Principal, Software Engineer

Salary: Open

Location: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*

**This permanent placement role is not open for C2C, Contract, or Contract to Hire**

Qualifications

• BS degree
• 10+ years software development experience.
• 4+ years of work experience in the capital markets industry
• Java-based software development experience.
• Experience with Flink, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
• Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles.
• Experience with continuous integration tools and techniques, automating processes, and writing scripts using Python and other languages.
• Deep understanding of performance issues and multi-threaded development.
• Proficient in the following types of testing: unit, integration, system, functional, non-functional, regression, performance, security, and acceptance.
• Experience working with five or more of the following: web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, event-driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, security software development, and public-cloud platforms.
• Experience with continuous integration tools and techniques, automating processes, and writing scripts using Python and other languages.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems.
• Continuously thinking about the next steps while improving yourself and others around you.
• Developing solutions to complex technical challenges while coding, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and documenting the systems you develop.
• Recommending technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of company systems and development processes.
• Optimizing application performance through analysis, code refactoring, and system tuning.