Principal Software Engineer

About the Role:

An opportunity to revolutionize the restaurant industry. Here, at Rebel Foods, we are using technology and automation to disrupt the traditional food industry. We are focused on building an operating system for Cloud Kitchens - using the most innovative technologies - to provide the best food experiences for our customers.

You will enjoy working with us, if:

• You are passionate about solving customer problems using people, processes and technology You are an engineer at heart, obsessed with high quality software

You have a flair for good technical and organizational desi

• You are unafraid of making bold decisions to eliminate inefficiencies and improving velocity of software development
• You are an owner and take responsibility for outputs and outcomes
• You are willing to dive deep to solve complex software issues
• You are a teacher and mentor

Our technology ecosystem:

Languages: Java, Typescript, Javascript

• Frameworks and environments: Spring Boot, NodeJS, ExpressJS

Databases: AWS Aurora MySQL, MongoDB

• Cloud: AWS
• Microservices, Service Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, Caching, Messaging, Logging, Monitoring and Alerting
• CI/CD and DevOps

Bitbucket, Jira

You will mostly spend time on the following:

• Leading a team of software engineers; owning and developing the roadmap to support your long term vision for the services and conducting tactical execution at the same time
• Hiring, mentoring and coaching your direct reports to be the best they can be, both in their current roles and in their careers
• Liaising with product, business and leadership teams to ensure business priorities are met

Continuously improving management and engineering processes. Planning, estimating projects and tasks and ensuring software development best practices are being followed

• Working closely with engineers on day to day activities, including writing, reviewing and troubleshooting code

Owning services, and managing ongoing features, fixes, and daily operations of service

Teaching and mentoring team members

We're excited about you if you have:

6 to 9 years of experience in software development, including experience building microservices and distributed systems

Built and led high-performing engineering teams

Experience working with complex, high-traffic, and consumer-facing distribu platforms

Proven engineering knowledge and experience

The ability to operate at a managerial level as well as diving deep and getting your hands dirty when required

Experience in establishing software development processes and practices; A track record of good project planning and execution

Good communication skills, both in person and via the keyboard

Made decisions that impacted technical design, development and planning for one or more projects/programs that impacted multiple teams or functions.

Good programming skills in one or more languages: Java, Typescript, Javascript, C#, C++

Experience working in Cloud environments: AWS or Azure or GCP

Experience building secure, configurable, observable servic

Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

The ability to mentor and teach junior and senior engineers

The ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering, product and business teams