Principal Software Engineer , Java @ Simplicity First

• The Software Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software applications for our core product

• This includes developing software components including Frameworks, APIs, Websites, Utilities, Databases and Internet-related tools
• Determines hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design when applicable
• Act with Integrity and Professionalism should be able to communicate openly with the respective stake holder and ask for guidance

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• 8+ years of experience with Kotlin or Java

• Experience in API Development and Relational database systems

• Working knowledge of JVM web frameworks such as Dropwizard

• Understand reliability and microservice monitoring best practice

Desired:

• Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs

• Experience with Microservices and Distributed systems

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle.

• Conducts systems analysis and makes recommendations to improve the system to achieve an outcome.

• Promotes internal best practices and coding conventions to write and execute tests for your own code, including creating comprehensive unit tests.

• Contributes to Technical Requirements Documents.

• Communicates successfully with large teams and many stakeholders.

• Provides mentorship for Software Engineers and participates in interview panels to hire new Software Engineers.

• Assists in removing obstacles for the team to yield successful sprints.

• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.

• Ability to decompose and delegate work to junior engineers.

• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional organizations.

• All other duties as assigned.