Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join G-P, a leading SaaS-based Global Growth Platform™, as a Principal Software Engineer and make a global impact. You will be a hands-on individual contributor leading a small team. Responsibilities include providing technical leadership, driving development activities, collaborating with stakeholders, designing and developing cloud-enabled products, mentoring engineers, advocating agile methodologies, translating requirements into sprint stories, building prototypes, and contributing to SDLC and tech stack evolution. The ideal candidate possesses extensive SaaS development experience in distributed teams, full-stack web application development expertise (Typescript, Node.js, React, Java, APIs, modern databases), knowledge of cloud architectures (AWS preferred), and a B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent. Experience in a startup or high-growth environment is desirable. Background checks are required.

Requirements

• Extensive experience of developing SaaS enterprise software in distributed teams
• Experience developing & integrating full-stack web applications using modern frameworks, with knowledge in most or all of the following; Typescript, Node.js, React, Java, APIs, modern databases
• Knowledge of modern cloud architectures and technologies. (ideally AWS)
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership in the development team
• Drive the implementation of development activities including owning technical design and project execution for the team to meet business goals
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to understand their requirements, negotiate phased release plans and define user story acceptance criteria that meet evolving customer needs
• Design and develop our cloud-enabled products, working on all parts of the code stack as we utilize modern frameworks and technologies
• Mentor Software Engineers to allow for knowledge development through advice, coaching and training opportunities
• Advocate and evangelize modern agile methodologies and best practices
• Take a lead role in translating requirements to sprint stories and executing on them
• Build quick prototypes to refine concepts, then turn them into real production-quality features
• Contribute to the evolution of the SDLC and the tech stack

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in a startup or high-growth environment is desirable