Principal Software Engineer - BE

Strength in Trust 

OneTrust unlocks the full potential of data and AI, securely and responsibly. Our platform enforces the secure handling of company data, empowering organizations to drive innovation responsibly while mitigating risks. With a comprehensive suite of solutions spanning data and AI security, privacy, governance, risk, ethics, and compliance, OneTrust enables seamless collaboration between data teams and risk teams to enable rapid and trusted innovation. Recognized as the market leader in trust, OneTrust boasts over 300 patents and serves more than 14,000 customers globally, ranging from industry giants to small businesses.

The Challenge

• As a principal engineer, your job is to solve larger problems and translate somewhat vague problems into a set of actionable items. 
• You will need to understand the problem, the business impact and see how it can be improved. It might require you to design new services, change existing services 

Your Mission

• Has mastered development best practices. Understands the limits of our tools and when a problem that exceeds those limits deserves the effort of producing a new tool.  
• Understands the scope and relationships of large features and production stack for their area. Has subject matter expertise on multiple components.  
• Has a strong understanding of all modules/services relevant to own areas of expertise. 
• Performs expert programming tasks. Handles large-scale technical debt and refactoring. Shapes coding methodologies and best practices.  
• Participates in code reviews and can sign-off on large features. Can sign off on test plans.  
• Given a large, poorly understood problem, can explore the solution space (possibly with numerous POCs) to determine correct course of action. Participates in and supports initiatives outside of main area of responsibility. Provides technical leadership for projects including 1–2 individuals. 
• Designing, coding, and debugging software. 
• Improving the performance of existing software. 
• Providing training to other engineers. 
• Maintaining and upgrading existing software. 
• Recommending new technologies that can help increase productivity. 
• Supervising and overseeing the technical aspects of projects. 
• Investigating software-related complaints from external and internal sources and making necessary adjustments to ensure optimal software performance. 
• Regularly attending team meetings to discuss projects, brainstorm ideas, and put forward solutions to any issues. 

You Are

• High technical and/or technological competence. 
• Understand and explain the big picture. 
• Effective communication & coaching skills.  
• Proactive, flexible, result-driven, with a “can do” attitude. 
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical field.  
• 7-10 years of experience developing Java enterprise applications (back-end services) along with a strong understanding of architecture and data management. 
• Minimum 2 years of Experience in Spring/Spring Boot, Hibernate frameworks and microservices architecture. 
• Technical / project lead, architecture and other experience desired. 
• Experience with at least one of the cloud solutions like Azure, AWS or GCP. 
• Strong expertise in object-oriented programming methodologies and familiarity with REST, JSON. 
• Database experience with SQL Server including design, development, and data processing (OLTP, batch processing, ETL, reporting, etc.). 
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment, and able to adapt effectively and quickly to a rapidly changing environment. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Experience or comfort working in a startup environment. 
• Team player. 
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