Principal Engineer is a key leadership role within the engineering team, responsible for overseeing and guiding complex technical projects, driving innovation, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software products. This role involves a combination of hands-on technical work, strategic planning, and team mentorship.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Prepare technical design specifications based on functional requirements and analysis documents.

- Review functional requirements, analysis, and design documents and provide feedback.

- Implement, test, maintain and support software, based on technical design specifications.

- Improve system quality by identifying issues and common patterns and developing standard operating procedures.

- Enhance applications by identifying opportunities for improvement, making recommendations, and designing and implementing systems.

- Maintain and improve existing codebases and peer review code changes.

- Liason with colleagues to implement technical designs.

- Investigate and use new technologies where relevant.

- Assist customer support with technical problems and questions.

- Participate in architecture and code reviews.

Technical Stack & Requirements:

- 10+ years of experience developing systems/software for large business environments.

- Strong OOD and SOA principles, with ability to implement them in a language of choice (Java preferable).

- Strong experience leading architecture, design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services.

- Experience working with AWS and/or Azure SaaS infrastructure and CI/CD DevOps technologies.

- Understanding of unit testing, test driven development, functional testing, and performance testing.

- Knowledge of database systems (SQL, NoSQL) and data architecture.

- Proven experience leading cloud, DevOps, or AI modernization initiatives.

- Strong understanding of LLMs, automation, and engineering toolchains.

- Ability to translate AI innovation into business and productivity impact.

- Experience building front end with React is a big plus.

- Experience working and integrating with Event Bus like Pulsar is a big plus.

- Experience working and integrating with cloud based big data solutions like Snowflake is a big plus.