Job Description

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Summary:
The Principal Software Engineer sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. The Rocket Software App Mod group has multiple products including B2Bi, MultiValue Database as well as many other core technology applications. B2B and Supply Chain business specializes in B2B Integration, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Supplier Management, and Supplier Collaboration among other things. The technologies are deployed as multi-tenant, global-scale, SaaS Managed Services as well as in the Enterprise.

You will be expected to work in a fast-paced environment where you will bring your deep technical expertise to successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously. Your ability to collaborate effectively with other Rocketeers across geographies and technologies will be vital to retaining our solutions as the premier technology in the industry. Apply for this exciting opportunity to grow professionally as a part of a dynamic team that continues to grow this business!
Job Overview:
The Principal Software Engineer sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. The Rocket Software App Mod group has multiple products including B2Bi, MultiValue Database as well as many other core technology applications. B2B and Supply Chain business specializes in B2B Integration, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Supplier Management, and Supplier Collaboration among other things. The technologies are deployed as multi-tenant, global-scale, SaaS Managed Services as well as in the Enterprise.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Acts as the subject matter expert in multiple product domains
• Responsible for one or more products
• Synthesizes multiple internal and external sources of input into product requirements
• Advises about requirements impact on key aspects of product and business and makes a corrective recommendation
• Guides and reviews testing strategy
• Documents and communicates on complex technical topics across the company
• Works well with all groups involved in the software development process to influence code and design to consider downstream implications for code
• Provides thought leadership and innovation within a technical domain
• Regularly puts forth ideas and implements them into the product
• Identifies, socializes and drives improvements having an impact across teams
• Knows how to innovate and refactor complex codebases in practical ways
• Able to select optimal data structures and algorithms to attain the best overall solution in respect to performance, reliability and security considerations
• Capable of architecting application modules
• Provides forward-thinking design to leverage platform in novel and optimal ways
• Actively participates in scoping features, developing work estimates, and plans for the team
• Works with software architects and product owners to ensure backlogs are populated and kept updated
• Works effectively with all stakeholders across all functions
• Communicates effectively across the organization, including with the leadership team
• Able to manage multiple competing priorities while remaining cool and collected
• Shows a sense of urgency while instilling confidence in other team members
• Excellent rapid prototyping skills, and produces high-quality code
• Acts as the technical subject matter expert across product domains

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 15+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; 13 years and a Master’s degree;
• 
  or a Ph.D. with 10 years of experience; or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience in designing and deploying secure, scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, cost-efficient solutions in AWS public cloud
• Conversant with AWS Managed Services such as Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Fargate, Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK), Relational Database Service (RDS), Elastic File Systems (EFS), Elasticsearch Service, EC2 instances, Simple Storage Service (S3), WAF, Route 53, VPC, VPC Peering
• Familiar with creating CI/CD pipelines for public cloud deployments
• Proven experience in working with cloud-native & multi-tenant deployments in the public cloud
• Strong experience with document databases such as MongoDB and/or search engines such as Elasticsearch
• Excellent designing and coding skills in programming language/script of choice – Node.js or Java
• Ability to write clean, concise, understandable code
• Experience in REST API & JSON documents
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Proficient understanding and experience of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Fluency in the English language, both written and spoken excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills to deal professionally and collaboratively with all levels of the organization and across geographies

Additional Qualifications:

• 
  Agile development methodologies
• Writes code faster than the average developer.
• Outstanding quality with few bugs in generated code.
• Experience with fully Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment e.g. Jenkins

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IS, or related technical discipline
• Advanced degree, such as Master’s in Computer Science, preferred

Travel Requirements:
Job Family Group: Engineering
Job Family: Software & Quality Assurance Engineering
Job Profile Name: Principal Software Engineer
Employee Type: Individual Contributor
Job Level: P5 (Expert)
Position Reports to: Manager, Software Engineering
Rocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Rocket is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please call: 781-577-4321 or send an email to people@rocketsoftware.com. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.
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