Principal Software Engineer Email Team, Cloud EngineeringBurlington, MA, USA

Role

Principal Software Engineers possess the ability to own the software product, function as a technical lead, providing technical direction to other developers, and provide broad insight and architectural recommendations across a product set to teams across Cloud Engineering to ensure effective development. This role will frequently have direct responsibility for product features or key technology choices and implementation. Collaborates as part of an agile-centric team for the development of complex systems; including requirements analysis, concept development and design, implementation and testing, demonstrating flexibility of role, and believes in Test-Driven Development.

Main Duties

Our Ideal Candidate

You have a lot of energy matched with superb communication skills. You excel in a fast-paced environment and thrive on exceeding goals and quotas. All while scaling tall buildings you’ll also be able to:

• Work with highly skilled teams to collaborate on effective solutions

• Passionate about problem solving

Responsibilities

• Drive design and implementation leveraging modern design patterns

• Ability to partner effectively with UX, PM, DevOps, QE and other developers to design and implement meeting the spirit of requirements

• Pride in authorship of code

• Experience in modern front end frameworks<

• Technically curious to keep present on advances in technology

• Experience with segregation of model, presentation, and business logic.

• TDD experience and strong desire to build in test from the start.

• Write code (Test or Product) to deliver against project timescales, quality and requirements in various languages including Java or other selected languages for Sophos Cloud products.

• Conduct Unit, System and Integration testing and fixing errors, with guidance if required.

• Work with best of breed Cloud technologies (NoSQL, high throughput event processing, cloud-scale data analytics, etc)

• Design small software components (Functionality, defect fixes or automation) that form part of a larger solution, in line with team objectives

• Define Test scenarios and Test cases to ensure quality of the teams deliverables

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers in daily Scrum meetings.

Benefits

In most cases, the compensation package includes:

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Long-term disability insurance

• 401k plan

• Vacation time

• Gym membership compensation