Principal Software Engineer

A career that’s the whole package!

At Conga, we’ve built a community where our colleagues can thrive. Here you’ll find opportunities to innovate, support for growth through individual and team development, and an environment where all voices can be heard.

Conga crushes complexity within an increasingly complex world. With our revenue lifecycle management solution, we transform your unique complexities for order configuration, execution, fulfillment, and contract renewal processes with a single critical insights data model that adapts to ever-changing business requirements and aligns the understanding and efforts of every team.

Our mission: Empower customers to deliver transformational revenue growth by aligning teams, processes, and technology to maximize customer lifetime value.

Our approach is grounded in the Conga Way, a framework for what we stand for and everything we do as an organization — from hiring to decision making and product development. Developed with direct input from our colleagues, the Conga Way is the foundation for our culture.

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer

Locations: Pune, Ahmedabad, Bangalore

Reports to: Sr. Dir, Software Development Engineering

A quick snapshot…

We are looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer-UI to help us build the next-gen Conga products and help lead the platform-level design, development, and implementation of critical business enterprise applications. You will help the team Influence, develop and code the design system, UI patterns ensuring usability, aesthetic standards, and brand integrity, working closely with the UX team. You will have and understanding of end-to-end user experience and consistency across product design and development.

Why it’s a big deal…

As a Principal Software Engineer with strong React or other JS Frameworks knowledge and front-end development skills, you will have the opportunity to build innovative, high-performance web applications and design systems. The ideal candidate possesses deep front-end development expertise, driving technical excellence and mentoring junior developers while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional user experiences. You should be able to support the lead Architect and team with strategic directions.

You will work collaboratively with the team and mentor your peers, explaining your designs, code, and testing with clarity that elevates everyone in our organization. This collaborative approach ensures that Conga’s code is not just high-quality, but a benchmark for excellence in the industry.

Operating at the Principal Engineer level, you will play a pivotal role in the entire department by driving meaningful change across teams. Your expertise and leadership will be instrumental in shaping the future of our products and the success of our team.

Are you the person we’re looking for?

Related experience. You should have more than 7+ years of experience in UI development and a deep understanding of the browser ecosystem and its inner workings.

Front-end Technologies. Design, develop, and maintain complex web applications using React or other JS Framework, ensuring adherence to modern development standards and understand how to use and code design systems. You should have expert knowledge of Front-End development technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, JS Frameworks (Angular, React), CSS abstraction (Less, SASS), package bundlers (webpack).

Web Technology Stack. Understand the web technology stack and have expert knowledge of Front-End development technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, JS Frameworks (Angular, react etc.), CSS abstraction (Less, SASS etc.), package bundlers (Webpack etc) and task runners (Grunt/Gulp etc.) and professional best practices for Software Development Life Cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous integration, build processes, testing, and operations. Rock solid grip on JavaScript. Fluent in the applicability of object-oriented design patterns.

Education. A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline.

Soft skills. Mentor and support junior and mid-level developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Experience in communicating clearly with users, peer teams and project management. Superior problem-solving and coding ability in multiple programming languages. Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure alignment with best practices. Identify performance bottlenecks and implement solutions to enhance application efficiency.

Innovation. Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, driving innovation within the team.

Documentation. Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for architectural designs, coding standards, and development processes.

Differentiating Skills. Have you worked on multiple web app frameworks and created reusable libraries/frameworks? Familiar with functional programming practices. Experience with creating visual editing tools. Understanding of Web Component technology. Have experience with Python, C# etc. Prior experience with Salesforce PaaS and CRM.

Did we pique your interest?

If this sounds like the kind of job you would love in the kind of environment where you would thrive, please click apply. We'd love to hear from you!

Don’t meet every requirement for the role?

Studies have shown that women and members of ethnic minorities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Conga we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You just might be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Additional Information

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