The Opportunity

We are building the financial operations HUB of the future. Our collective success requires an exacting blend of, technological prowess, deep industry knowledge, customer centricity and a singularly motivated team.

Purpose

Reporting directly to the Architecture Group, the Principal Engineer is considered an individual contributor responsible for delivering product requirements and features end to end.

The Principal Engineer ensures software is written to highest quality in line with HUBs internal standards and reference architecture guidelines. The Principal Engineer works closely with HUBs central Architecture Group to translate requirements into low level implementations.

As the most senior engineering role within the organization, you will hold yourself and others you work with to the highest standards. You will be familiar with multiple technology stacks and comfortable voicing your opinion on critical design decisions regarding Hub’s reference architecture.

Accountabilities

• Ensuring the highest quality of source code, limiting technical debt where possible
• Maintaining a high level of User Story hygiene including estimation and status updates
• Ensuring product requirements are understood and delivered in accordance with your own estimates
• Keeping up to date with the latest technology trends and releases
• Delivering in scenarios where you may not agree with every design decision
• Understanding the pros and cons of complex architecture patterns and translating these into technical implementations
• Mentoring Associate Engineers
• Being curious – never be afraid to ask questions

Deliverables

• Delivery of product features in line with a product roadmap
• Delivery of source code that meets HUBs internal standards and quality rules
• Contribute to, and drive engagement with, an engineering community across all product teams at HUB
• Consistently meet or exceed expectations when evaluated against HUBs core values and technical standards 
• Own your personal development

About you:

• 8+ years writing core Java in any environment (Large Enterprise, SME, or Start-up)
• Experience building high volume, distributed systems
• Familiarity with a multitude of microservice architecture patterns (Sidecar, Ambassador, Anti-corruption layer, Gateway Routing, BFF etc…)
•  Expert with Spring Boot, RESTful APIs and gRPC
• Expert with persistence patterns using JPA, Hibernate and SQL databases
• Extensive experience using modern Java including Streams, Lambda Expressions and Functional Programming
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines with one of: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Familiarity with at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment where iterative development and regular demos are the norm
• A natural problem solver

Must be an expert with 2 of the following:

• Site Reliability Engineering Principles – observability, return to health models, deployment strategies
• Technologies powering Event Driven Systems (Event Buses, Distributed Logs, Kafka)
• Big data & real time analytics particularly with distributed datasets and large volumes in a Data Warehouse
• Stream Processing technologies (Spark, Flink…)
• Experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes as well as docker

Nice to have:

•  Familiar with the concepts of Domain Driven Design (DDD) – Bounded Contexts, Aggregates, Entities, Value Objects, Domain Events, Services, Repositories
• Familiarity with event driven technologies (Kafka, Event Buses etc…)
• Experience with stream processing technologies (Spark, Flink etc...)
• Front end experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, Vue)
• Financial Services domain experience

Qualifications

• Cloud certifications are desirable