Software Engineer

Principal Financial Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Principal Financial Group in Pune invites a Software Engineer to develop, test, and maintain cloud-based applications using Java/J2EE and AWS. You will work with product owners to elicit requirements, write clean code, and participate in code reviews and automated testing.

The role emphasizes DevOps practices, REST APIs, and modern frameworks (Spring), with opportunities to learn Typescript and Snowflake, and to contribute to cloud-native migrations.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in any stream.
• Experience with AWS cloud development and distributed apps using Java/J2EE.
• Experience with Typescript encouraged and Snowflake experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements with guidance and elicit stakeholder needs.
• Develop high-quality code following established engineering practices and participate in code reviews.
• Support cloud-native solutions and migrations to AWS infrastructure.
• Build automated tests and ensure quality across the test pyramid.
• Adhere to security, policies, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

AWS Cloud Development

Java J2EE

Typescript

Snowflake

REST API

JUnit

CI/CD

SQL

Spring MVC

Hibernate

Education

Bachelor's degree (any stream)

Tools

EC2

Lambda

S3

DynamoDB

RDS

API Gateway

EventBridge

SQS

SNS

Fargate

Jenkins

Maven

Git

WebSphere

IDE (IntelliJ/Eclipse)

Job description

Job Summary

Responsibilities Job Purpose Software Engineer is responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining applications using established processes. With guidance, the role conducts analysis, elicits requirements, writes correct and clean code leveraging best practices, DevOps, testing/debugging, documentation, quality assurance reviews, implementation, and maintenance activities.

Responsibilities

• Build a strong understanding of customer and business needs, products, and associated features with guidance. Collaborate with Product Owners and other stakeholders for requirements elicitation.
• Develop high-quality code following established engineering practices and ensure on-time delivery. Participate in pair programming, mob programming, and peer reviews.
• Develop application code while ensuring compliance with established controls, policies, regulations, and other applicable non-functional requirements.
• Build and leverage automation and testing practices to support the complete test pyramid (Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and System/E2E Testing) and resolve defects.
• Proactively monitor, support, and maintain products in accordance with established support agreements.
• Develop an understanding of all layers of software development, including runtime environments, databases, APIs, user interface/user experience, quality assurance/automated testing, and security considerations throughout the software lifecycle.
• Participate in building cloud-native solutions and/or migrating existing applications to cloud infrastructure.
• Actively engage in training, self-development, and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Support fellow software engineers by providing guidance, advice, and coaching.
• Stay informed about internal and external technology trends.
• Demonstrate hands-on experience with DevOps practices and tools.
• Identify improvement opportunities beyond stated problems and propose solutions through collaboration, data-driven insights, and best practices.
• Demonstrate an agile mindset and actively participate in Scrum or equivalent ceremonies as part of the adopted execution framework.
• Build an understanding of the underlying product, architecture, and key design decisions to understand the why and contribute to technical solutioning to understand the how.
• With guidance from leadership, develop an understanding of the organization's strategy and key initiatives, and connect daily work to operational plans.
• Perform other job-related duties, special projects, and proof-of-concept activities as required.
• Actively participate in organizational and team-level initiatives.
• Adhere to Principal Information Security Policy and all compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• Education: Graduate - Bachelors degree (any stream)

Mandatory Skills

• 2+ years of software development experiences with focus on AWS cloud development and distributed applications development with Java & J2EE.
• Around 2 years experience in AWS development using Typescript.
• If not worked on Typescript, willing to learn Typescript because as per Principal standards Typescript is the preferred language for AWS development.
• Plus minimum of 6 months experience in Snowflake.
• Hands on experience and deploying applications on AWS cloud infrastructure(e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Fargate etc).
• Experience with REST API and Java Shared Libraries.
• Core Java Good OOPs concepts & principlesUnderstanding of MVC framework (Spring) Java persistence framework (like iBATIS/Mybatis/Hibernate), Developing test cases using JUnit, Application server (Websphere/Apache) - Basic configurationIDE (like RAD/Eclipse/Intellij), Markup languages (like XML/JSON), SpringBasic understanding of UMLUnderstanding of Versioning tools & Branching strategies (ClearCase/SVN/GIT), Working knowledge of CI & Build tools like Jenkins, MavenDatabase Concepts & SQL (using RDBMS like DB2/oracle) Knowledge of SDLC (like Agile, SAFe)