Solera - Principal Software Engineer - Java Technologies

Description :

Key Responsibilities :

- Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance across teams on design, development, and implementation.

- Integrate and leverage AI tools like Copilot and automation platforms to enhance product capabilities and engineering efficiency.

- Design and implement event-driven and queue-based systems using technologies like Kafka or RabbitMQ.

- Apply solid object-oriented principles and software design patterns to build clean, maintainable, and extensible systems.

- Champion best practices in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices-based architecture.

- Drive excellence in ORM frameworks (e.g., Hibernate, JPA) and deep expertise in RDBMS systems, especially PostgreSQL.

- Guide build and deployment processes using Gradle, CI/CD pipelines, and automated quality checks.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment between technical strategy and product goals.

- Conduct architectural reviews, lead PoCs, and evaluate emerging technologies to meet evolving business needs.

- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering continuous improvement and skill development across the team.

- Contribute to technical decision-making, risk mitigation, and delivery assurance across multiple projects.

Key Job Functions/Requirements :

- Hands-on experience with construction of complex engineering solutions and knowledge of software development methodologies

- Deep dive on large-scale SaaS products and be prepared to assist architecture with setting the vision, organizing and evolving the code-base for the entire product

- Collaborate and communicate effectively with product, infrastructure, DevOps, architecture, and engineering to guide an initiative's technical direction

- Along with Architecture, meet one on one with tech leads to provide guidance and ensure work is moving towards vision

- Assist in establishing and supporting coding standards

- Stay current with industry standard tools and technologies

- Engage in tribe-level ceremonies, including planning, grooming, product demonstrations, and retrospectives

- Perform risk analysis on work items defined for an initiative

- Assist in enabling and maintaining the continuous delivery pipeline and exhibit a DevOps mindset to enable autonomy of agile scrum teams

- With guidance from Architecture, perform feasibility studies and proofs of concepts on new solutions or techniques which may be employed

- Respond to trouble/support calls for production applications in order to make quick repair to prevent application outages

- Create and/or update documentation to support development efforts. Documentation may include detailed specifications, implementation guides, architecture diagrams and/or design documents

- Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize