Principal Engineer - Backend

About the role:

We are seeking a highly motivated Principal Engineer with expertise in building scalable, extensible customer payment solutions, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, collaborating with other team members across teams to innovate current/new products; Identify, communicate and implement best practices for the engineering team. Our engineering process is fully agile and has a really fast release cycle - which keeps our environment very energetic and fun.

What you will do:

• Architect, design and lead the development of key software infrastructure, systems, tools and processes, ensuring high scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with the product and other stakeholders across the company to solidify/ negotiate requirements and feasibility.
• Identify, influence and participate in making technical decisions that have a positive impact on engineering and business as a whole.
• Problem-solving that involves complex interactions, constraints imposed by systems, processes, people and physical goods.
• Drive automated solutions that enable better efficiency and process improvement
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, collaborate with other team members across functions to innovate/improve current/new products by suggesting improvements to the software system.
• Identify, communicate and implement best practices for the engineering team.
• You will advocate for good, clean, well documented and performing code; follow standards and best practices.
• As a Principal Engineer, you will be additionally responsible for planning and timelines of all projects in your domain

We would love for you to have:

• Education: Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science
• Experience: 7-10 yrs recent hands-on experience of working on scalable systems and a diverse set of products/systems.
• Experience with Java stack. Hands-on experience with development and troubleshooting of services.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and Hadoop stack.
• Experience in System Design of complex Supply-Chain e-commerce systems, Algorithm design and their optimization is a huge plus.
• Strong working knowledge of any REST-based framework, OOPS, Design Patterns
• Expert level experience in building fault-tolerant and scalable platforms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written (technical) communication and able to work across teams like Business, Product, Engineering, Analytics, App Engineering seamlessly.
• Ability to deliver great results in an agile development
• Exposure to open-source libraries and frameworks.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle, design, develop, review, debug, document, and deliver (especially in a multi-location organization).
• Ability and experience in the evaluation and integration of third-party systems and libraries and independent completion of POC. Prior experience in integrating with 3rd party Payment solution (like Stripe) is a plus.
• Passion for performance benchmarking and debugging.