Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Key Responsibilities:-

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering collaboration, growth, and technical excellence.
• Guide the team in defining and implementing best practices for coding, architecture, and processes.
• Collaborate across multiple scientific and engineering disciplines, making the architectural tradeoffs required to rapidly deliver software solutions.
• Architect scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems.
• Participate in hiring and onboarding processes to build a strong, balanced team.
• Contribute to ongoing improvement of programming processes and methodology
• Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of large datasets, data lakes, ETLs and message queue systems.
• Drive the successful delivery of projects, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met.
• Collaborate with operations and infrastructure, quality assurance, or other technical teams to ensure end-to-end delivery of features
• Work closely with Product Owners, data engineers, and SRE teams to align technical efforts with business goals.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and evaluate their potential application.
• Drive innovation by identifying opportunities for technical improvement and automation.

Qualification & Experience:-

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field with 10+ years’ experience in software engineering and 2+ years in a technical leadership or similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience API Development, Backend Development and performance optimization.
• Proficiency in Golang and/or Python.
• Extensive experience with backend development, including RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Deep understanding of ETL pipelines, processing large-scale datasets, and ensuring data integrity.
• Expertise with message queues (e.g., Kafka).
• Strong knowledge of big data ecosystems (e.g., Trino, Spark, Elasticsearch) and distributed systems.
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases, designing database schemas, and queries optimization.
• Solid understanding of Agile development methodology with multiple years of direct involvement
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices
• Bonus: Experience in creating or working closely with cyber security solutions.