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Alex Lee, Inc. · 2 months ago

Principal Software Engineer (aka Principal SWE)

120 Fourth Street SW

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Alex Lee, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to deliver high performing, robust, scalable, and maintainable software while mentoring other engineers. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, documentation of system designs, and a focus on continuous improvement and best practices.

Food and Beverage

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership: Leads by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products

Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions

Serves as a subject matter expert for your assigned component, providing mentorship and expertise to build knowledge and capabilities within engineering teams

Plays an active role in maintaining an inclusive and positive culture through active participation in team discourse, providing mentorship for junior team members and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement

Actively schedules and attends code reviews to maximize quality, security and maintainability of all software

Quickly identify and resolve complex technical issues and recommend and implement permanent robust solutions

Collaboration and Cross-Functional Teams: Partners with leverages cross-functional teams determine user requirements and drive project plans, releases, and overall development

Collaborate with peers across the organization on projects that turn opportunity into results

Documentation and Transparency: Documents system designs, processes, and architecture for transparency and future reference, complying with standards developed by architecture teams

Reports on project status, challenges, and results to stakeholders

Continuous Improvement and Best Practices: Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while sharing knowledge with other engineers

Contribute to the continual improvement of your team’s quality standards and engineering processes

Qualification

People Soft 9.2ASP.NET MVCAgile ExperienceCloud / AzureSQLProblem-solvingEffective time managementCommunicationSelf-motivationOrganizational skills

Required

Requires either a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience

8+ years software engineering experience including but not limited to the following technologies/skills:

Proficient in People Soft 9.2, Use of Open Search to support People Soft functions, People Code, and Fluid

SQR, SQL and SSIS a plus

Familiarity with ASP.NET MVC, .NET a plus

Ability to gather requirements, interface with business partners to understand business needs and create technical solutions

Familiarity with Cloud / Azure a plus

Familiar with Daily Standups/Scrums, Sprint Planning, Reviews & Retrospectives, and daily peer code reviews

Proficiency in these areas is important, especially at the senior level and above, where we expect individuals to lead and engage in these agile ceremonies effectively

Problem-solving abilities, effective time management, willingness to learn and seek assistance, openness to daily feedback from multiple perspectives through Pull Request reviews, and the ability to peer review other team members

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Strong self-motivation and organizational skills

Demonstrated ability to context switch between multiple concurrent projects

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to quickly assess a need or problem and assign responsibility and priority

Self-sufficiency and excitement for working in a fast paced, result-driven environment