Job description

Title: Principal Engineer or Senior Software engineer 

Soft skills:

• Natural problem solvers - Ideal candidate’s passion is hard problem solving. He/She should look forward to solving challenging problems in hand. They do not shy away in solving complex problems.

• Big picture thinkers - He/She should pay attention to architectural decisions and long term impacts on products with the big picture in mind. He/She should not look for shortcuts and are always thinking ahead.

• Great communicators - He/She is able to communicate effectively to all stake holders both technical and non-technical. 

• Disciplined and Organized - He/She should stay disciplined and organized in their work and be able to set expectations and plan their tactical work effectively.

• Customer focussed - He/She should be comfortable making the right and hard decisions that matter the most for the customers. Technology should not be the end all. Rather, they should focus on using technology to solve real and hard problems for the customers benefits and improving the problem space. 

• Learners - He/She is constantly curious and learning is part of everyday.

• Humble with good interpersonal skills. 

Hard Skills

• Building large scale seas products experience is a huge plus 

• Great at system design, software scaling concepts and coding skills. Should know the right tools to use, and be extremely productive and fast.

• Knows how to think in terms of tradeoffs and risks for each solution

• Has and enforces high standards on how software is written and products are built.

• Innovative mindset who can think in terms of the next big thing to build in the problem space

• Knows how to prototype solutions fast to try new concepts and not risk averse. 

• Up to date with modern technology trends and role models products in the market on how modern software is built and how products shape up and improve customer experience.

• Java, python and an object oriented programming language knowledge. 

• Awareness of AWS cloud native software development is a plus. If not familiar, should be willing to learn fast

• Awareness of cybersecurity domain is a plus, but not required.