Principal Full-Stack Developer

Job Description:

Principal Full-Stack Developer

NOTE: This role requires current experience in highly scalable technical environments. Specifically high-volume websites and high-velocity transactions. Also performance engineering coupled with solid Full-Stack development skills in Java, React.js and Node.js (Python or Javascript are also desirable)

About the Company:
Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Consumer Technology experience team is delivering innovative and reliable technology solutions to power differentiated, simplified customer experiences. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future-you’ll create it.

About the Team:

This team works with external apps and websites, within the AT&T domain. External high-volume B2C type transactions in the millions per day. We need candidates with both full-stack experience and high-volume websites and high-velocity transactions.
 

As part of our team, you’ll transform the way we deliver a seamless customer experience with digital at the center of all you do. In our world, digital is much larger than just an eCommerce channel, we are transforming all channels to digitally perform as one team to create a better customer experience. Digital transformation will revolutionize the digital space, and you can build a career that will propel your future.
 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who has hands on experience on both front-end (UI) and back-end technologies and extensive experience is solving web application performance bottlenecks and optimize services and applications to improve overall performance of the system. This role is for a full stack developer who also has experience in performance engineering
 

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead and deliver highly available and scalable solutions leveraging multi-region principles.
• As a Principal Engineer, monitors the performance of web applications and provides technical leadership to drive performance improvements with industry standard and innovative techniques.
• Define and track key software performance indicators to drive continuous performance optimizations.
• As a Principal Engineer, build sophisticated test suite and integrate with CI/CD to continuously measure performance and make it part of development practices.
• Recommends infrastructure upgrades to support business growth and evolving technology requirements.
• Ensures the integrity, security, compliance, and performance of platforms and the applications or services that reside within by partnering with peer engineering leads and architects.
• Partners with engineering teams to create and maintain documentation for key architecture and design decisions related to performance, availability, scalability and caching strategies.
• Adheres to and drives modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
• Develops “best-in-class” engineering for our applications by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, high performance, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
• Improves test coverage for services; promotes a “shift-left” mindset; organizes and implements integration tests; and resolves problem areas.
• Stays abreast of emerging technologies and assesses their applicability to the organization.
• Fosters a collaborative environment that encourages knowledge sharing and skill development.
• Leads and mentors a team of engineers; provides technical guidance, sharing best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.

Role Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of proven Full Stack Development experience building sophisticated applications and APIs in Cloud and hybrid cloud environments at large scale in JavaScript and React JS.
• 10+ years of solid experience and understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices for building highly scalable and maintainable systems.
• 5+ years of working experience with high-volume websites and high-velocity t