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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 15 years of related experience or a Ph.D. with 14 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 Ability to write clean, concise, understandable code 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. Technical Stack - Full Stack - Node Js, Kubernetes. ## Description 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., 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. Roles & Responsibilities :- Contribute to product initiatives across products Work on architecture, design & development of complex features/problems in different products based on Node Js, Kubernetes- Full stack Engineering role. Prepare well defined & articulated cloud strategy for all products & present to leadership team. 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. 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