Lead Software Engineer at Principal Financial Services, Inc.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

20 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

20 Jan, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Java, AWS, Microservices, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Security, Observability, Mentorship, Agile, SQL, CI/CD, OAuth2, Cloud Design, Architecture, Testing, Problem-Solving

Industry

Financial Services

Description

Responsibilities Job Title: Lead Software Engineer – Java & AWS (AWS Primary, Java – Microservices Secondary) Experience: 8+ years Role Overview Seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer (Java & AWS) to design and deliver scalable, secure, and high‑performance systems. Emphasis on technical depth, mentorship, driving projects, and crisp stakeholder communication. Key Responsibilities Architecture & Cloud Design: Collaborate with architects to define service/data architectures, select AWS services/patterns (serverless vs. containers) for scale, resilience, security, and cost. Build & Delivery: Implement Java/Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs, manage API lifecycle (versioning/deprecation), ensure operational readiness and NFRs Quality & Reliability: Establish test strategy (unit/integration/contract/performance), implement resilience patterns and caching, enforce CI quality gates. Security & Compliance: Implement OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, encryption, align to org policy and regulatory standards. Observability & Cost: Implement logs/metrics/traces, alerts, dashboards, design for right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost efficiency. Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor engineers, communicate options/trade-offs/risks clearly with Product and Architecture. Facilitate agile ceremonies : (stand‑ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, retros) with a focus on technical outcomes, risk surfacing, and sprint goal clarity. Refine stories into actionable technical tasks: ensure Definition of Ready/Done, unambiguous acceptance criteria, testability, and accurate story point estimation. Must Have Skills Java - Advanced Java / Java 8+: OOP & SOLID, Streams, Optional, functional interfaces, lambda expressions. Concurrency: Thread pools, Future/CompletableFuture, synchronization, locks, concurrent collections, Java Memory Model, heap/stack, GC insights. Web & API: RESTful design (idempotency, pagination, error models), rate limiting, API gateway concepts, Swagger/OpenAPI. Spring: Spring Core (IoC/DI), Spring MVC, Spring Boot (auto‑config/starter deps), Spring Security (JWT/OAuth2), Spring Batch, Spring AOP. Architecture & Patterns: Event‑driven design (MQ/queueing), patterns—Factory, Builder, Strategy, Template. Data & Testing: Strong SQL, , JUnit 5/Mockito/Testcontainers, contract & performance testing. Tooling & Observability: Maven/Gradle, Git, CI/CD, logs/metrics/traces (OpenTelemetry). AWS - Intermediate Core: Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, ECS/Fargate, monitoring with CloudWatch/X-Ray, auditing with CloudTrail. Security & Networking: IAM (least privilege), KMS, VPC (subnets, SGs/NACLs), Secrets Manager/Parameter Store, basic WAF. IaC & Deployments: AWS CDK (TypeScript preferred) or Terraform/CloudFormation, blue/green, canary, feature flags, zero-downtime deployments. Reliability & Cost: Autoscaling, throttling, DLQs, retries/backoff, cost-aware designs (right-sizing, storage tiers, DynamoDB capacity models). Soft Skills Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and bias for action. Plans, prioritizes, and communicates effectively across teams and time zones. Mentors teammates. Demonstrates ownership, raises the bar, and consistently exceeds day-to-day expectations. Identifies ambiguity/risks and proactively drives clarity and resolution with stakeholders. Qualifications Bachelor's degree (any stream)

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Responsibilities

The Lead Software Engineer will design and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance systems while collaborating with architects and mentoring engineers. Key responsibilities include implementing microservices, establishing test strategies, and ensuring compliance with security standards.