Principal Software Engineer

An Amazing Career Opportunity for Principal Software Engineer

Location: Chennai, India (Hybrid)

Job ID: 38064

Profile Summary:

Principal Engineer with experience in building enterprise grade web applications. Candidates should be familiar with “The Twelve Factor App”, continuous delivery concepts and “Cloud Native Applications”.

About HID Global

HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things. We make it possible for people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. Our trusted identity solutions give people secure and convenient access to physical and digital places and connect things that can be accurately identified, verified and tracked digitally. Millions of people around the world use HID products and services to navigate their everyday lives, and over 2 billion things are connected through HID technology. We work with governments, educational institutions, hospitals, financial institutions, industrial businesses, and some of the most innovative companies on the planet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 3,000 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. HID Global has is the trusted source for secure identity solutions for millions of customers and users around the world. In India, we have two Engineering Centre (Bangalore and Chennai) over 200+ Engineering Staff. Global Engineering Team is based in Chennai and one of the Business Unit Engineering team is based in Bangalore. Check us out: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/hidglobal/mycompany/

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Roles & Responsibilities include the following (Other duties may be assigned):

• Building new Cloud Applications. Enhancing and supporting existing cloud-based products; designing and implementing new features; assessing and paying down technical debt
• Developing pure cloud, and-or hybrid cloud solutions
• Write test-driven, maintainable code and follow industry standards and web development best practices.
• Implement new features and maintain existing features of production pipeline.
• Work with Application / System Architects, Engineering managers, Product Owners and other engineers to assure accurate timelines and deliverables.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a small group of highly skilled and motivated engineers. Performing peer code reviews and delivering feedback
• Collaborate with fellow engineers to find elegant, long-term solutions as well as creative quick fixes to problems.
• Following best practices and methodologies to produce desired software on time with top notch quality.
• Develop and maintain micro services deployed to Amazon AWS cloud with Docker.
• Be comfortable working with source control branching strategies
  
  

Technical Requirements:

• Experience in building a high-performance UI application in AWS Cloud platform
• Sound knowledge in UI Design Principles / Architectural Solutions
• Experience in developing Cloud platform-based application.
• Experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular.js, Angular, React.js, Bootstrap, CSS in JS, RxJS
• Experience in MERN & MEAN Stack
• Hands on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Understanding of Service Oriented Architectures and RESTful Web Service best practices
• Must be comfortable working on the Unix/Linux shell command line.
• Demonstrate the ability to reduce complex ideas and problems into clear concepts and solutions.
• Repo hosting services such as Bit bucket, GitHub
• Testing apps such as Mocha, chai, Jasmine
• Sound knowledge in Web Security
• Must have experience developing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications
• Possess a passion for new technology and innovation.
• Experience in Agile ways of working
• Additionally, understanding of the following would be added advantage  
• Experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, Autogen, CrewAI), or ML monitoring tools
• AWS (IAM, RDS, Document DB, ECR, EC2, VPC, VPN, Subnets, ALB …)  
• Kubernetes cluster hosting in Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean etc.  
• Server side design & programming or building large scale web applications using Java  
• Python  
• PyTorch  
• Spark  
  

Education and/or Experience:

• An undergraduate degree from a recognized university in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent, Desired master’s degree in computer science or Equivalent
• Must have 10 to 15 years of hands-on software development experience in modern server-side platform architecture, design and implementation or experience of creating the architecture, design, and implementation of a large web application.
• Must demonstrate depth of understanding in various technical aspects of software product engineering and possess a track record of significant technical contribution to more than 1 medium to large scale software product development effort.  
• Deep analytical and problem-solving skills
• Broad exposure / experience across Mobile APP development, SOA, Contemporary Web channel solutions, large scale distributed systems design and implementation
• Demonstrated experience in Design and code for Secure, Scale, Speed, and reliability.
• A desire for learning and understanding the security discipline
  
  

Why apply?

• Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
• Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
• Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.
  
  

This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements.

HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!

On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.

When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.