Principal Software Engineer

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💎 Seniority level: Principal, 10+ years

📍 Location: United States

💸 Salary: 166900.0 - 198000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 10+ years

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Requirements:

10+ years of hands-on experience in full-stack software design and development.
7+ years of experience working on system architecture and integration with third-party APIs.
Comfortable performing research and discovery, and synthesizing your thoughts through architecture and technical roadmaps.
Experience developing resilient file-transfer and data-streaming architectures.
Experience working with static-site generation frameworks (Astro, Next.JS, Gatsby, etc).
Ability to manage client expectations and project timelines.
Demonstrated experience in managing, mentoring & coaching development teams in an Agile environment.
Penchant for learning new technologies, balanced with strong pragmatic thinking.
Proficient with version control and effective collaborative development workflows.

Responsibilities:

Meet with clients (business and technical) and extract information necessary to document architecture encompassing business processes and systems.
Perform technical evaluations of prototypes and requirements and provide feedback to Product Owners, Designers, and Architects to ensure feasibility and performance at scale.
Document and maintain records for decisions behind architectural choices and current state of the training platform.
Build web applications conforming to our design system and ready for integrating continuous updates to reflect the features and functionality of partner software.
Implement pixel-perfect Figma designs that replicate interactive prototype functions.
Support development, test, build, and deployment of software applications to unclassified and classified production environments.
Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, tools, and processes for continuous improvement.
Solve complex problems by finding alternative solutions to critical technical issues and mitigating or avoiding risk.
Proactively addresssecurity requirements and other constraints as they are discovered or identified.

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