About the Role
Esko, a Veralto company, is a global provider of integrated software and hardware solutions that accelerate the go-to-market process of packaged goods. Our products empower teams to support and manage the packaging design and print processes for brand owners, retailers, pre-media and trade shops, manufacturers, and converters, providing an innovative, integrated platform and comprehensive portfolio of tools that digitize, connect, automate, and accelerate the concept-to-market processes for every packaged product.
The Principal Software Engineer will be responsible for technical strategy, designs organization-wide architecture, and multiplies the effectiveness of entire engineering teams rather than just writing individual code.
Responsibilities and Key Activities
•System Architecture: Design complex, scalable systems and define long-term technical roadmaps that span multiple teams or departments.
•Technical Leadership: Act as a force multiplier by unblocking teams, resolving deep ambiguities, and establishing coding and testing standards.
•Mentorship: Coach senior and junior engineers to raise the technical capability of the organization.
•Strategic Alignment: Bridge the gap between technical execution and business goals by consulting with stakeholders and upper management.
•Build and maintain advanced software applications following industry standards.
•Implement security best practices for Web Applications, ensuring robust protection and adherence to industry standards throughout the software development lifecycle.
•Design software architecture and provide technical guidance to the Backend Development Team, ensuring advanced applications are built and maintained in line with industry standards.
•Explore and implement the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including its influence on requirements gathering, coding, testing, and deployment processes, while ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.
•Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, analyse user needs, and translate them into technical solutions.
•Write and maintain technical documentation, including design documents, user manuals, and release notes.
•Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging activities to ensure software quality and performance.
•Research and stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, tools, algorithms, and best practices in software development.
•Ensure compliance with software development processes, standards, and security protocols.
•Serve as SME in all the layers of the product technical stack.
•Provide clear inputs and plan for the technical debts in various related products and take it to completion.
•Focus on organizational business needs and not just technology aspects.
•Drive critical organizational initiatives on Innovation and strategic objectives.
Required Qualifications
•Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
•12+ years of experience in software development with expertise in programming languages Java and JavaScript.
•Strong understanding of software development methodologies, design patterns, system architecture, and industry best practices.
•Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers, provide technical leadership, and drive best engineering practices within the team.
•Substantial experience with implementing algorithms, ideally optimization problems or other challenging problem domains involving some amount of non-determinism.
•Strong experience in designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs, including secure, scalable, and well-documented services.
•Proven expertise in Spring Framework, including Spring Boot and Java Script Framework, for building enterprise-grade, microservices-based, and cloud-ready applications.
•Good knowledge of and hands-on experience with C++.
•Good knowledge of and hands-on experience with AI integration across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
•Good knowledge of software development methodologies, design patterns, and best practices.
•Experience with AWS Kibana, Elasticsearch, Lambda, S3, and EC2.
•Experience with modern web development frameworks and libraries such as React, Marionette, or similar JavaScript frameworks.
•Strong understanding of database design and development with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
•Hands-on experience with Agile and DevOps tools such as JIRA, GitHub, or similar tooling.
•Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills, with a proactive, self-initiated approach to learning new technologies.
•Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
•Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, including ability to understand advanced technical documentation.
•Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, APIs, frameworks, and tools.
•Flexibility and willingness to work across multiple technology stacks; a technology-agnostic mindset is a strong advantage.
Desired Qualifications
•AI/ML knowledge is highly desirable and considered an added value.
•Direct experience with AWS Kibana, Elasticsearch, Lambda, S3, and EC2.
Desired Characteristics (to be evaluated during interview)
•A technical mindset with great attention to detail.
•Relates well to a wide spectrum of people across multi-geographic scrum teams. Embraces cross-cultural agility.
•Flexible, willing to "go the extra mile" while at the same time being an agile and fast learner.
•Result oriented with strong self-management skills.
•Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment.
•Able to stay calm, friendly, a team player, and able to demonstrate good composure when handling complicated problems.
•High level of ownership.
•Strong algorithmic and analytical skills and self-initiative to learn new methodologies and techniques.
•Effective and clear communicator, asking the right questions, actively listening, and able to collect the right inputs.
Reporting and Ownership
•Reports to Engineering Manager.
About the Company
Esko is proud to be a Product Quality & Innovation company in Veralto (NYSE: VLTO). Veralto is a $5B global leader in essential technology solutions made up of over 16,000 associates across its Water Quality and Product Identification segments, united by the purpose of safeguarding the world's most vital resources.
