Principal Software Engineer

The company:

Most engagements run three to nine months, with a small team on site part of the week. Since 1957, the firm has done strategy and operations work for utilities and public agencies.

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. Our Payments team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. This role is fully remote within India. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Day to day:

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green

Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of professional software development experience
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure

Preferred:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Contributions to open source projects

Pay and benefits:

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Internet reimbursement

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Winchridge.