Principal Software Engineer

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer This role is Office Based, Hyderabad Office

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer for our Product engineering team

In this role, you will…

• Develop, maintain and enhance .NET applications and services to contribute to our legacy and cloud platform.
• Analyze product and technical user stories and convey technical specifications in a concise and effective manner.
• Code & deliver a working product, with a ‘first time right’ approach.
• Participate in release planning, sprint planning, and technical design reviews; provide input as appropriate.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, and other team members as appropriate and be the go-to person for technical matters.
• Develop and maintain thorough knowledge and understanding of products.
• Leading projects as necessary, increasing team productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Drive key architectural decisions and design considerations.
• Partner with other Architect’s and Manager to come up with setting technical guidelines and participate in code reviews to mentor other engineers on best practices.
• Partner with Product to do early feasibility of technical architecture.
• Partner with other Architects to build necessary frameworks to improve productivity of the engineers by driving automation.
• Introduce newer technologies as needed along with a strong POC and build a strong use case for more adoptability.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide detailed RCA.
• Participate in agile activities like sprint planning, and technical design reviews; provide input as appropriate
• AI-Driven Software Architecture: Design, develop, and implement scalable, maintainable, and high-performance AI-powered software systems. Integrate AI models and algorithms into software applications to deliver intelligent solutions.
  
  

You’ve Got What It Takes If You Have…

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years of experience with active hands-on development experience in Microsoft Technology stack using C#
• Strong experience developing Microservices, RESTful services (preferably AWS)
• Experience with AWS core services: Lambda, ECS (Elastic Container Service), SNS (Simple Notification Service), SQS (Simple Queue Service), DynamoDB.
• Expertise in CloudWatch (monitoring and logging), cost management tools, and IAM for managing user permissions and security protocols.
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch and querying logs in Splunk.
• Exposure to ORM’s like Entity Framework, Nhibernate or similar.
• Strong TDD approach and hands-on experience on tools like Nunit, xUnit or any other testing tools or frameworks and CICD practices.
• Strong in OOP and SOLID design principles.
• Understand AWS core services and basic architecture best practices.
• Experience in working on projects with public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
• Highly efficient data persistent design techniques. Strong understanding of data retrieval performance (queries, caching). Able to optimize designs/queries for scale.
• Proficient experience with relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server/Postgres. Exposure to other non-relational DBs like MongoDB is a plus!
• Good understanding on how to deal with concurrency and parallel work streams.
• Should have work experience with Agile practices.
• Should be very good at analyzing and Debugging/Troubleshooting functional and technical issues.
• Should have good insight on Performance/Optimization techniques.
• Good understanding on secure development practices and proactively codes to avoid security issues. Able to resolve all findings.
• Excellent analytical, quantitative and problem-solving abilities
• Conversant in algorithms, software design patterns and Microservices, and their best usage.
• Ability to build frameworks and POC’s from scratch that can be used across the teams.
• Self-motivated, requiring minimal oversight.
• Good team player with the ability to handle multiple concurrent priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Passion for continuous process and technology improvement
• AWS experience must and Certification preferable.
  
  

Our Culture

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Who We Are

Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 100 million+ users in 180+ countries and in nearly 50 languages use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.

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