Principal Software Engineer
2 days ago
About This Job Opportunity
Our Vision
To be the world's most trusted global payroll partner, simplifying pay for all employees.
Our Mission
Empowering global workforces with seamless, compliant, and innovative payroll and payment solutions, enabling businesses to thrive in a connected world.
Our People
Our fundamental beliefs at CloudPay are built on core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork. We value our employees and strive to create a great workplace where everyone is valued, heard, inspired, and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work. We're committed to providing an excellent employee experience through fulfilling projects, empowerment to make a difference, and an environment that inspires innovation.
What Makes This Role Exciting
The role provides support to Agile Engineering Teams making a critical difference to project success, overall platform technical direction and operational resilience. The Principal Engineer will work as part of the team, primarily in analyzing, designing and implementing solutions on microservices framework.
Main Responsibilities
- Working collaboratively with Agile Teams to understand the business domain and client requirements; drive analysis, architecture/design and development of quality deliverables and technical solutions crossing a broad spectrum of technologies.
- Designing and building solutions in the context of a legacy platform transitioning to microservice architecture.
- Help establish the governance, guiding principles, design patterns, and service templates of microservices development in the Engineering Team
- Champion the standards and guiding principles of microservices development, upholding best practices and relevant industry standards in the team
- Advising Engineering and Product Management on Technical and Architectural policy and strategy.
- Includes selecting and providing guidance on the appropriate design methodology (such as object-oriented, function-oriented, component-based) and strategies to be used within a project.
- Determining design alternatives with trade-off analysis.
- Technical leadership of architectural and engineering initiatives
- Adoption of new technologies
- Identifying and refactoring poor performing or technically inferior areas of the Platform
- Supporting and diagnosing complex platform issues with respect to performance, security, scalability, maintainability and reliability upon deployment
- Facilitating code reviews to ensure the quality of the CloudPay code base adheres to agreed standards; identifying improvements to coding and technical standards
- Coaching more junior engineers on technical strategy, coding standards and daily tasks
Experience Needed For This Role
- Extensive hands-on development experience, minimum of 10years with a strong foundation in OOP and Design Patterns, Clean code and SOLID principles
- Proven experience setting the technical strategy, implementing and tuning enterprise scale applications.
- Strong working knowledge of Java 11, Spring framework or Spring boot, JavaScript, JQuery and RESTful Web-Services
- Spring Boot web, Security, Actuator, AMQP, JPA, batch and mail
- Java 17 working knowledge is an edge
- Demonstrable experience in microservice architecture and design patterns, and implementing microservices
- Experience in Saga design pattern and event-driven microservices
- Experience in RabbitMQ (integration pattern) or any AMQP-based messaging
- Experience working with relational (MySQL/MariaDB) or NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) database management systems and ability to write complex queries.
- Experience in API-driven development
- Experience in application performance tuning and secure coding
- Experience in leveraging containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and developing cloud-native applications
- Comfortable in engaging with a wide range of roles (juniors, seniors, other stakeholders) to collaborate on solutions and communicate technical ideas
The following would be an advantage:
- Experience in , AngularJS, React-Redux,
- Background in Payroll, HR or other financial domains
- Experience in Automation, Workflow Engines, Workflow Process Automation
About You And Our Core Values
- Taking ownership, working with integrity and respect
- Being a team player is key to our culture
- Solution and customer focused
- Great initiative with the goal for excellence in achieving results
- Dedicated to developing and always looking for continuous improvements
- Be creative, be committed, be engaged and enjoy what you do
Philippines Package And Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Competitive vacation allowance
- Calm app
- Sick Leave
- EAP
- Group Life Insurance, HMO
- Employee Referral Program
- De Minimis Benefit
- WFH Allowance
- Mid-Year Bonus
- 13th Month Pay
- Regularization Bonus, 1st Year Anniversary Bonus
- Bereavement Leave
- Paid Volunteering days
- Study Leave
- Marriage Leave
CloudPay is committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
The CloudPay culture is built upon on five core values, from which we develop our service, our technology and our business strategies. Our fundamental beliefs are a promise to our employees, customers and partners, built on the core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork.
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