Principal Application Software Engineer

Description

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will work with Product/Design during the design phase, author a technical approach to building the features, and breakdown, refine, and deliver the work with your team. The ideal candidate will be passionate, self-motivated, able to multitask effectively, and have strong communication skills. This individual will be autonomous and be expected to contribute to a wide range of high-impact projects across the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console. Daily tasks include microservices and frontend development, testing, CI/CD, participating in scrum activities, and collaboration with Support, Product Management, and other Service Teams.

Technical Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related fields or equivalent experience

• 8+ years of experience in full stack software development

• Has used AI tooling like Claude or Codex to develop, test and debug code

• Experience building interfaces, including JSON REST APIs, GraphQL

• Experience in web markup, including HTML5, CSS3

• Experience in front-end scripting, including Javascript, Typescript, ReactJS, KnockoutJS

• Expert in multiple languages, including Java, Node.js, C++, Python

• Expert in microservices frameworks such as Spring, Micronaut

• Experience with container-based deployment like Docker, Kubernetes

• Additional skill in one or more of Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis

• Experience with test frameworks like Postman/Newman, Junit, Enzym, Jest, Karma, Mocha, Chai, Puppeteer

• Experience with distributed source control, including GIT

• Experience with build tools such as Gradle, Maven, Webpack, Npm, Yarn

• Experience with continuous deployment tools like Teamcity, Jenkins

• Working experience within a Linux-based environment

• Familiarity with log analysis tools and debugging tools

Functional Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with a public cloud platform like AWS, Azure, Oracle

• Experience developing distributed, fault-tolerant applications

• Experience with Agile Methodologies, specifically Scrum

• Experience using ticket tracking systems such as JIRA

• Ability to translate wireframes into prototypes and production-read interfaces

• Ability to quickly pick up new languages and technologies

• Self-driven, able to work independently on a project even while the design is evolving

• Strong desire to stay on top of new technologies and services

• Passionate about learning

• Strong communication skills, including cross-team collaboration

• Ability to deliver basic functionality and iterate

• Experience working with geographically distributed teams

• Experience in the healthcare industry and clinical applications is a plus

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Application Software Development:

• Drives feature development within an application.

• Provides global production support to cloud-based applications as needed for critical issues by applying a working knowledge of at least one specialty area.

• Troubleshoots and debugs routine and non-routine Oracle applications services and Oracle Cloud infrastructure, end-user application integrations, or acquisitions.

• Partners across QA and engineering teams to discuss changes impacting an application's functionality and ensures quality and consistency across specific applications.

• Considers designs of the existing software architecture when developing code for applications.

• Translates requirements and features into a structured, scalable, maintainable, and performant code plan for an application.

• Contributes to establishing the dependencies (e.g., API) associated with the functionality of an application.

• Discusses application requirements with the customer while considering scalability and reliability, and recommends build priorities within teams and defines build priorities within team.

• References and shares other sources of feedback (e.g., online forums, live site maintenance reports) to refine application requirements.

• Collaborates with Designers, Product Managers, Software Engineers, and stakeholders when evaluating and integrating customer specifications and business requirements.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

• Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.

• Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.

• Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.

• Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.

• Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.

• Develops fixes for identified issues.

• Implements comprehensive software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, sharing work with manager and/or lead upon completion.

• Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.

• Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration. Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

• Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion. Recommends project or design scope.

• Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.

• Contributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.

• Collaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns with software architecture.

• Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.

• Occasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.

• May provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues.

• Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.

• Provides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.

• Identifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.

• Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad-reaching/scoped maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

• Collaborates with the team and externally to follow development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.

• Participates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development, independently.

• Demonstrates and shares advanced knowledge of industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.

• Implements complex secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

• Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results with manager upon completion.

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