Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for a Principal Software Engineer

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer

Job Location: San Francisco, CA (Remote job)

Job Duration: Direct Hire/ Full-time / Permanent job

Salary: $215k/year - $235K/year

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer with a strong cloud engineering design background to lead engineering design and development for an architecture modernization effort for industry leading press release processing systems. The project requires a complete rebuild of the client's back office system, including transition from a legacy architecture to a modern, serverless technology stack, a new database platform, new REST API platform, and optimization of the system to ensure its long-term operational reliability.

What You'll Do

• Develop engineering design and documentation for multiple components of a press release processing system, with emphasis on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership and direct contribution to the code base using modern technology stacks, with emphasis on serverless platforms.
• Lead development of proof of concepts (POCs).
• Contribute to design of development environments, develop usage guidelines, and SDLC best practices.
• Lead and contribute to implementation of CI/CD flows.
• Tackle a wide variety of technical problems throughout the stack and contribute daily to all parts of our product code base.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders to develop complex systems.
• Perform code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to coding standards, and maintainability.
• Monitor the correct implementation of engineering designs and address implementation issues.
• Identify and design solutions for performance bottlenecks across the entire application.
• Identify design and operational improvements to existing applications.

What you will need:

• 15 years of relevant hands-on programming experience.
• Technical leadership experience, leading 6-10 engineers on 6 months long projects.
• Expert level knowledge in modern programming languages and their ecosystems, including Python, Go Lang, NodeJS or similar.
• Extensive experience in Cloud platform architectures, at least one of AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Expertise in multiple types of database and data retrieval technologies including Relational, NoSQL, GraphQL and others.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent skills in developing engineering designs and related documentation.

About Maxonic:

Since 2002 Maxonic has been at the forefront of connecting candidate strengths to client challenges. Our award winning, dedicated team of recruiting professionals are specialized by technology, are great listeners, and will seek to find a position that meets the long-term career needs of our candidates. We take pride in the over 10,000 candidates that we have placed, and the repeat business that we earn from our satisfied clients.

Interested in Applying?

Please apply with your most current resume. Feel free to contact Bikram Anand (bikram.a@maxonic.com / (510) 613-4996) for more details.