Principal Software Engineer

Location: Bengaluru - Unit 3

Management Level

E

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

Capitalising on India’s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK.

The principal engineer role is a senior technical role at the heart of the configuration or development team. With a passion for technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday.

Professional Responsibilities

Ensure you and your Squad adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home

Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products

Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality

Be involved with and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption within your squad as required

Drive optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs

Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed

Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team

Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.

Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately

Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline

Technical Responsibilities

• Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.
• Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security.
• Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

Education and Experience

Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.

Professional Skills and Qualities

Agile Methodologies - Scrum

• Efficiency improvement
• Configuration management
• Release readiness
• Documentation / technical writing
• Process, data, system engineering
• Analytical - business, process, data, system
• Lifecycle management
• Problem solving
• Personal Skills and Qualities
• Emotional intelligence and empathy
• Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism
• Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation
• Active listening and observation
• Continuous learning
• Language and communication
• Creative thinking
• Technical Experience at Expert Level
• Full Stack development

Java, Spring, Oracle, RHEL Linux

BDD, TDD, Cucumber

Jira, Confluence, Git (BitBucket)

REST Services

Database Design

Responsive web design

Dependency Injection

• Data access and persistence
• ORM frameworks
• Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices

Web accessibility standards

Web security principles

SAST and DAST tools

Content Management Systems

Message queuing systems

Application architecture

Containers

Micro Services

Source code control

Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, build pipelines

SQL, PL/SQL, C

OAuth, Identity Server,

Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services

Benefits

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

Business related certification expense reimbursement

Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents

Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift

Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.