Principal Software Engineer (USA)

Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours.

Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.

With a focus on customer-centric thinking, we're not just another vendor – we're a transformative force in the industry. By joining one of our Customer Excellence teams, you will have the chance to work with our portfolio of over 10,000 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies.

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Principal Software Engineer who thrives in a hands-on technical role with a focus on owning the quality of the code and systems they develop. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of features and systems, ensuring high standards of quality, performance, and maintainability throughout the development lifecycle. If you are committed to shipping reliable and scalable solutions, and enjoy solving complex problems, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Development: Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of features and services from concept to delivery.
  
  
• Quality Ownership: Ensure high code quality, performance, and maintainability by following best practices and conducting thorough code reviews, automated testing, and performance monitoring.
  
  
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, to define and deliver features that meet both business and technical objectives.
  
  
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement within the codebase, infrastructure, and development process. Drive solutions that increase team efficiency and code quality.
  
  
• System Reliability: Monitor the health and performance of services and ensure timely resolution of issues and bugs.
  
  
• Technical Innovation: Stay current with new technologies and trends to ensure the systems you build are modern, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices.
  
  
• Thought Leader and Influencer: Drives decisions on difficult challenges with innovative ideas. Leads and influences entire product group with coaching and guidance.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ Years Experience in the Focus Scope of Responsibility: Multiple Product
  
  
• Mentor all Engineering and Leadership
  
  
• Thought Leader in Area
  
  
• TypeScript & Node.js Expertise: Experience with TypeScript, including advanced types and type-checking techniques and strong understanding of Node.js runtime and ecosystem.
  
  
• Frontend Experience: Strong experience in building, designing, and front-end applications using JavaScript client side frameworks (Angluar, Vue, React)
  
  
• API Development: Skilled in designing and building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
  
  
• Database Management: Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
  
  
• Asynchronous Programming: Familiarity with promises, async/await, and event-driven architecture.
  
  
• Testing and Debugging: Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Mocha) and debugging tools.
  
  
• Code Quality and Standards: Understanding of code linting, formatting, and adherence to best practices (e.g., ESLint, Prettier).
  
  
• Version Control: Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows (e.g., GitHub, GitLab).
  
  
• Cloud Services and Deployment: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  
  
• Microservices Architecture: Understanding of microservices design principles and implementation.
  
  
• Security Best Practices: Awareness of security standards, such as OAuth, JWT, and data encryption.
• Performance Optimization: Experience in optimizing code for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
  
  
• CI/CD Pipelines: Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI).
  
  
• Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile development practices, inclu