Job Description:

The Principal Software Engineer is a senior technical leader, responsible for driving technology innovation and excellence. This role is pivotal in designing, building, and delivering industry-leading solutions while continuously improving processes, products, and team capabilities.

Core Responsibilities:

• Ensure adherence to the Software Development Lifecycle and Agile frameworks.
• Develop and maintain software processes, standards, and best practices for high-quality software delivery.
• Promote engineering excellence using tools, control gates, and peer reviews to improve design, productivity, and quality.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to enhance competitive differentiation and strengthen product technology.
• Optimize the engineering lifecycle through knowledge management and continuous learning.
• Mentor and guide engineers, assist with technical challenges, and foster a high-performance culture.
• Support the reduction of technical debt and contribute to technical roadmaps, architecture documentation, and platform validation.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Take technical responsibility across all stages of software development.
• Drive software construction activities using appropriate methods, tools, and techniques.
• Measure and monitor adherence to software construction standards, including security.

Requirements:

• Education:
  • Technical graduation in engineering, computer science, or related fields.
  • Preferred post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects or an MBA in Systems.
• Experience:
  • Engineering development or configuration experience in a Product SaaS organization.
  • Led the conceptualization and development of a portfolio of SaaS-based products.

Professional Skills:

• Agile methodologies (Scrum)
• Efficiency improvement, configuration management, release readiness
• Documentation/technical writing, process/data/system engineering
• Problem-solving, lifecycle management, analytical skills

Personal Skills:

• Emotional intelligence, empathy, motivation, collaboration
• Active listening, continuous learning, creative thinking
• Resilience, ownership, critical thinking, time management
• Decision-making, innovative thinking

Technical Skills (Expert Level):

• Full Stack development, REST Services, Database Design
• Responsive web design, Dependency Injection, Data access and persistence
• ORM frameworks, Unit and integration testing, Web accessibility standards
• Web security principles, SAST and DAST tools, Content Management Systems
• Message queuing systems, Application architecture, Containers, Microservices
• Source code control, Continuous Integration/Deployment, HTML5, CSS3
• JavaScript, Angular, TypeScript, Asp.Net, .Net Core, C#
• WCF, Web Api, Windows Services, Dapper, Entity Framework
• xUnit, Fluent Assertions, LINQ & Lambda, PowerShell
• RabbitMQ, OAuth, Identity Server, SQL, Azure Cloud Platform, AWS
• Azure DevOps, Visual Studio

Domain Skills (Advanced Level):

• Experience in Pensions and Financial Services