Principal Software Engineer

Who we are

Build a brighter future while learning and growing with a Siemens company at the intersection of technology, community and sustainability. Our global team of innovators is always looking to create meaningful solutions to some of the toughest challenges facing our world. Find out how far your passion can take you.

About The Job

Brightly continues to grow and needs amazing engineers.  This is an excellent fit for talented engineers who thrive in a fast-paced environment.  New hires will work alongside our top-notch engineers and product team to design, implement, deliver and support our highly ambitious products and integrations.  We care deeply about your passion and dedication to the craft of software.

The Principal Software Engineer (Automation) supports the application platforms in the Engineering department. The work managed is critical to overall program success, with aggressive timelines that are critical to the success of the company with direct impacts on our customers. This role builds and conveys deep SME knowledge and provides leadership for performance engineering support. This position reports to the Testing Center of Excellence.

What you will do

• Drive and own end-to-end delivery of innovative and performant features into our next-generation software applications. Inspire a team of engineers to apply deep knowledge of computer science & programming principles into innovative solutions.
• Inspire and guide engineers to design, implement, document libraries and frameworks that allow us to effectively scale development on our applications across multiple projects as common services or components, leveraged by multiple products, calibrating scope, time, cost & quality constraints. Build and track quality into agile product lifecycle encompassing requirements, design, code, testing, delivery, support. Socialize a culture of quality across business verticals and departments.
• Guide and mentor engineers on clear maintainable full-stack code, working in a professional software engineering environment (source control, shortened release cycles, continuous integration and deployment, etc.).
• As a member of an agile team, write new feature code or new test automation frameworks based upon business needs.
• Monitor company goals and metrics, recommend course correction to teams as needed, help keep program delivery on track.
• Participate cross-functionally in portfolio & product planning sessions as an engineering visionary with a focus on the horizon. Own assigned areas/services/components of products as the technical guru.
• Support our products, enable teams to identify and fix root causes of production incidents, own the long-term closure of major incidents.
• Own product quality and work to quickly address production defects.
• Embed a DevOps mentality within the team.
• Apply and influence data-driven analysis and pragmatic decision making aligned with business and technology needs. Follow-up on immediate deliveries with long-term solutions.
• Partner in build vs buys vs partner decisions, vendor selection, technology selection, cloud strategy, M&A analysis, KPI establishment, technology roadmaps, project tracking, business case rationalization.
• Serve as a technical lead for teams as needed or special purpose projects per business priority.
• Instill a culture of constant learning and staying relevant with trends in technology across engineers and management.
• Influence architects, senior engineering, and product management to measure, track and iterate continuous improvement processes across engineering discipline, impacting success across the agile delivery organization globally.
• Present operational status to management from an engineering operations level and advise back to engineers on calibration at team level practices. Welcome, change and complexity.  Learn quickly and adapt fast.  Be a change leader!

Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html . The pay range for this position is and the annual incentive target is of the base salary. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications and premium geographic location.

What you need

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline; or equivalent additional work experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience
• Design patterns and practices, data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, databases, SQL, web programming, SOLID principles, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Prior experience in agile implemented at scale across multiple teams globally
• 5+ years’ web development, JS frameworks, UI/UX technologies
• 7+ years’ REST services, SOA, micro-services
• 7+ years’ unit testing, mocking frameworks, automation frameworks
• DevOps mindset – 5+ years' experience in a mature CI/CD SDLC environment, implemented exception handling, logging, monitoring, performance measurement, operational metrics knowledge
• 3+ years' experience working in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Strong communication , partnership, teamwork, and influencing skills are required . Ability to communicate with and present to engineers, senior management & relevant stakeholders
• Led multiple teams in a global delivery, agile, CI/CD, metrics-based setting

Technologies

• .NET Framework and .NET Core
• ASP.NET MVC and Web API
• Entity Framework
• C#
• SQL Server , PostgreSQL
• SAML, Auth0, Identity
• Visual Studio and VS Code
• VueJS and Bootstrap
• WebDriverIO , Specflow , Cypress , Reqnroll
• Xamarin , MAUI Mobile framework
• Continuous Integration and Delivery via Jenkins
• Test Automation using a combination of NUnit , Node.js, and Protractor

What makes you a Standout

• Open-source contribution, repositories, personal projects
• Experience with test automation frameworks like Selenium, Cypress , Reqnroll
• Participation in communities of interest, meetups
• Certifications in technology, agile methodologies
• Prior experience in agile implemented at scale across multiple teams globally
• M&A Integration experience

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