Principal Software Engineer

Overview

Principal Software Engineer at Esko, a Veralto company, responsible for technical strategy, organization-wide architecture, and multiplying the effectiveness of engineering teams rather than only writing individual code.

What you'll do

• Design complex, scalable systems and define long-term technical roadmaps that span multiple teams or departments.
• Act as a force multiplier by unblocking teams, resolving deep ambiguities, and establishing coding and testing standards.
• Coach senior and junior engineers to raise the technical capability of the organization.
• Bridge the gap between technical execution and business goals by consulting with stakeholders and upper management.
• Build and maintain advanced software applications following industry standards.
• Implement security best practices for web applications throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Design software architecture and provide technical guidance to the Backend Development Team.
• Explore and implement the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, analyse user needs, and translate them into technical solutions.
• Write and maintain technical documentation, including design documents, user manuals, and release notes.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging activities to ensure software quality and performance.
• Research and stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, tools, algorithms, and best practices in software development.
• Ensure compliance with software development processes, standards, and security protocols.
• Be a subject matter expert in all layers of the product technical stack.
• Provide clear inputs and plan for technical debt in related products and take it to completion.
• Focus on organizational business needs and not just technology aspects.
• Drive critical organizational initiatives on innovation and strategic objectives.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for software enhancements and new products.
• Develop software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases and Internet-related tools.
• Determine hardware compatibility and/or influence hardware design.
• Develop software applications, user interfaces, databases and embedded software.
• Consider software architecture to include networked applications and interactions within a system.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in software development with expertise in programming languages Java and JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, design patterns, system architecture, and industry best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers, provide technical leadership, and drive best engineering practices within the team.
• Substantial experience implementing algorithms, ideally optimization problems or other challenging problem domains involving some amount of non-determinism.
• Strong experience designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs, including secure, scalable, and well-documented services.
• Proven expertise in Spring Framework, including Spring Boot, and JavaScript Framework, for building enterprise-grade, microservices-based, and cloud-ready applications.
• Good knowledge of and hands-on experience with C++.
• Good knowledge of and hands-on experience with AI integration across the SDLC.
• Good knowledge of software development methodologies, design patterns, and best practices.
• Experience with AWS Kibana, Elasticsearch, Lambda, S3, and EC2.
• Experience with modern web development frameworks and libraries such as React, Marionette, or similar JavaScript frameworks.
• Strong understanding of database design and development with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with Agile and DevOps tools such as JIRA, GitHub, or similar tooling.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills, with a proactive, self-initiated approach to learning new technologies.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, including ability to understand advanced technical documentation.
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, APIs, frameworks, and tools.
• Flexibility and willingness to work across multiple technology stacks; a technology-agnostic mindset is a strong advantage.

Nice to have

• AI/ML knowledge (highly desirable and considered an added value).
• Direct experience with AWS Kibana, Elasticsearch, Lambda, S3, and EC2.
• A technical mindset with great attention to detail.
• Relates well to a wide spectrum of people across multi-geographic scrum teams and embraces cross-cultural agility.
• Flexible, willing to go the extra mile while being an agile and fast learner.
• Result oriented with strong self-management skills.
• Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment.
• Able to stay calm, friendly, a team player, and demonstrate good composure when handling complicated problems.
• High level of ownership.
• Strong algorithmic and analytical skills and self-initiative to learn new methodologies and techniques.
• Effective and clear communicator, asking the right questions, actively listening, and collecting the right inputs.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Reports to the Engineering Manager.