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# Principal Software Engineer- Engineering Director- Frontend

- **Company:** The Testing Site
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Application Frameworks, Dependency Injection, Gradle, Software Engineering, ReactJS, Swift (Programming Language), Kotlin, Production Code, React Native, Front End Software Development, Programming Languages
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_5768d56da7639e10cadff63a58000d73

## About the Role

* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
 * Extensive experience with multiple front-end languages (React, React Native, Kotlin, Swift).
 * A deep understanding of cross-platform and modularized app development.
 * Strong experience writing clean, testable, high-quality code and architecting highly scalable systems in production.
 * Solid understanding of governance for open-source frameworks.
 * Understanding of dependency injection frameworks (pnpm, Carthage, Gradle).
 * Understanding of security frameworks / standards.
 * Experience in all the stages of software development lifecycle (requirements, design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release and support).
 * Experience with building quality automated test suites at all levels.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 * A desire to solve hard problems
 * A desire to teach others and share knowledge. We aren't looking for hero developers,more for team players.We want you to coach other team members on design principles, practices, and implementation patterns.
 * Comfortable in uncharted waters. We are building something new. Things change quickly. We need you to learn technologies and patterns quickly.

## Description

* Creates complex and scalable coding frameworks using appropriate software design frameworks
 * Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
 * Advises cross-functional teams on technological matters within your domain of expertise
 * Serves as the function's go-to subject matter expert
 * Contributes to the development of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
 * Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions
 * Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams
 * Champions the firm's culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect