SteadyRain is seeking a Principal Software Engineer who will be responsible for analyzing project requirements, developing a plan of technical action for the satisfaction of those requirements, and to research, develop, and design new technologies and techniques for accomplishing these tasks.
The Principal Software Engineer is also responsible for the drafting of high level technical architecture designs, understanding and applying design patterns, working with project managers for the organization of work and work packages, and understanding system design and interdependencies. The individual in this role is expected to provide consistent and vocal feedback to their peers on code quality, correctness, and estimates.
The Principal Software Engineer is expected to continuously evaluate the design and development methodology and systems that are in place, continuously seek to refine & improve them, and be the most vocal critic about our processes, procedures, and standards. The Principal Software Engineer is expected to not only identify areas of potential improvement, but to propose means to improve them, to supply fact based arguments for the same. The Principal Software Engineer is expected to drive an atmosphere of continuous improvement and focus on consistency, quality, and correctness.
Responsibilities:
- Driving root-cause analysis in failures and issues encountered in produced systems.
- Participating and driving post-mortems on topics of project health & project quality.
- Assessing projects and implementation details for health and risk at all project phases.
- Refining, developing, and proposing patterns and practices for the improvement of output quality.
- Assessing the quality of output of peers and providing feedback on performance.
- Being a vocal advocate for the development team, the customer, and fastidiously protecting SteadyRain’s interests by working to ensure project output quality and engineering system effectiveness.
- Leading the design and development of solutions to the most challenging customer problems in a deliberate and systematic manner.
- Participating in client facing meetings, assisting in the drafting of strategic solutions to a variety of information & process management problems, and other problem spaces.
- Effectively communicating, both orally and written, with customers on the nature of a technical solution, paying careful attention to business objectives and needs.