Principal Software Engineer - Java

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Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
Expert/Leader
HR Tech • Payments • Software • Financial Services
The Role
The Principal Software Engineer will lead software development, ensure high-quality delivery, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement in a SaaS environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

Management Level

E

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.  

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

Capitalising on India’s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK.

The principal engineer role is a senior technical role at the heart of the configuration or development team. With a passion for technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday.

Professional Responsibilities

  • Ensure you and your Squad adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home 
  • Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products 
  • Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality 
  • Be involved with and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption within your squad as required  
  • Drive optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs 
  • Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed 
  • Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team 
  • Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc. 
  • Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately  
  • Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline 

Technical Responsibilities

  • Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. 
  • Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. 
  • Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. 
  • Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development. 

Education and Experience 

  • Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc. 

Professional Skills and Qualities 

  • Agile Methodologies - Scrum 
  • Efficiency improvement 
  • Configuration management 
  • Release readiness 
  • Documentation / technical writing 
  • Process, data, system engineering 
  • Analytical - business, process, data, system 
  • Lifecycle management 
  • Problem solving 

Personal Skills and Qualities 

  • Emotional intelligence and empathy 
  • Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism 
  • Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation 
  • Active listening and observation 
  • Continuous learning 
  • Language and communication 
  • Creative thinking

Technical Experience at Expert Level 

  • Full Stack development
  • Java, Spring, Oracle, RHEL Linux
  • BDD, TDD, Cucumber
  • Jira, Confluence, Git (BitBucket)
  • REST Services
  • Database Design
  • Responsive web design
  • Dependency Injection
  • Data access and persistence
  • ORM frameworks
  • Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices
  • Web accessibility standards
  • Web security principles
  • SAST and DAST tools
  • Content Management Systems
  • Message queuing systems
  • Application architecture
  • Containers
  • Micro Services
  • Source code control
  • Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, build pipelines
  • SQL, PL/SQL, C
  • OAuth, Identity Server, 
  • Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services

Benefits:

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

  • Business related certification expense reimbursement
  • Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents
  • Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift
  • Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC

    We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.

    Top Skills

    Amazon Web Services
    Azure Cloud Platform
    Bdd
    C
    Confluence
    Cucumber
    Git
    Java
    JIRA
    Oracle
    Pl/Sql
    Rest Services
    Rhel Linux
    Spring
    SQL
    Tdd
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    The Company
    Birmingham
    4,092 Employees
    On-site Workplace

    What We Do

    Our people and platforms engage customers with investments, connect businesses with markets, and enable organisations to grow.

    Our vision is to be a leading global share registrar and transfer agent, offering complementary services in pensions and remediation, to help our customers succeed.

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