Principal Engineer, Backend

**About Us** Circles.Life revolutionizes the digital services industry by giving power back to our customers. Born in Singapore as Asia's first and most successful digital mobile services, our services have been rapidly gaining market share since our 2016 launch, while delivering best-in-class customer experience. We are owning the market in innovation, customer happiness and growth. Looking ahead, Circles.Life plans to further leverage its telco technology, including a new digital data platform to create more lifestyle products. Discover, an AI-driven events feature, is the first of many more. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Do you want to get firsthand insights on how a hyper-growth company operates and be part of building disruptive technology? Are you passionate about being part of a fun, ambitious team that thrives in an entrepreneurial tech environment? If the answer is YES, read on to find out more **Job description**: We are looking for a **Principal Engineer** who will be responsible for high impact projects. **As a key member of our team, your responsibilities include**: - Working closely with the Engineers to develop the best technical design and strategy, solving complex problems in the tech stack and drive execution to closure. - Derive the most viable technical solution to solve business needs by paying attention to functional and nonfunctional requirements while providing the hands-on technical leadership to implement the same. - Owning the delivery of various timelines, ensuring that key milestones are met and deliveries are of the highest quality - Establishing various best practices for software development and encouraging their adoption with the team and organization - Deploy and maintain enterprise class RESTful web services - Own the engineering excellence and operational readiness of the service driving the SLO,SLI, SLA of the relevant services - Take ownership to drive quality of the services under your purview via integration test and unit test coverage - Responsible for all microservices within your purview responsible driving their quality, security,availability, scalability and other "ilities" - Collaborate with other non-technical stakeholders of the business which includes Product Managers, Designers, Marketing etc. - Encouraging and mentoring an excellent team of talented engineers by mentoring them and working with them to remove any roadblocks - Dive deep into each issue, own reactive fixes, and execute long term fixes - Assist other Support Engineers on complex RCA issues - Provide technical mentoring and guidance to other engineers and drive to inculcate a solid engineering culture - Provide L3 engineering support **What's on offer**: We provide a great environment and platform for employees to build their career. In this role, you can expect: - Unique opportunity to be a part of innovating the telecommunications industry - Once in a lifetime chance to help shape a brand from the ground up - Autonomy in the role and in managing your own portfolio - Exposure to the fast-paced world of high-tech start-ups - Attractive experience and compensation - Working with passionate, smart and driven colleagues in a vibrant environment **Requirements**: - Degree / Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent - Hands-on coding experience and passion with track record of handling various deliveries, of which 5 years of relevant Engineering Technical Leadership - Strong design and architectural experience in building various highly-scalable and highly-available products (millions of consumers) - Proficiency in at least one server side framework for languages such as Spring Boot-java, Node js, Go Lang - Strong understanding of the SDLC Activities which include Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Post-Production Support etc. - Strong people management skills to lead and build a high-performing team - Experience in Product Management and collaborating with Product teams and Managers - Experience in product-based / hyper-growth environment highly advantageous - Experience in Micro Serviced based development - Hands on experience with SQL/No SQL databases - Working knowledge in Domain driven development would be an advantage - Prior experience in the telco domain would be an advantage To all recruitment agencies: Circles.Life will only acknowledge resumes shared by recruitment agencies if selected in our preferred supplier partnership program. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Circles.Life employees or any other company location. Circles.Life will not be held accountable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes not uploaded via our ATS. - Circles.Life is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, nat