Principal Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Are you…

Interested in working for an international and diverse company?

Interested in developing your career in a leading packaging and printing industry?

Looking for a friendly and supporting team?

If so, read on!

Esko, a Veralto company, is a global provider of integrated software and hardware solutions that accelerate the go-to-market process of packaged goods. Our products empower teams to support and manage the packaging design and print processes for brand owners, retailers, pre-media and trade shops, manufacturers, and converters to provide the most innovative, integrated platform and comprehensive portfolio of tools that intelligently digitize, connect, automate, and accelerate the concept to market processes for every packaged product.

You will be part of a flexible, family friendly organization that cares about its people just as it cares about the environment.

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

The Principal Software Engineer - The Engineer will be responsible for technical strategy, designs organization-wide architecture, and multiplies the effectiveness of entire engineering teams rather than just writing individual code.

Responsibilities and Key Activities

System Architecture: Design complex, scalable systems and define long-term technical roadmaps that span multiple teams or departments.

Technical Leadership: Act as a force multiplier by unblocking teams, resolving deep ambiguities, and establishing coding and testing standards

Mentorship: Coach senior and junior engineers to raise the technical capability of the organization

Strategic Alignment: Bridge the gap between technical execution and business goals by consulting with stakeholders and upper management

Build and maintain advanced software applications following industry standards.

Implementing security best practices for Web Applications, ensuring robust protection and adherence to industry standards throughout the software development lifecycle.

Design software architecture and provide technical guidance to the Backend Development Team, ensuring advanced applications are built and maintained in line with industry standards.

Explore and implement the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including its influence on requirements gathering, coding, testing, and deployment processes, while ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, analyse user needs, and translate them into technical solutions.

Write and maintain technical documentation, including design documents, user manuals, and release notes.

Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging activities to ensure software quality and performance.

Research and stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, tools, algorithms, and best practices in software development.

Ensure compliance with software development processes, standards, and security protocols

SME in all the layers of the product technical stack

Provide clear inputs and plan for the technical debts in various related products and take it to completion

Focus on organizational business needs and not just technology aspects

Drives critical organizational initiatives on Innovation and strategic objectives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in software development with expertise in programming languages Java and JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, design patterns, system architecture, and industry best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers, provide technical leadership, and drive best engineering practices within the team.
• Substantial experience with implementing algorithms, ideally optimization problems or other challenging problem domains involving some amount of non-determinism
• Strong experience in designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs, including secure, scalable, and well-documented services.
• Proven expertise in Spring Framework, including Spring Boot and Java Script Framework, for building enterprise-grade, microservices-based, and cloud-ready applications.
• Good knowledge of and hands-on experience with C++.
• Good knowledge of and hands-on experience with AI integration across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Good knowledge of software development methodologies, design patterns, and best practices.
• Experience with AWS Kibana, Elasticsearch, Lambda, S3, and EC2.
• Experience with modern web development frameworks and libraries such as React, Marionette, or similar JavaScript frameworks.
• Strong understanding of database design and development with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with Agile and DevOps tools such as JIRA, GitHub, or similar tooling.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills, with a proactive, self-initiated approach to learning new technologies.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, including ability to understand advanced technical documentation
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, APIs, frameworks, and tools.
• Flexibility and willingness to work across multiple technology stacks a technology-agnostic mindset is a strong advantage.

Desired Qualifications

AI/ML knowledge is highly desirable and considered an added value.

Direct experience with AWS Kibana, Elasticsearch, Lambda, S3, and EC2.

Desired characteristics – to be evaluated during interview

A technical mindset with great attention to detail

Relates well to a wide spectrum of people across multi-geographic scrum teams. Embraces cross-cultural agility.

Flexible, willing to “go the extra mile” while at the same time being an agile and fast learner

Result oriented with strong self-management skills

Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment

Able to stay calm, friendly, a team player, and able to demonstrate good composure when handling complicated problems

High level of ownership

Strong algorithmic and analytical skills and self-initiative to learn new methodologies and techniques

Effective and Clear Communicator, asking right questions, actively listen and ability to collect right inputs

Reporting and Ownership

Reports to Engineering Manager.

At Esko, a Veralto Company, innovation comes in every color and never in the same package. Join Esko and see how diversity of people and thought fuels a career journey like no other. Create unique technology solutions for the packaging value chain, bring new ideas to life, make and influence decisions, and experience career growth, rewards, and recognition in our global Packaging & Color organizations.

Esko is proud to be a Product Quality & Innovation company in Veralto (NYSE: VLTO). Imagine a world where everyone has access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. That is the tomorrow Veralto is creating today. Veralto is a $5B global leader in essential technology solutions made up of over 16,000 associates across our Water Quality and Product Identification segments all united by a powerful purpose: Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources.

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At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

Unsolicited Assistance

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Veralto companies, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Veralto and its companies. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Veralto and its companies because of the unsolicited referral.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve.Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

Unsolicited Assistance

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Veralto companies, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Veralto and its companies. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Veralto and its companies because of the unsolicited referral.