the latest technologies and frameworks (React/SPA, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, GraphQL, etc) and deploying code to our cloud-first microservice infrastructure (declarative CI/CD, GitOps managed kubernetes) with regular opportunities to level up your skills.
• Past experience of working with and integrating payment gateways and processors, online payment
• methods, and billing systems.
• Familiar with integrating Stripe / Plaid / PayPal / Adyen / Cybersource or similar systems along with PCI compliance.
• International software development and payments experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD, automated test and build tools ( Jenkins Gradle/Maven)
• Experience integrating with sales tax engines is a plus.
• Familiar with tools like Splunk, New relic or similar tools like datadog, elastic elk, amazon cloudwatch.
• Good to have - Experience with React, Backbone, Marionette or other front end frameworks.

Cultural

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Flexible attitude and willingness to frequently move between different teams, software architectures and priorities.
• Desire to collaborate with our other product teams to think strategically about how to solve problems.

Our team

• We focus on cross-functional team collaboration where engineers, product managers, and designers all work together to solve customer problems and build exciting features.
• We love new ideas and are eager to see what your experiences can bring to help influence our technical and product vision.
• Collaborate/Overlap with the teams in Eastern Standard Time (EST), USA.

Role: Technical Architect

Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting

Department: Engineering - Software & QA

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Category: Software Development

Education

UG: Any Graduate

PG: Any Postgraduate