Who You Are:
As a Principal Data Engineer, you will architect, develop, and manage robust data pipelines and a scalable data fabric infrastructure. This role demands expertise in coding with Java and leveraging Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming amongst other technologies. You will collaborate closely with AI and machine learning teams, ensuring seamless data flow and integration across our data infrastructure. Your strategic foresight and deep technical expertise have enabled you to lead significant modernization initiatives, bringing experience for leveraging new technologies such as a graph database into an organization.
What You Will Do:
- Lead the architectural data fabric vision and strategy across Formstack, ensuring alignment with our business goals and customer needs.
- Design, implement, and optimize complex data pipelines.
- Develop and maintain data fabric solutions to unify data management.
- Integrate Kafka-based streaming solutions to support real-time data needs.
- Collaborate with AI teams to align data strategies with machine learning models.
- Ensure data security, governance, and compliance within the infrastructure.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best practices and coding standards.
- Conduct research and evaluate new technologies, making strategic decisions on build-versus-buy and integration scenarios to enhance our product offerings.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define technical standards, guidelines, and processes that support business objectives.
How You Will Succeed:
- By articulating and advancing a clear vision for the future of data pipeline and data fabric architecture at Formstack and then driving the clear implementation and delivery of the same
- By championing best practices in software development and architecture, with a keen focus on scalability, security, and performance, to maintain technical excellence across all projects.
- Through exceptional leadership and effective collaboration with both technology teams and business stakeholders, creating a culture that prioritizes innovation, growth, continuous improvement, and shared success.
- Mentoring and fostering the development of more junior engineering team members, encouraging their professional growth and career wealth. Ensuring the team remains at the cutting edge of technology trends and best practices.
What We Are Looking For:
- 15+ years of hands-on experience in software development, systems integration, and enterprise architecture, with a proven track record of delivering critical data solutions.
- Extensive experience with cloud technologies (AWS/GCP/Azure), application and solution architecture, Agile methodologies, and building scalable distributed systems.
- A deep understanding of software development concepts, including microservices, API-first strategies, and resilient application design.
- Extensive experience in Java programming, Kafka, and graph databases.
- Strong background in data engineering, with a focus on data pipeline and fabric architecture.
- Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure and big data technologies.
- Excellent problem solving, communication and stakeholder management skills (both written and spoken).
- Must be fluent in written and spoken English.
Top Skills
What We Do
Formstack is a secure workplace productivity platform built to produce ingenious solutions to the everyday work that slow organizations down. From eliminating paper forms to breaking digital silos, Formstack empowers anyone to quickly and easily build custom forms, create documents, and collect eSignatures—all without any specialized skills or coding.
Launched in 2006, Formstack is trusted by more than 25,000 organizations worldwide, including Cleveland Clinic, NHL, Netflix, Twitter, and Butler University, to digitize information, automate workflows and transform processes.
Since its founding, Formstack has focused on fostering a strong, remote-first company culture. The company was named to Inc.’s 2020 Best Workplaces, 2019 Indiana Breakout Tech Culture Awards Winner (Top-Rated Workplace), Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 Best Places to Work (for the fourth consecutive year), Built in Colorado's 2019 Best Places to Work in Colorado, and 2017 TechPoint Mira Awards Finalist (Company Culture of the Year).
The company has also experienced tremendous growth, recognized numerous years on the Inc. 5000 List and the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) Fast 25, and Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC 2018 Industry Awards (New Business of the Year).
Learn more at https://www.formstack.com.
