Agoda · 4 days ago

Principal Software Engineer Back End

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

12+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Think and own the full life cycle of our products, not just a single piece of code – from business requirements, technology selection, coding standards, agile development, unit and application testing, to CI/CD and proper monitoring

Design, develop and maintain platforms across the back end area

Improve scalability, stability, and efficiency of our existing systems

Write great code and help others write great code

Collaborate with other teams and departments

Qualification

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ScalaJavaC#Project ManagementSQLCassandraHadoopAlgorithmsData StructuresCodingProblem-SolvingHard WorkingCommunicationScrum/AgileLarge-Scale DevelopmentGitTeamCityPuppetQueueing SystemsSparkNoSQLMongoDBPlay FrameworkAkka Library

Required

12+ years’ experience under your belt developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Scala, Java or C#

Experience in leading projects, initiatives and/or teams, with full ownership of the systems involved

Data platforms like SQL, Cassandra or Hadoop. You understand that different applications have different data requirements

Good understanding of algorithms and data structures

Strong coding ability

You are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skills

Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

Preferred

Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies

Experience building large-scale distributed products

Core engineering infrastructure tools like Git for source control, TeamCity for Continuous Integration and Puppet for deployment

Hands-on experience working with technology like queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), Play framework, Akka library