Principal Software Engineer - Casandra & DB2 at Constant Contact in Gainesville, Florida

Job Description:

We have an opening for a Principal Software Engineer to set the technical direction for the team's reporting infrastructure.


The ideal candidate will be technically strong, highly productive, and enjoy collaborating. You've worked on platforms and services that are highly available and scalable. You understand that simple systems are easier to operate and tackle. You value simplicity at scale. You can balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements. You've made life easier for other developers and have motivated team members to make both design and technology improvements with your ability to lead and provide vision. You understand operational quality and how to instill a culture of providing technical leadership in your organization in a collaborative, agile environment. You find anomalies, architectural problems, and technological infrastructure that didn't trip any alarms and help to root cause problems before they become real problems. You can work at all levels of technology, from getting into the code to presenting to large audiences and executives


As a senior member of the Reporting team, you will play a key role in determining the technical vision for the reporting space, as well as helping to communicate that to our product engineering teams. You will also work on enterprise or business unit-wide product features, determining the overall architecture to achieve the features, while working with multiple development teams to determine how they will each plug into the architecture to drive customer value. Finally, you will work with other senior engineers and architects to help the entire team evolve their technical skill set. Being able to communicate at all levels of the organization is critical.



What you'll do:

• Explore new technologies, architect and design end-to-end features and solutions across multiple development teams within the Constant Contact Product Delivery organization


• Support all architectural disciplines and champions architectural initiatives; Develop standards and implementation plans for the enterprise based on business requirements and strategies


• Provide leadership, technology guidance and mentors others; develops, motivates, and directs staff to create a team environment


• Lead technical design activities across multiple teams and ensure all technical hurdles are resolved to help teams deliver high quality product roadmap initiatives


• Be an active developer in the scrum team working with the team on their objectives


• Works with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy through firm data


• Work to modernize our technology stack across multiple teams, languages and technologies

• 12+ years of relevant experience with a focus developing backend solutions


• Sound knowledge of design patterns, principles, distributed architectures, REST API services, data structures and algorithms with emphasis on memory, runtime, quality and scalability


• Proven ability to design and develop future-proof, maintainable, large scale systems


• Expert knowledge of static languages like Java (Spring Boot and/or Micronaut)


• Knowledge of relational databases and large non-relational databases such as Cassandra.


• Experience with unit testing and test driven development in Java and JavaScript


• Experience with modern containers and CI/CD frameworks - Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, ECS, GKE, etc


• Experience working with multiple teams and departments on high level enterprise wide features.


• Have a complete view of the DevSecOps software development lifecycle.  Architecting not only the code, but the pipelines, operations and quality strategy for software


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment; Ability to articulate engineering design strategies related to scalability, performance, security, usability, and development platforms