Principal Software Engineer

Meazure Learning; India; Remote; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay

Healthy Work Culture

Career Growth Opportunities

Learning and Development Opportunities

Company Sponsored Health Insurance

Referral Award Program

Company Provided IT Equipment

Transportation Program

Company Provided Meals

14 Company Provided Holidays

Generous Leave Program

Job summary

Meazure Learning is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead architectural decisions for our SAAS product. You will shepherd complex systems, mentor scrum teams, and collaborate with product management to shape the roadmap and validate user stories.

You will drive prototype development, ensure designs meet requirements, and guide across architectural directions while leveraging technologies like Ruby on Rails, Go, Kafka, NATS.IO, and Jetstream.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of professional software development disciplines and deep technical skills.
• 1+ year in Principal Software Engineering role.
• Strong expertise in service-oriented architecture and event driven architecture.
• Strong expertise Ruby on Rails.
• Proficient in using Javascript frameworks.
• Strong expertise in developing cloud infrastructure applications.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills.
• Experience with NATS.IO, Jetstream, or Kafka preferred.
• Experience with GOlang preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product management to create product roadmap and validate user stories.
• Develop technical specifications for new products and services.
• Drive prototype development to ensure feasibility of designs or validate use of emerging technologies.
• Understand the broader context of the technology vision, and advise management and product about tradeoffs that may impact schedules.
• Lead projects and provide technical guidance and mentorship to scrum team members.
• Perform design and code reviews, validate that designs are fulfilling user story criteria.
• Align solutions with architectural direction and standards across teams.
• Tackle complex technical problems; perform root cause analysis; and implement effective solutions.
• Identify areas of technical debt, outline what needs to be done and communicate ROI urgency of addressing.
• Assist in recruiting initiatives.
• Maintaining high-quality technical documentation for code, systems, and processes.

Skills

SOA

Event-driven

Leadership

Mentorship

Technical judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Root cause analysis

Problem solving

Cloud infrastructure

Go (Golang)

JavaScript frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Go (Golang)

Kafka

NATS.IO

Jetstream

Job description

At Meazure Learning, we aim to empower open-minded, inquisitive, and driven people, and we love how each new addition to the team adds to our culture. Here, you can positively impact the careers of millions of test-takers and reshape the education technology landscape by working toward one vision:

"To provide life-long learners across the globe the freedom to pursue their academic dreams and career aspirations safely, securely, and conveniently."

Our Vision starts with our values—Hungry, Humble, and Smart. We are looking for team members who model drive for results. Team members who think of the organization and team first without ego or agenda. Leaders who instinctively collaborate and operate with emotional intelligence. This is the foundation of success for all employees at Meazure Learning.

The Role:

Our Engineering team gets to innovate and experiment daily with some of the latest technologies in our industry for a product that is paving the way in our space. We are always looking for opportunities to learn, grow, and have fun with each other. Our team culture encourages individuality, collaboration, and creative problem solving.

The Principal Software Engineer appreciates the complexities of building a product (SAAS) and understands software architecture so that solutions are clever enough to solve the immediate problem, flexible enough to adapt to our changing market, and simple enough to maintain so that it can stand the test of time.

The Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product management to create product roadmap and validate user stories
• Develop technical specifications for new products and services
• Drive prototype development to ensure feasibility of designs or validate use of emerging technologies
• Understand the broader context of the technology vision, and advise management and product about tradeoffs that may impact schedules
• Lead projects and provide technical guidance and mentorship to scrum team members
• Perform design and code reviews, validate that designs are fulfilling user story criteria
• Align solutions with architectural direction and standards across teams
• Tackle complex technical problems; perform root cause analysis; and implement effective solutions.
• Identify areas of technical debt, outline what needs to be done and communicate ROI urgency of addressing
• Assist in recruiting initiatives
• Maintaining high-quality technical documentation for code, systems, and processes

Additional Position Information:

• Remote India Opportunity
• Core Hours: 2 PM - 11 PM (IST)
• Core Days Worked: Monday - Friday

The Desired Attributes:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of professional software development disciplines and deep technical skills
• 1+ year in Principal Software Engineering role
• Strong expertise in service-oriented architecture and event driven architecture
• Strong expertise Ruby on Rails
• Proficient in using Javascript frameworks.
• Strong expertise in developing cloud infrastructure applications
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills
• Experience with NATS.IO, Jetstream, or Kafka preferred
• Experience with GOlang preferred

The Total Rewards - The Benefits:

• Competitive Pay
• Healthy Work Culture
• Career Growth Opportunities
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Company Sponsored Health Insurance
• Referral Award Program
• Company Provided IT Equipment (for remote team members)
• Transportation Program (on-site team members)
• Company Provided Meals (on-site team members)
• 14 Company Provided Holidays
• Generous Leave Program

Learn more at www.meazurelearning.com

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