Principal Engineer

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Core Technical Competencies:

• Have crystal-clear, concise and effective communication skills

• Possess very strong OOPS and OOD Skills

• Possess very strong Pure JavaScript skills

• Have worked on at least one of the many Open Source web development frameworks such as Angular, React, Knockout, etc.

• Possess the analytical skills needed to help architect superlative applications

• Have worked closely with Application Design and Technical Architecture teams/professionals and must have understood development lifecycles (Product Development Environment is a bonus)

• Have worked closely with Project/Program Management teams and must have understood development methodologies such as SCRUM/Agile

• Have a strong understanding of Information security, protocols and libraries

• Possess work experience with Cloud based applications on one or more Cloud Provider

• Have proven credentials in providing technical leadership for a minimum of 3 years in the role of a Technical Lead or Senior Technical Lead

• Be open to work as an individual contributor as well as in a team

Good to have Competencies/Skills (Not mandatory):

• Serverless Computing using Microsoft Azure Functions or Amazon AWS Lambda or Google Firebase Functions

• possess Microservices experience, exposure to Azure Service Fabric and Reverse Proxies

• Containerized development with Docker or Kubernetes

• Realtime Queuing and messaging frameworks such as MSMQ, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Azure Service Hub, Mulesoft ESB, Google Firebase Realtime Database, etc.

Platform Skills:

• Consider yourself an exceptional C# 7.0+ programmer

• Consider yourself well-versed with concepts such as Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection, GoF and other Design Patterns, Reactive Programming

• Are familiar with testing methodologies such as unit testing, integration testing and behavior testing. Experience with tools such as MSTest, NUnit, Moq, CucumberJS is helpful

• Possess good SQL Skills (Queries, Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers). Exposure to NOSQL databases is a plus.

• Consider yourself a high value application/product development professional with skills in/exposure to the following skills:

Solutioning:

· Ability to add value in the application design and architecting phases by recommending optimal solutions

· Ability to write exceptional technical documentation, development proposals

· Very good online and offline research capabilities for solutioning

Legacy Systems:

· Prior experience in migrating legacy applications to modern platforms is a very good plus

Architecture:

· Proven hands-on experience with SOA, SaaS, Client-Server and Microservices based application architecture and development

· Knowledge of cloud based application architecture and development with one or more providers

Protocols and Architecture:

· A wide variety of experience on Microsoft WCF Exposure to SOAP based Services is a plus

Design Patterns:

· Well-versed with MVC architectural pattern. Exposure to MVP/MVVM is a plus

· Experience using Design Patterns viz., Factory, Abstract Factory, Unit of Work, Singleton, Decorator, Prototype, Builder, Observer, and others

DevOps:

· CI/CD using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services to create pipelines for Build and Deploy

· Any other DevOps tool such as GitLab-CI, Jenkins, GIT, etc.

· Strong working knowledge of GIT is preferred, especially knowledge around different branching strategies

Other Tools/Approaches:

· Wide experience in working with different design approaches - Data First, Code First, Model First approaches

· Microsoft Enterprise Library 6.0

· Extremely well-versed with LINQ to SQL, Lambda expressions, Extension Methods to Collections and Generics

· Object-Relational Mapping frameworks - NHibernate, Microsoft Entity Framework, LINQ, etc.

Leadership Skills:

• Have the ability to handle small and medium sized teams, providing technical expertise and direction

• Consider yourself as being a role-model for others with lesser experience and exposure

• Are a very good listener and you consider solutions/ideas offered by others sportively

• Are not afraid of failure and can start all over again