Job Description

The Principal Engineer is responsible for leading the design and development or major Sage Intacct features. The engineer will provide guidance to other engineers and drive the overall process of development and delivery. The Principal Engineer is responsible for architectural design issues, coding standards, and overall consistency and quality of the final solution.




Principal Engineers will understand the implications of major design decisions and will be responsible for highlighting important or difficult decisions, ensuring that the trade-offs are considered. Where appropriate, a Principal Engineer will propose significant architectural changes at the Architectural Review Board; where appropriate, Principal Engineers will participate in the evaluation of others' proposals.


Major features often involve a deep understanding of the financial and accounting implications of the changes that will result, including the impact on reports and usage.


Sage Intacct is a leader in Small and Medium SaaS Financial product, with a lot of exciting opportunities in modern technologies and applying them to Intacct's scale to solve our customer real world problems. Sage is pioneering the future with AI.


Be a part of our innovative journey and help us shape the next chapter in AI-driven business solutions.




This is a hybrid position - working 3 days a week from our Bangalore office.


Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities:


- Leverage the native API to enable deep integrations


- Lead the High Level/ Low Level Design and development of major features


- Work with Product Management/Architect to understand design and feature trade-offs


- Design scalable and repeatable solutions within each major feature


- Present architectural recommendations to the Architecture Review Board


- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a clear and simplified manner.


- Work with QA to ensure the quality of the features, including the creation and maintenance of test cases


. Co-ordinate with multiple teams to drive a solution


. Proactively take ownership of work, track and report on progress.





Requirements:


- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or related field


- 12+ years software engineering experience


- Experience developing SaaS / Cloud applications


- Deep knowledge of RESTful API design and building secure public APIs.


- Experienced with API design patterns and best practices


- Experienced in applying security, best practices to API development and integrating applications


- Hands-on coding ability in web technologies such as JavaScript, Java, LAMP, or .Net


. Build and integrate with existing Domain Services and Microservices


. Build metrics to measure and monitor issues


- Strong SQL skills and understanding of database/data modeling concepts, experience with Oracle and MongoDB is a plus


- Experience as a team leader and technical lead


- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to engineering groups


- Strong analysis, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills


- Working experience in PHP (preferred)


- Working experience in Kafka, Snowflake (preferred)


- Knowledge of Agile and Scrum (preferred)




What's in it for you?


- An exciting challenge in an innovative and growing company that values your skills and ideas.


- A motivated team that places great value on teamwork at work.


- Attractive Salary package (salary + performance bonus)


- Ongoing training and professional development


- Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation


- Flexible work patterns and hybrid working.



Function

Product Delivery


Country

India


Office Location

Bangalore


Work Place type

Hybrid


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