Principal Backend Engineer

**JOB SUMMARY**

As the **Principal Software Engineer (Applications) **, you will provide influential best practices and technical leadership in the planning, architecture, design, implementation and lead a development team to deploy our yet to be announced next generation integrated best-of-suite enterprise solutions. The role of the **Principal Software Engineer (Applications) **is the foundation that will enable us to deliver unparalleled system reliability that our global clientele has come to expect.

As the **Principal Software Engineer (Applications) **, you will be directly involved in the architecture and careful selection of the technology stack. On a day-to-day basis, you will work with diverse team members across the full spectrum of software development services including product managers, business analysis, UI/UX, frontend engineering and quality assurance teams. The **Principal Software Engineer (Applications) **is the technical point of contact, engineering lead, role model and mentor for the Software Engineering team members stationed both locally and offshore across a myriad of backgrounds and nationalities.

The **Principal Software Engineer (Applications) **is constantly challenged to balance business viability, technical feasibility, customer desire and time to market to ensure that the organisational ideas become winning products.

**JOB DUTIES**
- Provide thought leadership to business and technology stakeholders on value propositions, best practices and cloud computing strategies.
- Effectively communicate the technical strategy, processes and needs across organisation.
- Work closely with the Product Owners and Product Managers to understand, stay in-sync and deliver to production to the organisation’s product vision.
- Define overall backend software architecture for our yet to be announced next generation integrated best-of-suite enterprise solutions.
- Work with cross-functional teams to oversee the design, development, and management of high efficiency, secure, scalable, cost optimised, robust and resilient cloud-based enterprise infrastructure solutions from design, development, test, staging and production environments across multiple microservice systems and all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Envision and implement an automated CI/CD pipeline and/or DevOps and change management processes.
- Participate in the project discussion of technical implementation, unit test implementation, codes review, and backend architecture design, implementation and optimization.
- Ensure all software products under supervision are adhering to the highest engineering standards which includes code maintainability, quality, monitoring, operational excellence, and documentation.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure merged code adheres to best practices and standards.
- Act as a supervisor, mentor and role model to the entire Backend Engineering division both local and overseas and support them in their trainings and career growth.
- Stay up-to-date with new technology trends, languages and techniques.
- Source, seek, hire and fill skills and experience gaps among the Backend Engineering team members.

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**
- Bachelor's Degree of Computing, Software Engineering, IT or related field.
- Solid experience in enterprise cloud platforms, microservices architecture, Kubernetes or other container-based deployments, high-availability backend API, Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Relational Databases, NoSQL, Swagger etc.
- Expert knowledge of implementing CI/CD Pipeline, DevOps toolsets, containers and building on top of open-source frameworks.
- Keen knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Excellent documentation skills in drafting clear and concise requirements and specifications along with in-depth knowledge of product strategy.
- Experience practitioner in agile frameworks such as scrum, lean or extreme programming.
- Strong time management skills, ability to meet tight deadlines and successfully juggle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging, problem-solving, and proficiency in root cause analysis on a large and distributed codebase.
- Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to anticipate outcomes of a solution.
- Strong knowledge in software engineering, technology trends, technology constraints and software development lifecycle.
- Maintain confidentiality of information processed or prepared.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong sense of responsibility, initiative, and commitment.
- Self-driven and perform duties and responsibilities independently with minimum supervision.
- With ‘Can’ attitude whenever you face difficulty.
- Willing to roll-up one’s sleeves and provide a hands-on help to the team.
- Ability to lead, convince and inspire team members in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness to travel to meet and work with offshore team members.
- Fluency in written and spoken English and Ma