Senior Principal Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead software design and development efforts across various engineering teams and principal software engineers.

• Enhance delivery speed and quality through technical expertise, strong leadership, and the promotion of best practices.

• Act as a primary contact for a broad portfolio to disseminate knowledge and facilitate the adoption of new technologies.

• Collaborate with third-party vendors to address technical needs and foster interoperability.

• Support 4–6 development teams working on diverse products and APIs.

• Ensure efficient resource utilization and optimize cloud expenditure.

• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and enhance existing codebases.

• Conduct portfolio-level Principal meetings.

• Design and create reusable foundational code components.

• Develop proofs of concept utilizing new technologies.

• Monitor cloud resource consumption and implement cost-saving measures.

• Address and resolve highly complex technical issues, urgent problems, and outages.

• Represent the organization at conferences and participate in relevant events.

• Provide leadership, mentoring, coaching, and performance evaluations to direct reports.

• Collaborate with Distinguished Engineers to define technology solutions and roadmaps.

• Align strategies across local teams and eliminate project obstacles.

• Promote thought leadership and foster innovation.

• Resolve technological disputes and implement enhancements to vendor features.

• Advocate for successful adoption of tools and technologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be at least eighteen years of age.

• Must have legal authorization to work in the United States.

• Proficient in at least two technologies utilized by THD IT.

• Familiarity with standard business processes in the retail sector.

• Experience in Agile/Lean development methodologies.

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related discipline.

• One area of expertise must include a programming language.

• Ability to rapidly comprehend complex systems.

• Demonstrated mastery in assigned domains.

• Active engagement in or leadership of professional organizations related to specific domains.

• Preferably, 5 years of prior leadership experience.

• Generally requires overnight travel of less than 15% of the time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote/virtual work arrangement.

• Overnight travel typically ranges from 5% to 20% of the time.

• Opportunities for leadership, mentoring, and coaching.

• Attendance at conferences and professional development through the acquisition of new technologies and concepts.