Senior Principal Software Engineer

Job Overview

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer within the Product organization, you will be responsible for solving most complex and challenging technical problems, and unlock delivery of value for services that power the PitchBook platform. You will be essential in applying your broad and deep experience in technology, problem solving abilities and ability to conduct hands on solution exploration and experimentation to guide technical teams, and enable them to build and release exceptional solutions relied upon and used by thousands of PitchBook customers every day; you will work with PitchBook professionals around the world with the collective goal of delighting our customers and growing our business. The teams will rely on your broad and deep experience in building and delivering comprehensive cloud solutions, and lean on your expertise in trade-off analysis and ability to identify options for the problems to solve and validate the right architecture and design with hands on. With your strong analytical skills, you’ll be able to break down abstract and complex problems into smaller problems and apply Domain Driven Design approaches such as identifying bounded contexts and establish decomposition process. You will be expected to devise solutions based on limited information and precedent to find creative ways to tackle challenges. It is essential that you will be able to interpret, assess and resolve a wide range of issues and be able to select the right course of action. You will collaborate with the PitchBook Architecture Team, as well as many internal stakeholders of different roles, backgrounds, who may have varying degrees of understanding of the domain. You may need to adapt your style of communication based on the audience you are interacting with and will be relied on to influence decisions to build optimal solutions to complex challenges. Additionally, as a technical expert in a broad set of domains, you will be expected to engage actively in promoting architecture guidelines, principles, and practices across team(s), and be a driver for consistency and alignment for cross cutting concerns. Lastly, you exhibit a growth mindset, willing to solicit feedback, engage others with empathy, and help create a culture of belonging, teamwork, and purpose. If you love building customer-centric solutions, strive for excellence every day, are adaptable and focused, and believe work should be fun, come join us!

Team Overview

The Senior Principal Software Engineer will report in the PitchBook Architecture team and engage with multiple product teams over time, focusing on strategic initiatives; PitchBook is embracing the Team Topology and StreamAligned Teams structure, this role will engage across stream aligned teams, Platform Team, Enabling Team(s), and Complex Subsystems teams. You will also be actively engaging with the PitchBook Architecture function and the Software Development Engineers community.

Outline of Duties and Responsibilities

• Hands-on development will be a large part of the responsibilities.
• Quickly learn and trial hands on new technology, assess and validate assumptions, identify flows or risks that support the technical directions.
• Ensure qualities/non-functional requirements of the platforms and products are defined, measurable and are continuously evaluated to deliver the right product to our users.
• Document technical designs, communicate, elaborate with architects and other teams.
• Implement well-designed, testable, and efficient code that meets product requirements, coding standards, performance, scalability, reliability, and the organization’s goals and principles, which can be used as reference implementation by other teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and other internal stakeholders in an Agile environment.
• Provide technical guidance with different team members.
• Design and deliver on end-to-end initiatives with little to no guidance.
• Define and participate in processes that improve products using return on experience, root cause analysis of incidents.
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors.
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested.

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field.
• Minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in Software Development or Engineering roles.
• 6+ years of experience with Java or a similar object-oriented language.
• 4+ years of experience developing micro service.
• Experienced in Service-Oriented & Microservices Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Domain Driven Design (DDD), Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, Domain Driven Design.
• Fluent in identifying and applying architecture patterns, designing RESTful API.
• Have worked on middleware, platform, or system of systems.
• Experienced with web technologies and standards (e.g., JSON, JWT).
• Experienced with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experienced in Spring Boot/Spring Framework.
• Experienced with Container orchestration software (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Highly experienced working within development teams in an Agile environment.
• Ability to handle a project through the entire software development lifecycle, end to end.
• Demonstrate ability to lead and/or provide guidance to junior peers across multiple teams.
• Excellent technical communication skills, written and verbal.
• Demonstrated strong problem-solving ability.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite including in-depth knowledge of Outlook, Word and Excel with the ability to pick up new systems and software easily.

Working Conditions

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events. This employee will work in a standard office setting. Some flexibility with work-from-home is a possibility. Employees in this position use a computer on an ongoing basis throughout the day.