Principal Software Engineer at Impact

Why this role is exciting: 

Exciting opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer to join the market leader in Partnership Automation in a player-coach capacity. 

You will join our Agile/Scrum team and will be expected to mentor & lead team members when required, investigate & learn new technologies, and sign off on code reviews. This is a coding position and the ideal hire will be expected to learn deficiencies, contribute to the Impact Engineering organisation, and champion best practices. 

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain software for Impact's platform
• Build meaningful unit, functional, and integration level tests for the software built
• Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives
• Keeps technically abreast of trends and advancements within area of specialisation, incorporating these improvements where applicable
• Review business needs, requirements, technical specifications
• Write and maintain design, user, and test documentation
• Respond to alerts, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner
• Perform triage functionality through verification and fixing of bugs
• Build operator tools to make employees more productive/ effective
• Deliver software solutions on the Impact platform
• Participate in code reviews, apply feedback, and ask for clarity on ambiguous feedback
• Perform code reviews and provide clear feedback to peers
• Document solutions to ensure future supportabilit

Does this sound like you?

• Computer Science qualification
• Languages: Extensive Java programming or comparable OOP experience
• Problem Solving: Can solve problems independently
• Design Patterns: Can effectively select and implement the right design pattern to solve a problem
• Code Quality: Experience implementing integration tests and unit tests. Comfortable working with CI
• Libraries: Confident using existing frameworks
• Cloud: Implement stories on existing cloud infrastructure and services
• Delivery Management: Independently implement the agreed design to spec. Escalate appropriately
• Business Domain: Understanding the business requirements of all stories in the sprint
• Mentoring: Help team members with implementation