Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Native & Microservices

Equifax Credit Information Services Pvt Ltd; Thiruvananthapuram; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare package

Paid time off

Online learning platform

Job summary

Equifax Credit Information Services Pvt Ltd is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead cloud-native, microservice-based solutions. You will design and develop Java/SpringBoot services on GCP, oversee big data processing with Dataflow/Beam, and collaborate with product, architecture and SRE teams to drive technical direction.

The role requires extensive experience in cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, CI/CD with Jenkins, and strong leadership in Agile environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 7+ years experience with Java, SpringBoot, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
• 7+ years with Cloud tech: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• 7+ years designing cloud-native solutions and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate deep understanding of cloud-native, distributed microservice architectures.
• Build relationships with product, business and sales.
• Mentor and develop junior and senior engineers.
• Define and report SLA/SLOs with product and architecture teams.
• Lead Sprint planning and other team activities.
• Design and develop cloud-native solutions and big data processing.

Skills

Cloud native

Microservices

Java

SpringBoot

GCP

Kubernetes

Big data

Dataflow/Beam

UI development

Jenkins

Terraform

Team leadership

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GCP SDKs

Jenkins

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Principal Engineer - Agentic Engineering Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you. Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

What you’ll do

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures.
• Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed.
• Collaborate with the architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices.
• Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters.
• Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers.
• Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs.
• Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams.
• Drive technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books.
• Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity.
• Implement architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions.
• Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
• Perform R&D, prototyping/PoC of cloud-native solutions.
• Design and develop cloud-native solutions.
• Design and development of big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others.
• Design and development of micro services using Java, Springboot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubeneties.
• Deploy and release software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs.
• Cloud Certification strongly preferred.

What could set you apart

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong leadership qualities
• Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts
• Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps
• Experience overseeing yearly as well as product/project budgets
• Working in a highly regulated environment
• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others
• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap)
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA and Microservices
• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.
• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+)
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI

What experience you need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 7+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, SpringBoot, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• 7+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure
• 7+ years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions
• 7+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes
• 7+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs

We offer a hybrid work setting, comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, attractive paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

Primary Location: IND-Trivandrum-Equifax Analytics-PEC Function: Function - Tech Dev and Client Services Schedule: Full time Experience Level Senior Level